Great Start

Well, maybe I meant "every three or four days or whenever I feel like it" when I said I'd try to start writing every day. The pathetic part is that I'm not even busy. I've been "on call" at work for two weeks now. I'm getting paid like normal but I've been at home. Basically, the project I'm on is so messed up that the management had to stop it and figure out how to get it back on track. So in the mean time I get a summer vacation.

I've been trying to do fun stuff while I'm off. I've gone kayaking twice, went to the Wild Animal Park with my mom, went to Balboa Park, got out my bass guitar that I haven't played in like two years, and started working on my game again.

I'm writing a role playing game engine in Java just to have something to play with. It's pretty fun, and I love working in Java, but I don't spend enough time on it. When I get it working I'll put it up on my website or something, but that's going to be a little ways off still. It's a surprising amount of work to get it to a point where it will do anything, let alone behave like a real game. My goal is to get the game to feel like a classic SNES RPG, like Chrono Trigger or Earthbound. It'll probably be more like Earthbound since that game is very simple. Anyway, it's a fun project. I keep having trouble getting going on it though because I get sucked into real video games when I'm just sitting at home. I have a lot of the designe worked out in my head or on paper, but there's a ton that I have no idea how I'm going to do.