Wow… That was a lot of fun! \u00a0I got a reasonable amount of sleep, but still ended getting stuck in a “depth first” trap on both Saturday and Sunday. \u00a0Sunday’s involved a mechanic of removing dead branches if the user clicked on them. \u00a0I spent a couple of hours trying to refactor enough code to get it to work, and ended up only with better looking code, without any extra functionality.<\/p>\n
Saturday was a similar issue, I spent way too long monkeying about with branch construction rules and how the state of the board should be represented given perlinspiel’s constraints.<\/p>\n
I’m really happy with the way BONSAI turned out and I’m glad that I switched to Perlinspiel from ImpactJS. \u00a0I still really like ImpactJS, but the constraint of a 32×32 grid for the game really focused my efforts on the theme at hand.<\/p>\n
If anyone wants to check out the backlog for the game, I’ve left the pivotal tracker page for this project open:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.pivotaltracker.com\/s\/projects\/814143<\/p>\n
Anyways, We’re all tired! \u00a0So congrats to everyone who entered! \u00a0Get some rest and enjoy a week or three playing with the entries! \u00a0You’ve earned it!<\/p>\n
NF<\/p>","time":"April 28th, 2013 7:50 pm","title":"DONE!!!"}