Current mood:

energetic

Closer
During the last couple of weeks work has continued on Ruiner in quite the favorable manor.

The latest internal build will be wrapped up by the end of this week.  I got 80% of the goals achieved for it.  There are still about 5 or 6 non animated related things I wanted in it.  But that isn't too bad considering just how much was added.  We also got fully support for hand to hand combat which really opens the door in the realm of combat.  I won't even think of starting ADoom till after those 5 or 6 things are done.  I also might start mapping again very soon...

We got two more team members, both animators.  I really hope they both work out.  If so, we could definitely get this mod out this year.  If they work out really well, I could get back into mapping, which would guarantee this mod does get released this year.

The Ruiner website was also updated twice.  First was a big help wanted ad and then a media update showing 8 enemies from the game.  We did really good on our mod db page for Ruiner.  It got up into the top 10 popular mods for the weekend.  We've been higher ranked before, but the amount of visitors doubled our last big update.  So far our visitor amount has increased constantly since the fall which is great.   I can't wait to see how things go when we do our next first true in game trailer.  I will be doing this trailer myself this time around because its mostly in game footage.  I need to be careful I only show the content that is worth showing at this point.  I think once this trailer is shown, things are really going to sky rocket for Ruiner.  Its one thing to list features for a game, it is another to actually show them.