Over the week I’ve been looking around at my games, the ones released, the ones offline etc and I’ve noticed something I find fascinating. There are a lot of mini games as part of my games. It would not take all that much to make separate little mini games say in flash and add them to a site for people to play as stand alone games. So I’ve begun another of those lists I always make, and will be adding idea’s for those mini games onto it.

While doing that I plan to learn more about flash and maybe even see if I can add a bit of flash to my existing games, its not as if in this world today as it stands no one has ever used flash, if it blends into the sites no one would know, or even notice if they have little experience of this stuff, and it would allow for a lot more to be added to the gaming experience.

Now I understand that some brands of mobile phone would probably find this sort of thing difficult to run due to not supporting flash, but i have thought about that a little and think that they have to give in sometime. There is far too much flash stuff around for them to not follow along. Even the ‘A’ company must realise that at some point, not mentioning names as they have a tendency to sue.

So that’s the plan I have for ZeroShadow for now, will post more about it as things unfold.

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As the days go on I have tons and tons of ideas, I have an ideas book, I write them down, look back later when I want to work on something new and pick up the good ones. This for me is the best way to do this stuff, no matter how stupid the idea may be, related to what I’m working on, something I have worked on, or have no intention ever of working on, I write it down, because one day it may be something useful.

I don’t ever look around to see if anyone else has already thought of it. It never occurred to me to do so, it just seems to me to be my idea. The world seems to think that they own ideas. You hear stories everywhere about someone taking someone else to court for stealing their idea. I don’t know if I agree that any of my idea’s are anything different to what anyone else could come up with.

I’ve had ideas in my book for 4 years or more, then someone will mail me telling me their idea for something and I see I came up with it years ago. So if I then go out and develop that idea, make it real, does that make it theirs or mine. Ideas are things everyone has, I don’t see how anyone can think that they own it exclusively ever.

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Another open source 3d engine. This one looks like its quite popular amongst developers. The recently released game called Torchlight used it apparently, which is even more interesting, as I really liked that game.

I forgot to mention yesterday, whenever I post one of these links to a site, please remember that to get to them you simply click on the image of the site and it will take you there.

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This is an open sourced realtime 3D engine written in C++ and is available for .NET languages.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I do plan to do so. I have idea’s to create my own RTS games and rather than re-inventing the wheel and wasting time coming up with my own 3D engine I’ve been looking around to see what there is available in the open source world.

I’ll post more links if and when I find them this week.

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Its the thing to do these days to create an iphone or android app, but which system is best. Should I create an iphone app wait the long time it takes for acceptance by Apple and then have my app buried amongst the hundreds of thousands of other apps. Or go the open source route and develop for the android, but only have a few people around to actually use the app.

I’m not a Mac owner so it looks like for me the Android low user base version is the one for me for now, considering I have zero budget to get a Mac. So over the next weeks I will be setting up the tools needed to start developing an android app. See how things go. A new gaming platform for me to try out.

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