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This is my mentor. His name is Brian Lewis (aka EvilPuffBall). He is a self taught programmer with a good amount of experience with the Win32 API. Our experience differs, as I have more experience with MUD's then he does, but as you can see we have a lot to teach each other.
One of his recent projects was a spin-off type game of Earthbound named Zombinanza. It started out fairly simple, you ran around through the levels shooting enemies and listening to the song. However, like I plan to do, he expanded it by adding new enemies, music, a final boss, loadable custom levels, and several other cool features.
Time Spent
I know it may sound almost freakish, but the total time of this project has totaled 260 hours (including writing of this presentation, engine documentation, and the paper). Impossible you say? No. I started from day one, knowing full well this would take a long time. I was planning on creating this game engine anyway, but the fact I can get school credit for it made it all the more tempting. You all may play video games, but I just make them instead.