Progress!

I have this friend who goes by the nickname ramirez. He's the one hosting this website and for a long time he's been the person to ask if I had any technical questions. For years, I'd start conversations with ramirez by asking him to make my game. The answer was always no, so it was more of a joke rather than a serious request.

Yesterday I asked ramirez to make a game together, and he said yes. I thought he wasn't serious about it, but it turned out that he was. After I told him a bit more about Excalistia he agreed to help me in making the game engine. He started coding right away and already set up a source code control repository and submitted some initial code. Gotta love that guy!

Other than the fact that ramirez is smart, dedicated, and gets things done, I guess he'd motivate (read: shame) me into also doing my part and getting Excalistia somewhere. This is good news because by our estimates we should have something solid by early next year. Furthermore, the engine will be much better than anything I could have done alone, and ramirez has some wonderful gameplay ideas that will make Excalistia more seamless and fun than I ever intended it to be.

I'm really excited about this! Expect more frequent updates because there's actual progress now. Yes, progress! :D