It seems that I'm really starting to enjoy game design again. I haven't really worked on GameGame in the past week due to college but I did restart work on OpenPokemon V2.

Until now, OPV2 was just a dialog box system and some pokemon data scripts. But in a matter of hours I managed to come up with a much nicer version of my array/grid based overworld system that has walking/running, doors, solid objects and solid npcs that can randomly walk around. It's also built to support every feature I could think of needing. Not impressive considering it can be done easily with collisions, but I'm happy with it. I still haven't decided whether OPV2 will be open source like OPV1, I'll need to change the engine name if it isn't =p

Obviously a generic movement/dialog engine has uses outside of Pokemon and last night I came up with another game idea that can use it. As for OPV2 itself, I'm hoping to make a somewhat unique pokemon game set in the orange islands. But I'm not too motivated to make fan games so who knows if I will make it. Even if I don't, I do hope to make my own monster battling game someday.

OPV2 test room with debug mode on. The ? mark means that you can talk to or examine whatever is there, so I'm the character without a ? Once you let them trap you in that room it is really hard to get back out =p

I'm not going to reveal too much about my new game idea now. In fact, all I'm really going to say is that it is a 64d game and that you don't need to worry about whether or not you will be in it. Since I've already got the start of an engine I don't think it will take me too long to make once I start programming, so hopefully I will get a demo out in a reasonable amount of time.

I think I will limit myself to 3 active GM projects (plus PT) at once, maybe once I finish one of these I will start work on another one of my older games =o