Just added a "new" game called Nimja Clanquest that I finished about 4 months ago. It's based on Risk (although I've never played Risk in my life) and rock-paper-scissors. I wanted to see how players would like the random based battle and simple group battle mechanics. I'm planning on creating a similar group battle game where you won't need to individually control each character(selecting a unit, choosing an action and then a target) and instead just choose an action and have the rules of the game decide how the action is performed.

Ok maybe not quite so soon, but I'm currently working on a couple of games that I'm really excited about. I hope to finish them before years end (as I find time to work on them) but just wanted anyone who wanted to know, to know.

I'm hoping to make changes to this site as well. I have a couple of ideas that I want to work on but we'll see how much time I have to work on games and the site.

Gas prices have been pretty high recently so in an effort to save some money, and cut down on my carbon footprint (possibly), I've been taking public transport (riding the MAX and bus) and walking. It takes me approximately 25 minutes to walk two miles. How do I know this? Instead of waiting for the bus (which would have arrived in 17 minutes) I decided that I would try walking to work from the MAX station. I had taken the bus yesterday and it didn't seem to be that far so I thought it would be a pretty quick walk. I didn't realize it was two miles away...

This has been going around for at least a few days now but thought I'd put this up for anyone who missed it.

And for those who don't know, he ended up winning the whole thing.

Just added Cave Escaper. I've only played the first few levels, but I liked what I saw so far so I had to post it. The main goal of the game is to navigate your character to the exit indicated by the arrow. You can use your rope to swing or use your dynamite to blow up rocks.

There haven't been many games that I have liked recently, but this one did get me to play all the way through, which I usually don't do (I have a short attention span). Have a go at it, it's a pretty simple concept and I liked the music.

I know I've said that I would post stories about what others have done to help out with the relief efforts in China. I've read quite a few stories but can't seem to remember to write them all down, so doing a simple Google Search I am going to link to a few that I read today. These aren't the tear jerkers I had read before but you can see that a lot of people are coming out and showing their support.

Amy Yang donates prize to Chinese earthquake

I've added a new link that leads to the American Red Cross donation page. It's actually to the International Response Fund with the option to select the Chinese Earthquake Relief. I was inspired by my girlfriend to make a donation and am kind of disappointed in myself for not doing so before. I usually don't like it when people do something nice and then talk about it, but the more I talk about it, the more it makes me want to help. Hopefully I can inspire others to donate, just as my girlfriend had done for me.

Didn't realize the site looked so bad in Internet Explorer. I use Firefox and everything looked fine and thought I had opened the site with Internet Explorer before but apparently not. I think I put a band-aid on the issue, so hopefully it's not all "jumbled up" as that wasn't the intent. Sorry to anyone who had visited the site during that time.. which according to Google Analytics, are a bunch (relatively a bunch) of Internet Explorer users.