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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...

Ok so I was sucked into minecraft for a little bit and I decided to remake the Facility level from Goldeneye 007 on the 64. Check it out on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9dzUplQGYU

In other youtube related news, it looks like they finally put a better system in place for recognizing and allowing licensed music. How to be a guitar hero is back up, and they finally allowed our Bible Black music video to be published. Both can now be seen from my channel page: youtube.com/afroninjadotcom

That isn't to say I haven't been working of course. SHMUP is coming along nicely, and I intend to finish up the level designs this month. Still no art or music though, which is why I can't really post screenshots. I'll give another progress report by month's end.

Like I mention in the description, I'd like to be releasing more content lately. unfortunately that's not always so easy so I put a few days aside to throw something together: http://afro-ninja.com/game/64

puzzmosis is still waiting on its soundtrack. I've been putting a lot of work into a SHMUP engine in the meantime but I don't have any release date in mind, it was mostly started as a fun side project. we'll see where that goes. I still intend to start prototyping some TW3 ideas before year's end.

aaaand that's about all I have to report here... I'll be heading back to Ohio for a week starting tomorrow, for my cousin's wedding, so I don't forsee too much getting done. I'll keep you guys updated on progress as it comes

First off, my two week waiting period with Addictinggames is up, so Escape 5 is now here on the site

As an added bonus I've also uploaded Swain's Mastermind: World Conqueror game to the site. After all you can even hire Afro-Ninja to assist in your plans for world domination...

Next up: Territory War. The next installment in the series will officially be called Territory War 3. No, not Territory War Online 2. TWO made a notable step forward with online play so I felt the need to tack 'online' to the title. TW3 however will continue the series forward so I feel that online play is a given.

As for the current version of TWO, there will be no more updates. None. Ever. As far as I'm concerned the source code is to be sealed away like an ancient relic.

I do not intend to start TW3 until the end of this year. Keyword start, so don't expect anything until 2011. I'm going to be taking a break from flash this summer to learn some new things, as well as explore Philadelphia a bit. I have a couple game ideas I might work on casually but that's all I can say for now

Lastly, Puzzmosis has not been forgotten. In fact, it's fairly close to finished. We all sort of got side tracked with different projects, and there have been some delays on the audio end of things. Expect it sometime this summer.