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Die die die you robot army scum!<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m making some progress. Right now you can drop a bomb on the robot army, and if the blast radius intersects with something explosive, that also explodes. \u00a0Now it’s time to get the jeeps and robots patrolling about.<\/p>\n

I wasted a good chunk of time dealing with particle emitter bugs I introduced into the library. (Oops.) When the explosions start chaining it makes Flash chug a bit, but I have to tweak the particle effects later anyway; I’ll probably trim the particle count and add some pre rendered bits. Another time waster was fiddling with the art instead of just using temporary art. If I had placeholdered instead, I’d be at the halfway mark with balanced game mechanics instead of just starting that. And I also wasted energy putting together a random level generator, which is cool, but it’s not very balanced, and it took several hours to do. \u00a0Someday I’ll learn…<\/p>\n

Now that it’s 8:30pm where I am, here comes the difficult decision: Do I caffeinate???<\/p>","time":"December 14th, 2013 6:34 pm","title":""}