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these days im finding it harder and harder to write posts, can never think of what to say or what to talk about. today its the same, open flock’s post editor, just left it sat there with an empty textbox.

sometime in the future (6 hours or so) …

recently iv been changing my life around abit, trying to improve myself!! iv stopped smoking cigarettes, started running, redesigned my blog, renewed some old projects like firemint, started game development and iv started studying AS / A2 advanced maths from a few textbooks. the aim is to make myself better, and to keep improving my knowledge. w00t w00t!

in the game development area i’ve been thinking about some ideas for iphone games. after watching my flatmate play quake (from cydia) i realised a first person shooter really doesn’t work on the iphone. instead a time crisis game style could work quite nicely, since the user doesn’t need to control the movement of the character (as in moving around a map not aiming). time crisis works by moving the user’s character to points around a map, at each point the user can crouch behind an object and fire at a group of enemies. its generally a multiplayer arcade game that uses a gun as a controller, on the iphone the accelerometers could be used to move the cross hair to shoot enemies, a touch on the screen could simply toggle the crouch mode / change weapon.

my second idea is a bit different, simple game where the user controls a spaceship and can move around a 3d environment to shoot down enemies. the accelerometers being used to control movement, touch on the screen controls shooting and weapons. after i told beef, he had the geeky idea to make it star wars themed, user flies an x-wing star fighter and shoots down tie fighters.

might start one of the ideas as an open source project, stick it in cydia or maybe app store depending on how it goes.

on a different note, last night i decided to add multiple mint support to firemint v2. amazingly it wasn’t too much of pain to implement, xD

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