The Billion Dollar Quest

BrainBall is coming along swimmingly. At this point, it is totally playable and functional – all 10 rounds are working, all the stats are working and all the necessary data loads properly into the portal. All that I need to do now is

a) fine-tune the games
b) write the instructions for each level
c) make the brainball website
d) test the game thoroughly before release

Based on this, I feel very good about my orginal March 1 release date… however, I may push this back a few days so it opens on a Monday instead of the middle of the week.

If you are interested in testing the beta version of brainball, please contact me to express your interest. You can email me at “alex” at “billiondollarquest.com” (I write my email like this to avoid spam, just piece it together like a normal email address)

well I have encountered a variety of delays and setbacks in the production of brainball … first of all, we had a visitor for the weekend which means I did nothing from friday – sunday. before that, I spent several hours making a level that I have since removed, so that wasted a bunch of time. I also realized that I forgot a major part of the project when outlining the remaining parts – the XML and PHP code to make BrainBall a daily game (I have to write a PHP program for each of the 10 levels that will output a daily XML file and then I have to adapt the Flash code so it reads the XML – this alone will take several days). Finally, I won nearly $1500 in online poker this week so that took up a bit of my time as well (although the money is very handy).

so now I aiming for my original relase date of March 1, which gives me a good two weeks to finish things up. if its not done by then, its no big deal, but I would like to get it live as soon as possible.

ive made a bit more progress on brainball… now have the basic architecture in place, most of the back-end code and the first two rounds (the two word games). i expect to make a lot more progress today… this is the only project I am really working on for the next week or more.