I’d say that things are going to end up well for the game! The game engine itself is shaping up very well too! I haven’t seen the build ina  while, but the core gameplay looks like it’s nearly complete. I really think the game will be awesome AND will come out this year! Cross your fingers!

• Started planning a possible XBox Indie game called Stray Dog Strut. it probably won’t get made until I have more than one other person wanting to seriously work on it. The design neds more work anyways.
• Going to work on a game this weekend anyways. It will be with Brotha Kyo who’s the only Bad Enough Dude to work on a game with me this weekend.
• I’ll be in Tampa this Sunday and Monday. Maybe Tuesday? Only those who read this website and my Twitter will know.
• I saw Dean Johnson talk the other day. He went to Full Sail like I did and said a bunch of things I say to students every month about how to be successful. Hopefully, those who ignore me have listened to him because he works at Microsoft.
• A lot of my students no little about the  8-bit or 16-bit era. I told them to play NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis games this weekend.
• Seriously, none of the students in my class know about Double Dragon? I thought this was a school for people who want to make games.
• I set up a blog for the Full Sail University Propeller Anime Club.
• Working on converting all the OGL labs to work with Richard’s new GLTools library. So far, so good.

I’ll have more detailed updates next week! But I must say, I dig the bullet points!

I have talked about my friend Mike “Brotha Kyo”  Burgess on this website before when it comes to working conventions. He has been an awesome friend over the years and I would do what I can to help him. For those who don’t know, he is an independent game developer who makes games whenever he can. His latest game is Banzai Pecan, a post-apocalyptic side scroller beat ‘em up in the vein of Kung-Fu. The title heroine fights for love and justice in an attempt to rescue her kidnapped boyfriend. The game has some cool things going for it with parries, combos, and high impact attacks that send opponents flying. It also has some great character artwork as you can see above.

The problem is that Brotha Kyo is essentially doing a lot of the work on his own; code, art, and music. He needs additional background and sprite artists to help him complete the game. Right now, the backgrounds you see are placeholders. Not only that, he needs some additional female vocal talent for his all-female cast of characters. Several characters are taken care of, but more help is needed.

I’ve played an earlier build of the game and it has a lot of potential. If you dare call yourself a game artist and are looking for some work, then do what you can to help Banzai Pecan finished. You can get in touch with Brotha Kyo through Banzai Pecan’s development blog here.