Starting a blog about Tribulation Knights (TM)

Welcome to my development blog. I decided to take down the old site and replace it with this one for several purposes. The reasons for this are numerous but the primary one is that it no longer reflected the look and feel of the game. The previous site had images from the game when it was built using another game engine.

Since the first unamed engine technology I used in Tribulation Knights was terribly behind in development, it was impacting the completion of my game.

So I switched engine technologies to the Garage Games “TGEA” Torque Game Engine Advanced.

This is a difficult thing to do in the middle of an active project! It has cost me a lot of time and money to do so. The models had to be converted to another model type. Many textures had to be modified. Scripts had to be written in a new language that I did now at the time. The overall look of the game changed with a new rendering system. Then that engine changed as new versions were developed. Bugs would be fixed, and new ones would be discovered. 3rd party code was licensed and then programmed into the new engine and game code base. Slowly but surely the game foundation was strong and the development of the fun stuff could continue. Tribulation Knights was a massive game that became too big. So I decided to break it up into episodes. This reduced the size of the download considerably. Breaking the game up into chunks made it easier to focus only on a particular location and characters, which is easier for me since I had massive maps all in development at the same time. The game is coming together finally, and I am not as overwhelmed with the new scope. I hope anyone reading this will be pleased with the new look of the game as compared to the original 2007-2008 version. This new 2008-2009 version is really a new take on my original story.

I hope you enjoy reading my development blog as I work on completing TK Episode 1, and move on to the other episodes already partially completed and awaiting completion.