Going To PAX East Again

Chad Weisshaar and I are going to PAX East this year. All of our multi-touch games have been updated, and we made a new prototype game that we're hoping to show off. (The hope is with the WiFi situation.) If you're going to be there, look for the Mesa Mundi booth.

We started a new web site, Dark Infinity Software. That's where we'll be releasing our freeware game Fire Platoon.

"Fire Platoon" was built with the new T2D with a few modifications of our own. We've integrated a mongoose web server, the Awesomium web-rendering engine, FTGL font rendering, a QR Code Generator, libraries for additional file formats, and a lightweight javascript library for websocket communication to T2D scripts. You can watch a video of it below.

The exciting thing about this engine is that we can build these easy-to-connect-to, real-time board games. (They don't have to be real-time, but it's still relatively easy.) Our first idea is to modify "Fire Platoon" into a role-playing like system where you play a series of missions (houses, apartments, warehouses, office buildings, etc.). Between the missions you would spend your experience on new skills and equipment.

Our future ideas include a real-time space game, a real-time economic simulator (Mars Colonization?), and a few board games.

I can't wait to pick up the changes for the new platforms and see those working (especially since my TV computer is Ubuntu; my new games will be available in the living room). Once I'm back in sync with the rest of T2D, I'm hoping to share some of these changes.

Thanks everybody!