Take a look at GameSpy’s list here:   Top 10 PC Games We’d Like to See Remastered

Can you guess which game is #1?

I’ve been working on my own website/portfolio so no work done on SC2 this week but I did want to write an update about the state of things.

After that awesome XNA announcement I was feeling a little sad all my work would be left out of  the Community Arcade coolness.  So I was going to go all emo on this update like, wheres this project going, is it worth finishing this straight port?

Well as a straight port, no it just isn’t really worth it.  If it was a straight port, you might as well just play the original.  However if there were cool features, say more rotation angles, support for four players or multiple AIs, that would start to sound more interesting. 

So I guess that’ll be the direction the port will probably be headed.  I would eventually like to start another game which I could submit to Community Arcade service but since I dont have any real ideas on what it would be, I’ll continue working on XNA SC2.

However, as I mentioned at the beginning, I have a website/portfolio that needs updating so that is what I’m focusing on right now.  I’ll post an update when its finished 

Some great news came out for XNA today!  I can’t wait til everybody is sharing their games over Xbox Live 

Microsoft Announces Community Arcade

Xbox Live Community Games FAQ

Q: So I can make clones of games already on Xbox LIVE Arcade or somewhere else?
A: Not any more than you can make copies of Halo 3.   When you submit a game you agree that you own all the rights to the materials in your game.  If you don’t, then don’t submit the game.

Unfortunately I guess that would prevent me from submitting this port but hm..  Maybe I’ll just have to write a new game eh?

Plenty of new stuff since last update:

1. Lots of code cleanup
2. Fixed menu input code
3. Finished up the Human point defence (Humans complete!)
4. Vux & Chmmr lasers
5. Vux limpets  (Vux is complete!)
6. Thraddash burner (Thraddash complete!)
7. Utwig weapon
8. Shofixti weapon
9. Pkunk primary & secondary  (no respawning yet)
10. Spathi primary & secondary  (Spathi complete!)
11. Chenjesu primary

So thats pretty good right?  Got lots of spare time again, so I can probably get alot of the ships completed in the next while.

Just uploaded a new video update of me fighting the AI. No more twitchy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZfFRPoQAAE

Embedding the vid breaks my page format

Well that was a fun trip, had a great time in CA.  Now time for an update!

Heres what I did since getting back

1. Those little impact explosions from Arilou laser
2. annnndd..  selection screen fades to black after starting the melee mode  : P

I think its time for a new video, the old twitchy AI one is bugging me.