Big big "IRL job" projects right now... Clients like to hold onto stuff until mid-January before they send off work to translators. So naturally, after almost a month of nearly complete silence and shivering at the idea that maybe my clients found new, cheaper, better translators, enough work has come in in the past week for me to survive until summer!! Did I mention working from home is "da bomb?"
Anyway... Since the last post, I began implementing a fixed-point coordinate system with a 2D vector class made up of interesting, but nevertheless shamelessly stolen bit-twiddling hacks. Still struggling a bit with complete avoidance of floats, and also wondering if it's even worth it. That's about it.
I also entered business talks with ... my sister. She wants to create a simple iPhone/iPad game starring dragons. She's in the middle of her second arts degree, and her boyfriend is a skilled pixel artist for an actual game studio in Montreal, so I'm pretty excited to see what they'll come up with.
My brother will also be joining the team. He's in his second semester of Computer Science, and still hasn't had a single programming class... So he won't be able to help me much with the coding yet, but I think he'll make a pretty good level designer and music guy in the meantime.
Official first meeting is set for next week!
They said they weren't in it for the money -- they "just want something to put in their portfolio" ... Hah! Reading that made me angry. You have pure, unlimited artistic talent at your fingertips. You work a minimum wage part-time job while studying full time... And you want to pay Apple a license to distribute an App Store game ... NOT FOR THE MONEY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?
That game better sell zillions of copies. I don't care if you're my sister, my brother... I will SLAP you in your face if you even suggest distributing it for free. But not my brother-in-law-to-be. That guy could probably kick my ass.
