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I have added more information on external projects I have worked on, and a new project has been added to this page, Steinkjer municipal information client. This is a long lost application that was never available to the public. As the place that I worked at was closed, it was never finished.

I have updated these pages with more English information. Some of the project pages that were presented in Norwegian only is now also available in English. Hope some of these pages fall in interest.

In collaboration with my thesis buddy, we have created a game in the overhead genre, Gauntlet. This is just a working title, and the game isn't really similar to the Gauntlet arcade game made by Atari in 1985.

In order for the users to easily get a grip on how to use GameLib, I have added five templates, one for each of the genres the library currently supports. These genres are (from left to right): platform, shoot'em'up, racer, overhead and strategy.

I have finally taken the time to add new cars to the Slickers game. This game did earlier have one ugly car for all drivers. There is now four different cars, so that it is easier to see which one your are currently driving. They do also look slightly better than the original model.

What are games without highscores? Games featuring highscores promotes competetive gaming. Our library does now contain functionality needed for easily implementing highscores into a game. The left screenshot has a decrementive list, where the highest score is the best result. In the screenshot to the right, the ordering are incremental, so that a low score is the best result.

A boss has now been added to the end of the first level of Fire!. Just as in the Flash version, this larger plane contains several detachable parts. By shooting at the wing, the wing falls off, and the cannon on that wing does also disappear.

More features has been added to AntTics. These features include team information, ability to buy new units and fights. There has also been added some new levels.

What would our pathfinder be without an accompanying game? I have decided to finish a game I started a few years earlier, namely AntTics. This is a simple strategy game where you command a troop of ant soldiers against eachother. The white area shown in this screenshot is the coverage area for the selected winged ant at the top.

To further improve our library, we have created a path finder algorithm. We are currently using the well-known A*Star algorithm for finding the shortest path, and a modified Djikstra algorithm for finding the coverage area.