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Dropping in for a quick progress update on TW3- Still lots of work to do as always, but I feel like the game is really getting somewhere now. A lot of the main features have been taken care of. If I could cross off everything you see in the lists in the picture then the game would pretty much be ready for beta. The game is mostly missing final art and music/sfx, but I have checklists of bugs, features, effects, animations, patches, and other notes to take care of. I would like to have TW3 ready for beta by fall, but I still can't make promises.

In other news, if you come by here for escape games, check out Escape 6: The Shack! It will be on my site soon after the exclusive period is over, but for now you can play it on Newgrounds- http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594393

Hope you guys were entertained by my lazily photoshopped April Fools Day joke yesterday! Sad to say those updates wont be making it into the actual release of Territory War 3.

Well, except one of them that is... The Map Editor screenshot was not fake and is planned for inclusion in TW3. The idea is that you will be able to create and upload them for online play, but Xgen and I haven't worked out all of the details yet.

For now, Click here to test it!

PLEASE NOTE: I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT MAPS CREATED AND EXPORTED WITH THE CURRENT EDITOR WILL WORK IN FUTURE UPDATES. This is all a work in progress and is subject to change at any time, so just a heads up.

I know this game has been a long time coming, and progress has been slow in the past, but I think I'm finally far enough along to start revealing some official TW3 Info:

Google+ Integration

Social Networking is what it's all about these days, and TW3 will be on the cutting edge of integration. Products like Google Wave demonstrate Google's commitment to new technology, and I'm happy to be a part of that. What better way to let your friends know how awesome you are at an internet video game?

Volcanic Island Stage

Diversity has been a big motto of the TW3 level design process thus far. In an attempt to cover all types of terrain I've designed the 'Volcanic Island,' which is an unprecedented first in the Territory War Series.

Nuke Weapon

Often requested since the very first Territory war, The Nuke will be making an appearance in TW3. Each team receives one nuke per round. Use of the nuke will eliminate the entire stage and all players standing on it. It will also disconnect you from the server and erase your stats. You'll win the match though, so choose wisely!

The Void III

Continuing the diversity theme, Void III takes the 'outer space' concept very literally. Gone are the days of randomized comets and planets, or anything period. Void III is free-floating free-for-all where your grenade tossing skills become all but useless. Watch out for black holes!

Castle II

I've been working a decent amount on TW3 lately. Mostly due to the fact that Xgen has been able to set me up with a private testing area and access to their server-side software, which is something new for TW3. As always I'll post here on my site if there are major updates, but if you want to keep up on small developments here and there you should add me on twitter @afroninjadotcom or lurk at Twboards.

Here's a picture of the new explosion particles and singe marks:

Just a quick post to let you guys know that I released Escape the Car for the Xbox Indie Game Channel.

Game Page

I'll have a new escape game coming out later this year but for now it would be awesome if you guys could rate and/or download the game and help me get some exposure- The game features all-new artwork by Hyptosis and as always, music by Josh and Jason.

P.S. Territory war

Swain and I recently released Skincraft on Newgrounds, an easy to use browser-based skin editor for Minecraft!

I know I know, it's not TW3 news. But Swain and I are fans of Minecraft and thought it would be a good idea to follow through with. I'll have it here on the site later but for now it's just on NG.

I bought a new computer recently that's going to speed up development time and make things much more efficient. My computer can now run fraps at full speed so I put together a little trailer for SHMUP, check it here.

This frees up my schedule so now I'll have time to get back to TW3. After a short vacation of course :x

Just a quick note to tell everyone to go check out the Pico Day 2011 entries over at Newgrounds. I helped out Zombie-Pimp again with his new flash, Pico Day Pinata Party.

Also if you're a fan of Brad Borne's Fancy Pants Adventures, be sure to check out the recently released console version available on PSN and XBLA. The original Worlds 1 and 2 return and World 2 still features the same bonus levels, mine included :)

I cleaned up the press section, removing some dead links and adding a new one for the Flash Mindmeld that I was a part of recently.

I also just added the Fan Art section, something I've been meaning to do for a while now. I've grown a small collection over the years so I thought it would be nice to showcase it.

As far as projects, I'm bouncing between about 3 of them right now. I updated the poll, so let me know what you want to see first! (no guarantees :p)

So I posted an update for Thanksgiving but skipped right over Christmas and New Years. How about that...

I've been home in Ohio for a few weeks, and will be heading back to Philly soon. I have been busy though. First up, Joe and I slapped together a quick game called Dungeon Dice. You may remember Joe aka SleazeRocker from Camp Crystal Lake and Escape 2.5: The Omg Scary Room. Fans of territory war and the escape series will hate it because... well... it's not territory war or the escape series ;)

I've also been busy this break working on adding art to SHMUP. You may have noticed I posted up a preview for it a few days ago. I'm pretty happy with the progress- Hyptosis pretty much came out of nowhere and really cranked out all the assets I needed in a short amount of time. The game is mostly done but we still need Kelwynshade to compose the soundtrack for us

Lastly, believe it or not, I have done a little bit of work on the TW3 engine. So it's a little bit farther along than just being a file in my cabinet, but it's not really enough to talk about so I'll leave it at that. Once SHMUP releases TW3 will be my main focus

It's that time of year again, so here's hoping you're all ready to eat triple the amount of calories your body should intake on any given day. I'm staying here in philly and having a Thanksgiving shindig with Swain and friends.

In game related news, the engine and gameplay for shmup is done. Meaning you can play the game from start to finish, but there's no art, sound, presentation, polish, or anything like that. I have some artists in mind but I'm kinda waiting to hear back from them before moving on. In the meantime I've been taking notes and writing down ideas for another project...