Just came up with the awesome idea today for a map in Age of Empires III.   One less noted feature of the game is the fact that units slow down when being attacked.   It might be interesting therefore to have a racing game between players.   The strat would be to attack the enemy in order to slow them down, but risk stopping in order to attack, supposing you are using a ranged unit.   There would be walls along the path to allow opponents to catch up as you are attempting to bust through it.   Simultaneously, there would be bonus units you can kill (and waste time on) that would grant you XP.   Reaching certain levels of XP shall upgrade your unit.

        My idea is that you would start at a melee unit, go to a ranged unit, then to an area-damage melee unit, and finally an area-damage ranged unit.

        Of course all units would have the same speed.

        The map sounds fairly simple and I hope I get a chance to work on it later this week!

        I just saw The Grudge 2  today.   It was okay - I didn’t really find it scary.   You could always predict what’s going to happen and the characters all did basically everything people would never do.   Several times they split up (okay they said “Wait here, I’ll check it out!” but same thing ) and many times they wandered far off into the middle of nowhere alone.

        I did get some pretty neat ideas for spoof though .     If time permits, I might create a short skit “The Grudge: Santa Claus”.   The idea would be Santa delivering presents one Christmas Eve and happening upon that Haunted House.   He’d enter the chimney, gain the curse, and return to the North Pole with it.   What would happen then??? :O   I’m not sure what game engine to use, and indeed I am pretty busy.   I hope I do have time to make it though.   For sure, it’d be hilarious

        Argh - today was not one of the best days for me.   I got out of my class late and by the time I got to the cafeteria for lunch, the line was goshdarn long.   Rather than stand for half an hour, I just went to one of the snack machines, which still had a line but not nearly as long and bought a few snackbars.

        I am never buying another one again.   Not much later during the next period, I got ill and threw up after I left the class.   Fortunately I managed to get to a restroom before I did so, but I am not happy about that.   Throwing up sucks - I can’t recall when I last felt that sick.