Thursday, February 17, 2011

Repellant

I have put Sever on hold. Right now, with my rusty skills, Sever is a little too much...at least with how complex it was two and a half years ago. I could pick it back up from scratch, but that would be discouraging, so I decided to start a different game from scratch and build up my game-making skills from that, and then use those skills to give me a head-start on Sever when I eventually come back to it.

The new game is called (for now) Repellant. It's not your typical sidescroller. There's no jumping on your enemies' heads or shooting them with a gun. The gameplay introduces an element that resembles a Jedi's telekinesis. You use it to levitate, push, pull, etc. The challenge for me in this game is creating a working physics engine. Read about it here.

Now, don't think I've given up on Sever. I am still excited about Sever, but I want it to be good. Therefore, I need to be a good programmer. I need to know what I am doing, and I can learn that by creating Repellant.

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