October 10th 2018 is the 10 year anniversary of when I started modding ioquake3. It was my third attempt at creating a Ninja Turtle fangame within a three year time period. I intend to release Spearmint 1.0 as the end result of 10 years of working on the Quake 3 engine. On October 10th I’m…

“There should be a new Turtle Arena 0.7 release in the near-future, hopefully next month.” —March 30, 2013 “hahahahaha. By ‘next month’ I obviously meant 2017.” —November 3, 2015 I am planning to release Spearmint 0.5 and Turtle Arena 0.7 on Friday the 13th of October 2017. Turtle Arena 0.7 is does not fix any…

I am nearing the end of my 11th year of game development. I’ve spent about a 2 years working with Sonic Robo Blast 2 (Doom Engine), about 3 months with SDL 1.2 / OpenGL 1.x, about 8 years with Quake 3, and whatever the last year was. I’m currently working toward making a new Spearmint release and hopefully a new Turtle Arena release in the…

I started thinking about the game design for the Turtle Arena successor, Extraordinary Beat X, at the beginning of 2016. It was the first time I seriously thought about it since 2013.

Today’s Spearmint release is canceled due to my lack of interest in developing it. No future release dates are ready to be announced at this time. I’ve barely done any game development since Spearmint 0.4 was released in July 2016.

Spearmint engine development is still happening, development on Turtle Arena and Extraordinary Beat X is on hold. Plus I’m probably going to port the game code for RTCW and ET to Spearmint before focusing on Turtle Arena or EBX. It will probably be `a few’ more months before I focus on game development instead of…

I posted some EBX info: some concept art, game design document, some character info. See http://ztm.x10host.com/ebx/. EBX hasn’t been progressing much, though it is finally a separate project from Turtle Arena on github and has a few small differences. Turtle Arena is also on github now as well, following ioquake3 which moved to github in…

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything about the projects I’m working on, due to life happenings and well, working on the projects. Spearmint ioq3ztm, the engine project I started by porting Turtle Arena features to a new ioquake3 source, has been renamed to Spearmint. It easier to say and makes it clearer that the…

Unfortunately Turtle Arena 0.6, which had be planned for release tomorrow, is not ready yet. I wasn’t able to work on it much lately (where does time go?). I was able to (almost) finish the main three items from the last post. Not-quite-done: Add menu for entering name at the end of Arcade Mode. Done:…

Nearly everything planned to be included in Turtle Arena 0.6 is done now, but it’s not quite ready yet. Turtle Arena 0.6 is scheduled for release Friday March 16th 2012. I think this is a realistic date. It give time to complete last few things, test it, fix any last minute bugs, package it, and…

Turtle Arena 0.6 is planned to be released by the end of the month! That give just two weeks to finish it! Some major changes have been held back until the 0.8 release, mainly the new title and characters. I decided it would be best to have a new stable release now instead of having…