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Hi friends,

Beta testing tomorrow for the platformer begins tomorrow.  The beta will be hosted on the Armor Blog for a very short time starting at 1 pm Pacific on 1/24/09.  I’ll link to it here once it goes live.  If time zones baffle you check here.

There is no need to sign up .  Just show up and give your feedback.

The game itself should release very shortly after… this beta is mostly to fine-tune the engine and make it a swell release.

Tally ho!

-J

This year I went to Shelton, WA for Christmas.  It was the first Christmas away from the family so it was quite a change; especially when it’s with your future in-laws!  Carlie and I were up in the Seattle area for about five days.  A lot of Carlie’s family was there (even Roo was there!).  Anyway, the reason I bring up this terribly cold weather (it was in the 20′s to 30′s while we were there) because this week in Irvine it’s going to be about 80-90F!  Quite the opposite I what I expect for Winter.   Today was already ridiculously hot and this entire week the hot spell will continue.  I’m trying to get as much sunlight as I can while I’m working by opening up the windows; there’s no knowing how much longer this will last.

While I’m inside avoiding the heat I’m in the middle of a few games.  On the Xbox360 I’m playing Prince of Persia.  I have to say… it’s a pretty good game.  While I did get an achievement just for starting the game it’s ridiculous moments are far surpassed by the fluid control and awesome gameplay.  It’s probably what Mirror’s Edge should have had more of… less fighty-fighty and more climby-climby.

I’m also playing Chrono Trigger DS.  Chrono Trigger is one of my favourite games ever and having it on the DS is definitely a treat.  It also joins the ranks of being one of the only games I own multiple copies of (man it’s a great game). 

I have also been playing LittleBigPlanet with Carlie.  She especially liked the wedding level in which she could wear a wedding dress on her sackgirl (I wore a lion costume, I know it wasn’t appropriate but it was awesome).

At work I’m currently working on two projects: 1 is the platformer influenced by my most FAVOURITE game of all time (guess which!) and the other is that RPG I’ve been working on.  The RPG artwork is 90% finished by Mike (The Swain) and he’s doing a phenomenal job.  I’ll post artwork soon!  The platformer is slated for Friday and the RPG is slated for the end of the month.  So two games this January if all goes according to plan.

On the website I have been polishing things up.  Some issues included game pages not working and redirects not reaching their final destinations.  The forums are still waiting to be transported but so far the forum speed has picked up with it being separate from the main site.  I might just keep it there FOREVER (or not, it sounds easier to me ).

Everyone have a good evening! -John