Its been quite a week. Unfortunately, my game isn’t in a submittable state quite yet. But hopefully, by the end of tomorrow, I’ll have something which is completable. The project has come with its own lessons and plenty of surprises. I thought I might list a few:

• Networking is a nightmare to debug… with a debugger, but really easy with a bunch of well placed printf statements
• By writing algorithms down on paper, everything seems to work second attempt (I’ll give examples in a later post)
• A* is really easy to implement, but getting the characters to follow the path is the difficult part
• Two monitors makes things much nicer
• SFML is a really nice library to use
• Once networking is out of the way, programming the rest is much easier
• I get “in the groove’ when listening to music
• Keeping the games synchronized was almost too easy

What I’ve got left to do is:

1. Implement fighting and collisions between people’s minions. (yes, I haven’t done that yet)
2. Add a win condition
3. Make the settings dialog
4. Make the sound effects play

Hopefully I can get that all done by tomorrow… hopefully….