Time flies, summer is here and we've had a couple of really nice days. Since Tina has started working again my new boss keeps me very busy (no not a new boss in T.W.T.P.B. but my one y.o. son William). It's really sweet spending warm lazy summer days with my fav guy, bathing, taking walks, playing in the back yard.

As you probably have seen I have managed to get some long awaited site updates online, unfortunately T.W.T.P.B. has been somewhat on the back burner the last week. I'm really hoping to get a new level out there on friday though. Though it seems as no one has yet to beat the last level :)

T.W.T.P.B. has become quite a hard little puppy to beat, and we have still four more levels to go! Though maybe they will not all be hard(er). I'm tinking of making level 7 more of a bonus level, but we'll see how things develop.

As of late I have been toying with the idea of entering T.W.T.P.B. to the IGF Main Competition. But I don't know... also it costs $95... what do you think?

Since there was no iteration release last friday I'd thought I'd give some information on what's up with T.W.T.P.B. The project is very much alive and kicking.

The last week has been somewhat crazy. The latest release of T.W.T.P.B. was very well recieved by the press and we got a massive amount of traffic to these pages.

Development of T.W.T.P.B. has unfortunately been quite slow the last week. Regular life has taken its toll... but we'll set full speed ahead to the release on friday!

During the last few days we have gone official with T.W.T.P.B. and the response has been very good. It seems as the shoot 'em up community is alive and kicking.

The release of iteration 2 of TWTPB is enclosing, and I'm working like a madman to get the changes I want included up and running. You can look forward to new enemies and attack waves. This iteration is also the first one where the levels are scripted, well there will probably only be one level worth talking about.

Anyways much work has gone into moving from random gameplay to scripted, and building the editors for that. User friendly ingame editors are paramount to productivity! It is also quite a funny thing to shift more and more time towards playing the game and editing.

Since my post dreamhack shakes are over now I have slowly started working on TWTPB again. The main work is in making the enemies totally "scripted" and not random based. I think this is the way to go if we are to achieve the skill based gameplay we're looking for.

It's a lot of work since this requires building an editor and also making the game fun and challenging. As usual it will be an iterative process, but I'd really like to have at least a few minutes of good gameplay in the next release.

As you may know I have managed to get some work done on TWTPB even when I was not hookec up to the net. We are working on the first iteration on TWTPB and the main changes will be to mix 2d and 3d graphics.

I'm currently working on the first boss enemy in twtpb. A boss enemy will mark the end of the stage and you have to defeat the boss to progress. In other words it works like a normal old school shooter :)

The boss will be made up of several smaller parts that can break up and move as individual enemies, and when they combine they will fire something more elaborate than a normal bullet. I think this can be pretty neat...

So today I finished the challenge of coding game in eight effective hours.