Richard’s Personal Blog

Having multiple blogs is difficult. Sometimes when writing something on one, I realize that it belongs more on another. Often I end up with lots of partial blog entries written, sometimes on the blogs themselves, on our family wiki, or in a text file sitting on one of my many computers. December (right around the corner) makes things worse as it’s just plain busier, not to mention the then-added pressure of ensuring that the Santa blog gets updated daily.

About a week and a half ago, I started working on a web-based, turn-based game similar to Urban Dead, but with a wider scope, much larger realm, added humor, and less predictability. Kind of an Urban Dead meets Doctor Who in Xanth as told by the Hitchhiker’s Guide. Why I do these things to myself, I am not sure. I’m still in the database schema design phase, one of the very few projects I’ve started at the bottom tier first. A decision made, in this case, by the fact that I’m going to rely heavily on auto-generated code derived from the schema and table contents. If nothing else, it’s a really good development exercise, I might earn at least $5 through donations, and it could someday look interesting on a resume.

I am really looking forward to the sniper rifle and the grenade launcher. *evil snicker*

This entry was posted on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 12:12 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.