Archived News

July 30, 2005

Tasks complete:

• most of the positive status FX
• deck shuffling (init and when you run out of cards)
• the first batch of the sound FX
• variable usage and cooldown times
• screen scrolling and timer functions
• warning and error messages

July 22, 2005

Implemented a delay after using a card. This is so that you may see what your opponent is about to use. Also did boosting effects and mouse wheel selection of cards.

July 9, 2005

Coins have been implemented, and displaying cards on the screen also. One basic card has been done (Power). Going on vacation for a week+, so no updates for a while.

July 5, 2005

Class Enemy and Shot are finished, and some basic sound FX are complete. Basic collision detection is implemented too. Next up is working on the items (coins) that are picked up.

June 29, 2005

Class Player has been implemented, and also title screen music and basic player movement are complete.

June 23, 2005

The 1st pass of the player select screen, deck select screen, and opponent select screen are done.

June 19, 2005

Finished the title screen and most of the vehicle select screen for Zirconia 2: Battle.

June 14, 2005

Our site has been redesigned, we have a new look! Title and vehicle select screen are being worked on for Zirconia 2: Battle.

June 10, 2005

Finally decided on a game engine to use: HGE. It pretty much has everything necessary for building a 2D game (even sound!).

May 23, 2005

After lots of toying around with ideas, I've decided on my next project. It will be a 2D shooter in the style of Zirconia 2, but it be a 'vs.' game, where you indirectly battle a computer opponent.

May 15, 2005

Quixotic Mayhem version 1.0 released! Try to beat all the minigames!

May 7, 2005

More playtesting and difficulty tweaking for Quixotic Mayhem.

Apr 17, 2005

About finished with 'polishing'. There is a new font and the squares look better now.

Apr 6, 2005

All mini-games of Quixotic Mayhem complete. Now onto the polishing...

Mar 10, 2005

On spring break here, so just doing some easy stuff like working on the mini-game title screens for Quixotic Mayhem.

Mar 3, 2005

Act 2 mini-games are complete. Gonna release a beta version.

Feb 25, 2005

Lots of content population being done for Quixotic Mayhem. 250 picto-word puzzles and 800 musix zone questions added.

Feb 16, 2005

Loading and saving of games complete. Decided on 5 save slots.

Feb 12, 2005

Act 1 mini-games complete.

Jan 26, 2005

Completion of instruction screen and 1st mini-game.

Jan 16, 2005

Decided on VB.NET for next project. Would've liked to use DirectX but that didn't turn out so good. Too many unidentifyable errors were being received.

Jan 5, 2005

My next project will be a 60+ mini-game collection! These mini-games will have no relation to each other... In one, you could be swatting flies; in another, you could be trying to unscramble a word! It will be named Quixotic Mayhem.