Since the development of my next project has passed its first half (and it is near completion I think, but I cannot say this for sure), I think time has come to begin announcing what it is. It is an iPhone game.

First of all let me explain why I consider this to be my real first project. There are three reasons:

• I actually have two applications pubblished, so why should this be the first one? Speaking of implementation times (that differ from the pubblication ones), Heicos came first. It was a project I started some years ago with another person, that abandoned the project after a while (I talked about it in more details on my blog). The app was an idea of his, even if the implementation is totally mine. I will explain someday what the consequences of this choice are. For now I just say that I never considered it fully my project, even if I was the only one working on it.
  Startrail came out all by itself. It started as a little exercise on some Mac OS X technologies, was first released as a freeware and then its success made it a real project. So this third progect is actually the first coming out entirely from my mind and depending solely on my decisions.
• I always loved games. I spended lot of my teenage time playing videogames and always dreamed of creating one. This will not be a complex game as I always wished, but this is my first real game and I'm writing it all alone, so this is as much as I can do, for now. I hope that someday I will have the resources to create more complex games.
• My second love (in computer science) is artificial intelligence. This is the field in which I specialized in my graduation years. Implementing this game allows me to "get my hands dirty", transforming the theories I studied in something that actually works.