I like it! Abducting sounds like fun.

Whens your first demo? I wanna play.

Elite in 2D, heh. Looks interesting, but what is the GTA part?

Btw. Noticed your last name. Do you have relatives in Denmark?

Mind you, I've not played elite for more than 15 minutes (and was only able to dock with some random thingamajig...) so most of my open ended ideas come from games like GTA. There will likely be different orgs that you can take jobs/missions from to earn money, status, and other rewards; but helping one org might make it's competitors like you a little less, depending on what business you're in, that might make other orgs not want to hire you (In GTA 2 there are three rival gangs with similar dynamics, and in a badass game called mercenaries, there are a couple of factions that you can side with, or against...) but not all business will be like this...

You'll also get some kind of fame meter that goes up the more famous you get and a lawful/unlawful meter telling how wanted you are or arn't... There might be a possibility to be above the law if you're that 1337...

Ok. If remember correctly playing Frontier, also quite badly, you get a rank there too, though just with the police. I thought maybe you'd be able to steal other people's ships?

If you're asking me, I'd like to make something like Homeworld clone. I've actually some idea: few ship designs, design of one faction (it will be probably all about Terrans) - they are supposed to be some crossover between Colonials in BSG and Terrans from StarCraft. The only problem now seems to be actually do the models (though I have one untextured) and load/render them. After that I'd be able to work on 3d space RTS.

Every time I try to start writing a game I write only around 2000-5000 lines of game engine code. All of the sudden I then think of something else and the thing I am currently working on becomes non-appealing to me so I quit and work on the next project. I started out by wanting to make a super mario 3 clone with different new levels. I then moved on to making a zelda / secret of mana type game. I finished a tile map editor for it but then became interested in 3D and learned opengl because I had the same idea for a babylon 5 game mentioned above, I even have some babylon 5 space ship models I made saved in case I want to restart it. I then switched back to 2D an wanted to make hexagon strategy game like panzer general but set in the middle ages. I am now taking the story I developed for the zelda / secret of mana 2d game and I want to make it into a 3D game because the terrain of the two countries in my story is an important part of the story.

VF: looks great, we needs a demo!!!

I like the idea of a top down Elite, a lot. Only I would make the planet surface part 2d top down like an early final fantasy or something. Ahh yes, another art intensive idea. I hate those.

This quote makes me happy and fills me with hope that Cry Havok and maybe even <gasp> Fenix Blade (full version) may see the light of day? Do we dare to hope?

I have been working about an hour, and have almost finished a Pong clone.

Definently, I think I got almost 15-20 projects lying around waiting to be completed. Ok, some are just ideas that haven't been fleshed out that much. But I think at least half of them are projects that I've worked on abandoned and worked on again. I never truly abondon a projects... I just let it... uhm... rest .

I've become more disciplined through the years though. I think it's a good thing to force yourself to do the not so fun stuff once in a while just to get something done. As long as you don't totally kill your enthusiasm.

EDIT:

Again I ask you Michael, do you have roots in Denmark? Not to be nosy, if you don't want to answer that's quite alright. It's just that Jensen is a really common name here.

Ugh! I went looking through old pictures and I found screenshots of Barry's Bash 2. They look awesome! I can't wait to get working on it again!

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so all you have to do is keep some screenshots lying around and you'll eventually want to get back working on your game! Here's one I found from another unfinshed project Dreamscar:

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How long did it take you to finish the game? It's looks great. I like the backgrounds in particular.

At what point did you consider it finished?

It's supposed to be a notification that it's going to compensate for a non-72-hz refresh monitor. But instead it just looks like an error screen that never stops loading. Just hit the any key. It still needs a lot of work, including that. And for some reason if there are any other apps running in the background then the game plays really fast.

Try it again

Nice Music