So I have taken a stand against being completely useless for at least a short while and have decided (with Rob’s insistence) to start my next game this Tuesday. I took the better part of today to set up my new programming environment on my Desktop machine which runs Ubuntu Linux. Having it all set up on this computer will (I hope) help me to be more productive when I sit here with nothing to do.

My goal is to have this game done by the campout in mid-August so that I can present the game to all of my drunken friends and we can all suffer in the game’s badness.

It’s going to be a port of the Atari 2600 game, Sneak ‘n Peek. It’s a basic game of hide and seek, with the added benefit of forcing the second player to ACTUALLY close their eyes while you go and hide your character in one of ~20 available hiding locations around a house.

I’m going to probably change the setting of the game from the boring house used in the 2600 version. Hiding in the floor? Give me a break. I’m going to try to at LEAST make it a little more realistic, with actual items to hide behind, all while updating the graphics to NES standards, so it doesn’t look like the sprites are walking around with huge erections the entire time.

Some things I have in mind to spruce things up a little are:

Character select screen
Possible 4-player action
Music that doesn’t sound like ass
Graphics that don’t look like ass

Anyway. If you have any ideas, post them this way. And if you’re reading this, thanks for stopping by. I apologize that there hasn’t been much going on here. I couldn’t tackle the room compression for Leisure Suit, so it’s now officially on the back burner.

This is the era of SNEAK N PEEK!