Moonpod Dev Diary – June

By: Derek Yu

On: June 1st, 2006

Moonpod’s got another development diary up. This one is about the special effects in Mr. Robot and also storing data in games using XML. No sign of War Angels for a while… what’s going on with it?

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fartles

doesn’t take much digging to find out about War Angels. two posts from the board

http://www.moonpod.com/board/viewforum.php?f=18

“Hi there, I’ve been away for a bit less than a month unfortunately, but I did a full days work on the game yesterday and should be fully into it shortly. I’ve thought out alot of cool developments whil I was away and I’ll be updating everyone about them shortly when I’ve implemented them Very Happy Also I’ve updated the status on the first post there, I should have been doing that more often but I kind of forgot about it.”

“Problem with deadlines is I tend to work by feel, and I learn so much stuff during the course of development it’s really difficult to predict where it’s going next. The game now compared to where it was a year ago (when I set that release date) is so much better and different than I thought it would be.

Last month I think I finally got on top of it and had a game, or the beginnings of a game that worked, was fun and I understood the direction of completely. Now I just have to finish it. I’m aiming for a good few months before the end of the year now,”
http://www.moonpod.com/ Fost

Yeah Hamish has been overwhelmed recently by external influences, but I know he’s raring to get back on top of things.

I always think I have it tough with Mr. Robot work, but at least I’m working with a programmer. Hamish does the art AND the programming!
http://www.moonpod.com/ Fost

Oh, and btw: Welcome Back TigSource! we missed you! (or should that be ‘Yu’ :) )