I met with my two friends tonight about our game (Crescendo). It was very cool because I had trepidation about showing them what I had done and opening up the ideas I have already begun working on up for criticism and revision, but it was surprisingly easy. I think God has helped me grow in humility over the past six years or so, for there was a time when I would not have been amenable to their ideas. (Don’t worry, I’m still very prideful and so I won’t let this modicum of humility go to my head.. ).

I told them that I thought we should put off graphics and networking, mainly because I have never understood those areas of programming very well, so I am afraid of them, and so I want to put them off. They disagreed and presented good arguments for why we need to consider them now at the outset. Additionally, they are both respectively interested in these two areas and have prior experience with them!

“Cool,” I thought to myself. “They actually want to work on these hard parts, and our skills could really complement each other.”

We brainstormed ideas for the different Kingdoms’ creatures and styles, talked about technologies to explore (game engines, libraries, etc.), and talked about meta-level things like source code control, servers, development environments, cross-platform considerations, etc.

My friends do not share my Catholic faith–nor are even Christians, so that makes me the spiritual leader for the team. I’m asking God to help us and to bless us, and I have placed our game completely under the patronage of St. Joseph. May it succeed or fail according to God’s desires for it through St. Joseph’s intercession. (Gotta love that Communion of Saints!).

Tomorrow I’m going to my Catholic men’s group meeting, then up to work for a few hours, then going to play some Warhammer 40K, so it should be an interesting day. May God bless you!