projects
Given my love of videogames it should come as no surprise that I’m working on a game of my own. However, rather than spend years learning how program, create and animate characters, and wheel and deal publishers… I’m creating a board game with the help of a friend. At the moment we’re just putting the finishing touches up on a first pass.
The idea is to spend a few months hammering out gameplay issues, a few more making sure the game is fun, and finally sending out copies to people we know so they can play the game.
Then when we’re sure we have something cool on our hands we’re going to get copies of the game professionally printed up. Where it goes from there depends on how fun a game we manage to create.
With the release of Halo 3 millions of videogame fans now have the power to not only create new gametype variations, map layouts, and replay clips… they can share them with fellow players! And without having to hassle with creating distribution files, or hosting said files.
I’ve been tinkering around with various maps and gametypes since Halo 3 came out. Thus far I’m loving the ability load up any map and move things like weapons and vehicles around. Just last night I was playing a variant of Foundry created by Bungie Studios
Yet, my opponent and I both felt the Rocket Launcher had no place being in the middle of the map. In other games this would mean we’d have to just make honor rules not to use it, but not in Halo 3. A few clicks and it was gone forever.
See what I’ve been working on here: Zondaro’s Halo 3 File Share
This is my first “novel.” What sort of English major would I be if there wasn’t a novel I spent decades working on? In my case I want to explore what it is that makes us human. Are we to be found in the edges of our existence or the core of our beliefs? Every human alive today has limits… but what if one of us did not? I believe then we would know. This is what my story is going to be about. What happens when the limits that define our existence are removed. Will the temptation to give in to personal decadence overtake the desire to do good things?
As of right now I have the story outlined, the characters fleshed out, but very little actually written. Chalk it up to a desire to write the great American novel the first time out of the gate.