I'm mulling over three distinct projects.  Let's say... two and a half.  Ok... just two - I just discounted the third idea altogether for the sake of this blog.

So, my more exciting idea is revitalizing the Asteroids rEVOlution engine and building a cool space shooter around the technology. 

Lookie!  It's Asteroids!  In threeeee-deeeeee

So, imagine that... but with R*Type, Gradius, Darius, Einhander type play.

I have been reworking the 3D math scripts I created for the engine for a public release, and for my own continuing use... so hopefully a full blown project will come of this soon.

The other project is re-inventing my Round Table Billiards game (the one that sort of got me through the door here.) 

Round Table Billiards

For one, it just seems like a poetic effort for EO.  For another, I've been wanting to finish a play-by-email billiards game for my dad.  Plus, the 3D math scripts I've been working on would lend themselves brilliantly for the rolling balls.

In the old version, the balls were just doing an approximation of rolling-- with the scripts, I can keep them true to their angular velocity.

So... I keep asking people for opinions about what to proceed with.  Both isn't really a viable answer, as I'll just use one as an excuse to procrastinate on the other-- though maybe that is a viable strategy to keep my energy level fresh afterall.

PS - part of the reason I'm revisiting these games is because I lost the source code.  I had them backed up on a network drive while I was reformatting my computer... during that process, I got the power adapters for the drive and a monitor mixed up and I fried the control board of the harddrive.  I'm hoping the data is still there, and I'm going to try a new enclosure for the drive to see if I can salvage the info.  The big problem is that they are 3.5 inch drives, and our house only has laptops-- so I need the enclosure to access them.  I took it to a PC repair shop, and they didn't do the obvious tests (like plug the damn thing into a working computer) and when I pressed them on it, they decided that big a step was a job worth paying for-- idiots.