Hai... Bai...

Just passing through. Work has been keeping me pretty snowed-under and unmotivated in the past 3 weeks. Today should be the last day of that situation though. [smile]

Also, I've been reading through "Game Coding Complete", 3rd Ed, as reviewed by John Hattan. It has been a really great read so far. As someone who has been a hobbyist game-dever for at least a decade, I'm finding this to be a really great book for seeing how "the big guys" build their game engines. I've already sponged-up lots of ideas and inspiration for how to make better and easier to maintain core systems within my game engines and I've only just got up to part 3 of the book (maybe 1/3 of the way through). The range of experience has been kinda limited to his personal career so far, but overall I've found the info and advice he's given to make a lot of sense and should be really handy for my future exploits. This really isn't a beginner's book for programming newbies, but a "this is how we do it" book for anyone interested in how the pros work. Anyway, two thumbs up from me. [grin]

With any luck I'll be back with some dev stuff in the weeks to come.