Yesterday I got a lot of emails or IM’s from people urging me to “keep at ‘er”, so thanks to everyone who sent me a note. I’m feeling much better about the state of things this morning. I think the act of just laying it all out there and listing it all out has helped me immensely.

The other thing I did yesterday was to download a free project management tool called GanttProject. It’s free software written in Java (so it runs cross-platform) that basically mimics Microsoft Project’s most basic functionality. As it’s free, it does have a lot of UI quirks (bugs) that are kind of annoying at first, but hey…you get what you pay for. At any rate, I spent a little while yesterday and kind of roughed out a schedule for the next month or so. It has made me feel a lot better about the state of things and where I’m heading.

Today I need to finish up my UML diagrams. I’ve got the main logical side of the game broken down into its new structure, but the big change that’s still to come is the conversion to more of a Model-View-Controller architecture. This is the structure that the iPhone kind of forces you to use and there’s no reason I can’t use it with Playground SDK to clean up the structure a bit.

Then tomorrow, I start recoding the prototype properly. Hooray! As they say in Galaxy Quest, “Never give up! Never surrender!” Hmm…have I just exposed some nerdy part of me that I shouldn’t have shared?

Owen

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