Own projects?

[Judge]

I was wondering if any of you were working on long-term (non-D&D) projects they want/care to share? Anything from a noob IRC bot to a Hit & Slash MMORPG. :smallbiggrin:

I'm just wondering because there's tonnes of people here whom I can ask, unlike most other sites.

[†Seer†]

This might go in gaming, or not (brain is iffy at the momet), but I'm working on building a world/series of games that progress over time (i.e first game is in a world 1000 years old, 2nd is 1500, etc). If code allows, the next game in the series will read cues from your saved game on the last one and mod the world based on that.

Chance of success? Who knows.
Pleasure of working on it? Immense.

[thubby]

i'm building a radio. atm salvaging parts for it from old toys and junk...
what?:smallconfused:

I've been working on my art skills. along with a few other minor skills im working on.

[Hazkali]

In a fit of anti-commercialism my family has agreed to make their Christmas presents by hand this year, so at some point I'm going to have to learn a halfway useful skill for that.

Other than that, I'm attempting to learn how to paint with watercolours and I have my breakout novel (I wish...:smallbiggrin:) simmering away on a back-burner.

[Nibleswick]

I'm currently trying to write two novels, a comic strip, and a graphic novel, oh, and I trying to teach myself enough art to to do the comic strip, and the graphic novel. On top of all of that I'm getting ready to go to some as of yet unknown place and spend two years there trying to convince people that I haven't met of something that in all likelihood is something they don't want to hear. So, no worries eh:smallbiggrin:

[NotAboutBalance]

Am currently writing novel with awesome storyline that's a bit too short.:smallwink:

[RTGoodman]

I'm teaching myself to play electric bass. I have a ton of musical experience, so it's not like I'm starting from the very beginning, but I've never played a string instrument before and that makes it slightly harder.

[Blayze]

I was wondering if any of you were working on long-term (non-D&D) projects they want/care to share?

Oh, God. Let's see... Discounting the endless collection of "I'll just make a new Notepad file for this" ideas that fell by the wayside and the failed Kobolds webcomic Yeril and I attempted (And the webcomic American Canine all but agreed to, before disappearing off the face of this forum) and the comic I attempted with a man called Marcelino A Balao III (It fell through), that leaves me with...

One webcomic (Currently on an "even more occasional updates" hiatus of sorts because Zweanslord has a thesis to kick in the teeth), one movie script (I'm never going to finish Script Frenzy. I don't like deadlines. :P) and a series of novels set in the same world that said script and webcomic are set in.

It's all one, cohesive story (Or rather, it *will* be if I can ever get it all done), it's just going through adaption after adaption and rewrite after rewrite. Hopefully I'll eventually be able to refine it to perfection.

So yeah, Estra's currently taking up all the time I care to spend on projects. I once attempted to add "Learn to draw" to that list of projects, but that died a rather painful death eventually.

Edit: I can provide links if people are interested (I've got the first novel written and uploaded). ;)

[SMEE]

I have been working for about 3 years in a SF2 clone fan game with a friend.

A first version of it was released over an year ago, and I'm trying to deploy the new, improved version this weekend.

[Mauve Shirt]

I'm trying to finish and illustrate a manuscript for my adolescent lit class.

[valadil]

I have three main projects going on.

I'm working on learning guitar. This is an ongoing thing with no end in sight. I'm trying to stick with acoustic and only fall back to electric when I need some encouragement. At the moment I'm trying to add bar chords to my repertoire. I'd also like to pick up music theory at some point and maybe get vocal lessons too.

The project I'm 90% done with is going to be pretty cool when it works. I'm trying to get my computer to download new episodes of TV shows I like as they come out. It involves using RSS feeds for each show, such that each item in the feed is a .torrent for the new episode. I'm not going to divulge how to go about doing this on this forum. I'm aware that there are programs out there that already do this, but I wanted one that would run in the background without displaying a window. At the moment the downloader works most of the time (the bt client I chose isn't as reliable as I'd like) but the script to place the downloaded files where I want them still needs some work.

My main project is D&D related. I'm working on a battlemap that runs in a web browser. At the moment all it does is lets you move around a block. I should be able to add in more drawing functions relatively soon and after that I'll move on to AJAX so that the page is shared by several viewers. The project is officially Firefox only (though it has been known to sporadically run in Safari and Opera) and I'm aiming for Firefox3 due to its improved SVG support. I'm getting slowed down a little due to SVG related bugs that I keep finding, but the developers seem pretty good about fixing those.

If anyone is interested you can see the development version of the site here (http://svg.thuranni.net/). I warn you though, it's hardly complete and if you try to load the page while I'm working on it it probably won't work.

[Szilard]

I was working on a full length stop-motion Lego starwars movie, but it sort of fell to the back of my mind because I don't know where the usb cable for my camera is.

[MisterSaturnine]

Well, I'm working on a short graphic novel with a friend who's illustrating, and that's almost done. It's called Parts, is incredibly creepy, and gave my mother nightmares. The antagonist actually frightens me, and his image makes me slightly uncomfortable. Suffice to say, I'm very pleased with the result so far.

I'm also co-writing a story with a friend that should be interesting, and am currently a part of a student-directed play at my high school, a stage adaptation of the movie Clue. I'm playing the butler. Should be plenty of fun.

Besides that, I'm constantly making little tweaks to my idea for a campaign world, or scrapping it and starting over if the mood strikes me.

[Judge]

This might go in gaming, or not (brain is iffy at the momet), but I'm working on building a world/series of games that progress over time (i.e first game is in a world 1000 years old, 2nd is 1500, etc). If code allows, the next game in the series will read cues from your saved game on the last one and mod the world based on that.

Chance of success? Who knows.
Pleasure of working on it? Immense.

Ooh, very interesting, where are you at visually? Or is it only the core module with text atm?


I'm currently trying to write two novels, a comic strip, and a graphic novel, oh, and I trying to teach myself enough art to to do the comic strip, and the graphic novel. On top of all of that I'm getting ready to go to some as of yet unknown place and spend two years there trying to convince people that I haven't met of something that in all likelihood is something they don't want to hear. So, no worries eh:smallbiggrin:


Love the comic, what genre of novels?
That goes to all of you, what genre do you write in?


Oh, God. Let's see... Discounting the endless collection of "I'll just make a new Notepad file for this" ideas that fell by the wayside and the failed Kobolds webcomic Yeril and I attempted (And the webcomic American Canine all but agreed to, before disappearing off the face of this forum) and the comic I attempted with a man called Marcelino A Balao III (It fell through), that leaves me with...

One webcomic (Currently on an "even more occasional updates" hiatus of sorts because Zweanslord has a thesis to kick in the teeth), one movie script (I'm never going to finish Script Frenzy. I don't like deadlines. :P) and a series of novels set in the same world that said script and webcomic are set in.

It's all one, cohesive story (Or rather, it *will* be if I can ever get it all done), it's just going through adaption after adaption and rewrite after rewrite. Hopefully I'll eventually be able to refine it to perfection.

So yeah, Estra's currently taking up all the time I care to spend on projects. I once attempted to add "Learn to draw" to that list of projects, but that died a rather painful death eventually.

Edit: I can provide links if people are interested (I've got the first novel written and uploaded). ;)

Love the comic too, can't wait for more, I wonder what the plot is. :smallbiggrin:

I have been working for about 3 years in a SF2 clone fan game with a friend.

A first version of it was released over an year ago, and I'm trying to deploy the new, improved version this weekend.
Soldier of Fortune?

[SMEE]

No, Street Fighter. :smallsmile:

[Nibleswick]

Well, the first novel, The Adventures of Professor Julian Schmek, is fantasy, and is aimed at a younger audience. The second novel and graphic novel are also fantasy, one is a comedy, the other very much isn't. Last bu not least is the comic, called Peg-Leg Pete, is set in a real-ish world, and is about the live of a guy with a wooden leg, and his friends (the guys friends, not the legs friends:smallbiggrin: )

[The Extinguisher]

Among other things, a project I am working on is to make a music video in flash which involves a band made of ghosts and Space Godzilla.

[Surprise!]

Fufilling acient prophacies, chewing bubble gum. I don't do much then else then work in the mind poisoning service industry. In not other occupation is misanthropy so easy to fall into.

[DraPrime]

I'm attempting to salvage all the old circuitry in everything broken in my house. I'll then use this stuff to build other electronics. I swear, if I didn't want to be a pilot I would be trying to become an electrician.

[Quincunx]

Short-term project will be to make some skirts since the length I like hasn't been fashionable and therefore buyable for several years now, and weight the hems with curtain cord in order to fight the local wind. Medium-term project is drafting a pattern for a close-fitting half-top to wear under my corset, such that I can wear it and not fear indecent exposure. If this works, and drafting around the altered body shape of a corset is a sizeable 'if'*, I want to start making my own bras.

*although I must confess that my grasp of drafting shoulder alterations, the base of this project, isn't that great either. My kingdom for a pattern which accommodates poor shoulder posture! Why didn't I photocopy the relevant pages from the library book?!

[Judge]

Something I remembered crossing my mind, has anyone tried to split up D&D into levels (easy, medium, hard type of thing)?

I was just thinking because, D&D is a big load to swallow at once, it has many items, spells, skills, actions etc. has anyone tried to simplify this? I mean, instead of err... *looks up* 18ish modifiers and 6 abilities, just 3 abilities and no modifiers, then 6 abilities and 6ish modifiers and then all?

Could this even be done? Because I assume you'd have to adapt or even leave out a great part of D&D...



So far for non-D&D things. :smallbiggrin:

In other news, I'm <very slowly> trying to learn C++ and I'm working on a wiki for a game.

[Ivius]

I've been planning on doing a few things for a while now. I've always wanted to make a website, but I can't think of a topic (I don't want to add to the crazy number of 'These are my hobbies, and this one thing happened today' blogs). I've been planning on writing a simple little CLI editor like ed or ex using either Perl or Python (leaning towards the former). And I want to write a character sheet generator for M&M (again, either in Perl or Python).

[SpiderMew]

No, Street Fighter. :smallsmile:

Which reminds me, an mvc style Posion was relesed recently.


Im working on getting my first character made for mugen, ive had to pass it on to a teammate of mine to finish the code, and im also helping out with another character we at Team Spoiler are making. Sniper Joe will only be a beta when my friend finishes the code, and i'll have allot more sprites to make for other supers and hypers.

[potatocubed]

I have about ten pet projects on the go at the moment, but they're all roleplaying related.

I suspect this is because I'm a huge nerd. :smalltongue:

[Lilly]

Short-term project will be to make some skirts since the length I like hasn't been fashionable and therefore buyable for several years now, and weight the hems with curtain cord in order to fight the local wind. Medium-term project is drafting a pattern for a close-fitting half-top to wear under my corset, such that I can wear it and not fear indecent exposure. If this works, and drafting around the altered body shape of a corset is a sizeable 'if'*, I want to start making my own bras.

*although I must confess that my grasp of drafting shoulder alterations, the base of this project, isn't that great either. My kingdom for a pattern which accommodates poor shoulder posture! Why didn't I photocopy the relevant pages from the library book?!

My friend makes renaissance festival style corsets, and this website (http://www.corsetmaking.com/) is where she finds a lot of supplies and patterns and other assorted ideas.

My personal projects are, teaching my little sister and my dad to play D&D, learning to play guitar (still in the infancy stages, since I don't have a guitar), looking for a new camera, and assorted crafty projects.

[CrazedGoblin]

ive been writing a story for the passed 3 years on and off :smallbiggrin:

[lumberofdabeast]

This probably falls under gaiming, but whatever. I'm working on building two worlds at the moment. One is one I've had on the back burner for years, and I'll get around to it eventually. For the other, I started with the basic premise "What would a world where it never stopped raining be like?", and ran with it. Still working on terrain, but it promises to be... interesting, to say the least.

[Destro_Yersul]

sometimes I do leatherwork. Contrary to WoW, it takes longer than a few seconds for each item. :smallbiggrin:

Also, I'm working on something like 4 armies for Warhammer at this point. They're taking forever to paint.

[Quincunx]

lumberofdabeast: Seattle.

Lilly: Thanks for the website, although it doesn't have help for the solution I've been leaning towards (a halter top/sleeveless top, which will skirt the issue of can't-draft-a-shoulder-pattern-to-save-my-life). Some of those more esoteric fabrics would be impossible to find here.