Today marks the day I start on 2* officially, since today was officially my last AP Test (that I'm gonna bother to study for. After this I only have Spanish Lit and I'm done, but I'm really not worrying about that at all).

I started working on the sprites for the spheres, and I gotta tell ya, they're taking a lot longer than I expected. I mean, they're just random orb buttons that you find anywhere in the 'net, but for some reason I struggled a bit with the tutorial and the recolors of the same orb with the different directional spheres I'm using for the game are definitely taking longer than I want. I've only got the vertical, horizontal and both diagonals of both orbs. That leaves me with about 9 more orbs I need to make. Yuck. Luckily, I'll get those done later.

I'll be making a checklist that I'll be adding to/crossing out to hopefully let me see some more progress. It might work out for me, it might not. I'm just experimenting at this stage. As for the actual game, I'm strongly considering taking out the sphere from the previous * game that spews out stars in random directions, because all too often there were several other spheres in close proximity to that one, and out of pure randomness none of them get hit and you just wasted a click. I dunno. I feel it's putting too much emphasis on luck when I don't want it to.

Another thing I've been thinking about is the title. Which title do you guys like better? "2*" or "**"? My sister suggested **, which I didn't think about but I think it's a possible candidate. The only thing is that ** feels too similar and people may not be able to tell the difference quickly.

So yeah, today it all starts. We'll see how it turns out from here.