What I've Been Up To, + Plans For The Future

Hello everybody,

I know it's been a long time since my last post, so I just thought I'd give everyone an update as to what I'm currently doing at the moment, and what I plan on doing over the next year. As some of you may know, it is my placement year at the moment on my degree. This means that I should have gone and found a placement with a business of some description, doing an IT role of some description. I, however, was unable to do this due to the lack of interest from companies, due to the economic climate at the moment. Instead I have decided to work for myself, and create games and applications, which people can download digitally. I am doing this using a number of services. I am writing games in XNA Game Studio 3.1 at the moment, which I am presenting to the public using the Creators' Club and Xbox Live Arcade. I am also developing iPhone applications and games, to present to the community using the App Store.

I am currently developing a game which has an in-house title of Project Nerd. This game will be an indie RPG game, and will be a long time coming, as this game will be the fruits of roughly eight months of work. I am also developing a title called "Fighterspace Racers" which should be released in approximately two months. This will be released via XBLA, and if successful on that platform, will also be released on iPhone.

In terms of iPhone development, I am currently searching for contracts to develop iPhone applications for businesses. I have not currently made any commercially available iPhone applications, however I should have one or two on the market (on the app store) in approximately one to two months. I am also learning several other software languages in between doing all this, making me a bit of a busy bee at the moment.

Project Nerd will have a trailer, marketing related materials and demo version available to the community before the year is up, so keep an eye out! :D. Fighterspace Racers should be available from 30th September, 2010, so if you play games on the XBox and have an XBox Live account, please feel free to download it, and play :D. If anyone wants to contact me on any of the information I have presented in this article, email me at richard.pickering@hotmail.co.uk. Thanks for reading,

Richard