After adding semi-persistent stairs to my fetch-quest-maze-game "Destiny" coding has temporarily stopped. In the past I've relied on the excitement of discovering a new tool. This worked for "Drunken Pooper" and "Uppa Creek!" as I was just figuring out Batari BASIC. I've also used contests to spur myself on. This worked for my "Candybar" game. Recently, a deadline got me to finish "Nitebear on Sleepystreet" as Neotokeo2001 needed games to sign at a horror convention.

Alas, "Destiny" has very little new or contest-like or deadline-ish about it. I'm waiting for my next programming urge to come in.

I've been dissatisfied with the company who makes my favorite game programming tool. While the program itself is nice they've resorted to rootkit-like copy protection, overly restrictive EULAs and now blatant censoring of customer feedback. This last bit I can't link because deleted comments via forums and YouTube are, er, deleted. Mark Overmars little learning tool has turned corporate in a bad way.

All this has led me to find a new PC programming tool and I hope Unity is it. If I could just subvert it to make 2D games..