01/04: April Fools Day
The new update for Blazing Games has been posted, though I still have a lot of work to do yet. What is essentially going to happen is that instead of directories of games, I am moving to a pure project format. Right now, for the sake of ease of transition, there are four projects that correspond to the different categories that I use to place games into. Within the next couple of days, an additional six projects will be appearing on the site, though the most popular category will be removed. Lets take a look at these upcoming projects.
The first project is an obvious one. It already consists of four or five games (depending on whether you consider CQGL a separate game), with most of those games having multiple episodes. In addition, the CQFS engine is being built specifically for three new games in this series. Yes, the project is the Coffee Quest project.
If I am considering Coffee Quest to be a separate project, then one would have to consider Ultimate Retro Project and One of those Weeks as separate projects. Likewise, the Silly Stuff collection already is a collection even though it only has a few items in it. The Dozen Days pentalogy only has one partially complete game in it, but it will be expanded out to 60 games so it will have it's own project.
At this point, I have covered all the game projects that already exist on the site. I have one additional project that people who followed my year plans (which by the way are still active as this change doesn't alter any of my development plans but I will be more focused so don't expect all the plans I set forth at the beginning of the year to be finished by the end of the year). That project is not one of the six new ones, but may be added later in the year.
As anybody who has visited Blazing Games after the initial change may have noticed is that the bar of buttons on the side have been removed. This is because the home page is now linked to the logo so that button wasn't needed. Nor was the game button as the home page is now the main game index. The project based nature of the site means that coming soon isn't needed. About and Links have been moved to the extra links on the bottom of all the pages. This leaves the articles button. My solution was to create a books and tutorials project which makes the articles button no longer needed. No buttons needed, no button bar!
The first project is an obvious one. It already consists of four or five games (depending on whether you consider CQGL a separate game), with most of those games having multiple episodes. In addition, the CQFS engine is being built specifically for three new games in this series. Yes, the project is the Coffee Quest project.
If I am considering Coffee Quest to be a separate project, then one would have to consider Ultimate Retro Project and One of those Weeks as separate projects. Likewise, the Silly Stuff collection already is a collection even though it only has a few items in it. The Dozen Days pentalogy only has one partially complete game in it, but it will be expanded out to 60 games so it will have it's own project.
At this point, I have covered all the game projects that already exist on the site. I have one additional project that people who followed my year plans (which by the way are still active as this change doesn't alter any of my development plans but I will be more focused so don't expect all the plans I set forth at the beginning of the year to be finished by the end of the year). That project is not one of the six new ones, but may be added later in the year.
As anybody who has visited Blazing Games after the initial change may have noticed is that the bar of buttons on the side have been removed. This is because the home page is now linked to the logo so that button wasn't needed. Nor was the game button as the home page is now the main game index. The project based nature of the site means that coming soon isn't needed. About and Links have been moved to the extra links on the bottom of all the pages. This leaves the articles button. My solution was to create a books and tutorials project which makes the articles button no longer needed. No buttons needed, no button bar!
