About three months ago my mom passed away, she drowned in a lake. To make a long story short, they (the police) might not ever find her body. This has slown down my production of my game, not that it was really going very fast to begin with.


I do have enough books that I can get started. Its just that I have been dabbling in this and that without much focus, therefore I dont have much to show (which I link with a lack of motivation to work on it). I am now going to build each component until its done rather then skipping from subject to subject...


I am starting to make a particle system. I am going to base it off of these sources...

http://www.drunkenhyena.com/pages/projects/d3d8/d3d_lesson9.php
https://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1043.asp
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20040728/latta_02.shtml