Can you smell what Barack is cookin'?!?

Here's a hint:

Ingredients: 270 electoral votes.
Cook on medium for 4 to 8 years.

Change of plans - I gave up on CakePHP and decided to rewrite the site from scratch. CakePHP made doing the normal things very easy, but when I wanted to do something different, I really had to fight it.

The final straw was when setting up the Contact page, I wanted to add some validation to the form. But to use CakePHP's nice form validation methods, the form data had to be associated with Model, and the Model had to be associated with a database table. Since it was just sending an email, there was no table, so eventually I had to write my own special validation for that page.

Anywho, its all finished and I can start actually working on new stuff now.

I'm slowly putting the old sections of my site back up. First up is the games section (formerly known as Flash). I'll probably divide them up into two groups on that main page, since a bunch of those aren't actually games, just interactive toys.

Next is probably Big McLargeHuge, since its easy. Then back to work on Progressive Comics 2, which has been in progress for about 5 years or so. The code is about 60% done, but I'm debating whether to scrap it and start over. Recoding it in ActionScript 3 (I started coding it in Flash MX with AS2) would make it quite a bit cleaner (especially the component skinning), but I could very well get sidetracked again and delay it another couple years.

So it goes.

Huzzah! I won the UGOPlayer gamefest. My first dollars (of many, hopefully) in my career in game development.

Here's something else I've put together, a crop circle generator:

About a month ago, my brother sent me a link to the UGO Player Gamefest. I decided to give it a shot and worked my butt off for a month creating a new game for the competition. What I ended up with is SpaceJunk, a asteroidy-flying-around-in-space type game. So check it out and give it a vote. Also be sure to check out the entries...er...entry.