So we are doing an HTML 5 based game targetting canvas. Only minor math and sprite libraries we previously generated have been used. So far here are the check-in stats:<\/p>\n
5 developers, 7085 LOC, one of the devs is pumping out 257 LOC per hour worked on the project.<\/p>\n
Completed list of items (not in any particular order):<\/p>\n
Canvas Sprite Engine
\n Parallax Tree to enable a star field
\n Multi-level star field
\n Interactive Environments
\n Collidable Obstacles with special properties for bullets
\n Single Screen State Manager (we didn’t want screens or transitions, everything flows based on a single screen state)
\n Collision Detection Engine (a multi-layer collision detection engine for handling enemies, bullets, etc…)
\n Over 80 custom sprites and graphics
\n Multiple Ship Designs
\n Full interactive in game credits
\n Input Manager
\n Multiple Input Modes
\n Konami Code Support
\n Ghost Replay Mechanism
\n Windows Azure\u00a0Server setup for Leaderboards and some Secret Sauce
\n Powerups
\n Interactive Game Over and Replay
\n A Highly Optimized Bullet System for optimum Performance<\/p>\n
Its fully playable now and we are incorporating our core evolution concept now. Should be fun!<\/p>","time":"August 25th, 2012 10:47 pm","title":"The client side portion of our game is almost done. Here are the code stats and list of retired tasks."}