Yeah that's the joke I made when I first heard of C++ in like 2001. It's lame, I know. Anyways 7 years later and I'm learning it! I'm really glad I pretty much mastered Byond DM before learning C++, it's helped me understand a lot of things quickly with C++. So I just finished my first "game" in C++, I made a simple Tic-Tac-Toe!

You can find it here:
http://members.byond.com/Dession/files/Tic%20Tac%20Toe.exe

It's the rawest Tic-Tac-Toe you've probably ever played, but it's a start! More complex games/applications coming soon!

-Dession

...that The World is currently looking for an icon artist. All of the icons currently in the game were made by me and are...let's just say they're not anything worth bragging about. Unless you like stick figures that is! Anyways, if you're interested please contact me and have some previous work available for me to look at. You must be able to create the mobs, turfs, clothes, objects, affects, etc... Needed to create this game. Thank you and I to hear from someone soon!

It would be preferred if you liked/knew a lot about .hack in general, so it's easier to know what you have to create, without me having to find pictures of it =P.

-Dession

Wait is this....Is this really Dession posting a blog? YES IT IS! What does this mean?

I'm back!

What does me being back entail? Well for the past few days I have been working on The World, continuing where I left off, adding more things, and just getting a feel for it again. I'm really excited to be here again. Work and school has kept me busy but now I'm going to make time for my passion, creating games. So http://www.dession.net was turned in to a blog, a LONG time ago. And http://www.dession.net/forum is still up. All though I seem to have a problem with bots being created and posting threads about who-knows-what.

This is the beginning of something amazing. I promise you! More after the jump!

-Dession

No. The World and Heroes!

Heroes
So basically...I don't know what's going on with Heroes right now. IceWarriorX and I haven't been working on it much but I have not abandoned anything. Hopefully me and him can get back in to production.

The World
In my absence from Heroes, I have started my own little game that I've pretty much been thinking about for years. This game is going to be a fan-game of the anime/manga series .Hack. I know it's a fan-game, but this is something I've wanted to do for a long time. Basically production is coming on well. Right now I am programming with make-shift stick figure icons made by myself. I figure I can find an icon artist later and just work on the game itself now. So far what I have done is, Flash Mail, the classes, combat, equipment, NPCs, Chaos Gates, partying, and various other miscellaneous things in The World. I recently bought the original Dot Hack games for PS2 and ordered the study guides so I can make sure I get everything correct in my fan-game. The world forums can be found here at the forums. I'm currently looking for an icon artist for this project.

So yeah, that's it for now! More to come in the following weeks.

-Dession

The first "mission" has just been added to Heroes! Note: It was just made so I can figure out how I want quests to work. It's just a simple "Go kill random person" thing. I'm not very original when it comes to things like that and chances are this mission wont be even included in the game its basically a place holder for now... So it doesn't really matter =P. So leave any ideas for missions in the suggestions forum.

I have also added in a point system thing for how strong your powers are. The categories are fire, water, air, psychic, and earth. I have also added in damage types, every kind of damage you do is one of those types including physical [The damage of your physical attacks depends on your strength]. This will help later on when we add strengths/weaknesses.



Wow I forgot to mention a little fun icon thing we added to the game. With the addition of health bars, and whatnot we have added an option to showcase a little icon next to where your health bar shows. It looks nice in-game and is a good way to tell who's who without clicking on them or anything. Right now only IceWarrior, a few other people, and I have custom icons. But there are a variety to choose from in-game.
We also added some nice Earthly powers to the game. Like one where you combine rocks to create a powerful golem.

-Dession