New Website in the Works

Well it certainly has been tough setting aside enough time to blog.  It's been the farthest thing from my mind lately!  Lot's has happened over the past few months, I've traveled, I've loved, I've lived, I've climbed mountains and well... it's pretty hard to top climbing mountains while staying moderately truthful about my past few months.

Anyway, I'm working on a new website, full with registration capabilities, some fancy JQueryUI modals, and all sorts of goodies.

It's still a LONG way out, I need to link up some MYSql Databases to store users in, build in some anti-spam functions (thinking about doing this custom, captcha is ever so annoying), and then actually add in all of the CONTENT for the website.

Right now I have the bones of it up.  It's going to use JQuery to dynamically load the html into the main page, so there's really just 1 main page that will be updated.

Here's a sneak peak at what it's looking like so far:

I'm definitely going for a sleeker look but I'll add some flair to it later and spiffy it up a bit.

Once the website is finished and up, I'll probably start working on my next game.  I'll likely just release a tower defense for android/iOS in the vein of SBX: Invasion, but that's a LONG ways out and who knows what will change in the meantime.

Anyway, I've got work in the morning so I should probably get some sleep.

Cheers!

~Jason

Vacation! Life and some loose ideas for next projects.

So first things first, I ended up canning my review of ESO.  I got partway through and lately I've stopped  playing so it hindered my research into giving a good quality review of the game.  The game is good, but I've been busy and I'm honestly just looking for a more sandbox style MMO.  We'll see if EQ:Next is ballsy enough to be a true sandbox world that gives the player unparalleled freedom to be the type of player they want to.

Anyway, at the moment I'm on vacation out in the mountains of Colorado, which is giving me some time to catch up on my blog and relax a bit.  My consulting projects at work are ramping up quickly and I have 3 development projects as well so I've been extremely busy and tanked out during the week, and thus haven't spent any time working on my own projects.

I do have a few ideas I've been knocking around, first is rebuilding my website to be a more solid website and include a database of users to register with my website.  I do need to get a better version of Visual Studio on my home machine, but likely I'll rebuild the website in C#.NET ASPX pages with a couple html pages sitting on the front end.

I want to make my website a very interactive, fun place for people to go to and check out my projects.  So that's the first task I need to start working on.  The second is my next game project, which will likely be a mobile / web project.  I'm thinking of making either a traditional Tower Defense in the SBX Universe, or possibly combining Tower Defense with an RTS/MOBA style game.  When I say MOBA I mean imagine League of Legends without any champions where you build your towers and spawners and the "minions" have automated AI based on the type of ships you build.  Just a loose idea, I'd have to iterate on it a bit to get a solid working plan, and I might release a traditional TD first and then make that style of game after.

These are just some of the ideas and plans I have at the  moment.  My programming knowledge in C# .NET has been improving quite rapidly as I have 3 projects that are entirely in C# or use C# as the web application back end language, so I've had lots of opportunities to learn in that area.  Next will be using Java and Eclipse as I'm less comfortable with those compared to VStudio  and C#.

That's it for now, I know it's been a while since I've posted.  I'll likely do a 4th of July Sale on Indie Game Stand so stay tuned for that!

Auf wiedersehen,
Jace