Lack of progress

There has been a distinct lack of progress with the game over the past week. I make no excuses for it I'm just slack.

Well thats not quite true, I got distracted with other things like appointments. I also designed a website as a favour for someone which took up a little of my time.

The other sticking point was that I was stuck on a few difficult issues to resolve. I was unhappy with the current motorway system because it made adding new content (places to visit) very difficult. As I've pretty much finished of the starting location (rock city) I couldn't do them until I had figured out what to do.

I was writing an email when suddenly I had a brainwave. I decided that perhaps in the game you could have a SatNav system (called MattNav in the game). The player could select from all the places he could visit from a drop down box or something. As this would be database driven in theory it would only be a small database change to add new locations and adventures (simplistically). I wanted to add loads of little places you can have adventures in to get new items or XP points. I think adding these in will make the game more interesting and it will start to come alive.

Theres the theory anyway. I promise I'll work on the game lots next week to make up for it!