WeDoIst.com is an elegantly simple project management website that creates a comfortable working space for keeping track of programming tasks. Its easier to setup and use effectively than something as complex as Bugzilla or Trac. Both of those are great tools as well, but WeDoIst’s minimalistic interface keeps task management simple. As we plow through the TODO list, updates will be pushed to the Google Code page’s WIKI. Before long, version 1.0 binaries might even surface.

The next project now has a fully functional UI the navigate between different states and the beginning architecture of the main gameplay engine. Looking forward to posting an update soon with more explicit details.

Thanks largely in part to the many hundreds of hours spent programming this summer I’ve re-opened my interest in developing with Flixel. I’m not looking to piggy-back off of the samples floating around like many of the Flixel based games I’ve seen, but utilize the underlying infrastructure to handle things like state management and UI components so that I can focus on the game I want to create.

After playing with Flixel for a single night, it appears to fit the bill nicely. It handles everything I need from an ActionScript framework for my next project. Currently there are three concurrently running Flash game development contests, all co-sponsored by Adobe. I am planning on releasing different editions of this game for each contest. More details on what the exact gameplay is like will be released closer to game completion. However, the entire roadmap is finished and much up the functionality and UI are mocked up. I’ve also already constructed the XML data handling classes that the game will require.

With all that said, I haven’t yet made any more updates to the website. I’m in the process of redoing the old logo from scratch so that I have a nice vector-based formatted image to fall back on in the future should I run into host migration issues like what happened when moving from IX. The website is a lower priority for me, but I MIGHT get around to fully updating everything before school starts. One of the higher priorities is seeing what data can be saved from the corrupted database export files I have from the old site.

Lastly, I have some more improvements that I’d like to make to Lyrics Lasso. That might prove a project worth pulling in some friends from RPI once the semester kicks off. Time will tell.

Last night the entire site was rewritten from the ground up. By the end of the week I will backfill the Projects page and tune up the graphics a touch. There’s a lot of activity in my programming world right now, so I’m excited to have the blog back up to post updates.