My game is now complete, in it’s initial phase!  Woo programming excitement!  I’m super excited to share my recent creation (with much help from Robey), called Science Fiction Tower Power (for now).  I hope people enjoy it, and make sure to let me know of any bugs/problems they find as they check it out.

As I’ve mentioned before the game was originally meant to provide my nieces and nephews a more entertaining way to practice basic math skills.  Game creation was especially prompted when I learned how memorization of simple addition/subtraction/multiplication is no longer required in the local schools.  My nephew is always provided a calculator and a multiplication table for all of his math tests.  He’s in 6th grade.  Doesn’t this seem wrong?  At least it does to me.  I remember memorizing the combinations during elementary school and I feel it’s made my life much easier in the long run.  Heck I’m even excited to try this game out so that I can work on them again, because I’m not as quick as I used to be.  

We originally meant this to be a weekend project when it was going to be mostly programmed by Robey, but we quickly decided to shove some javascript into my brain by making this little exercise mine.  Thus a weekend project turned into a week project (let’s be honest, week and a half), mainly produced by pythonliving.  I’m excited to continue to develop my project, and if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them.  I’ve mentioned some updates I want to make in a previous entry, but here are a couple just to wet your Holiday taste-buds with:

• A Basic Tutorial, so it’s easier to get the hang of
• Multiple ships per row, to make it more thrilling, and
• Statistics, so you know how well you’re doing.

Thanks for all the support, and I hope everyone enjoys the game!