{"author_name":"alyphen","cat":"LD #24","comments":[],"epoch":1345922940,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"53179","p_author":"alyphen","p_authorkey":"504365","p_urlkey":"88881","p_title":"Progress report 3","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345922940","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"504365","us_name":"alyphen","us_username":"alyphen","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

Well, it’s been a good day.<\/p>\n

UK time, I woke up at 4am, which was 2 hours after the competition started and I’ve been up since.<\/p>\n

I’ve made a lot of progress and pretty much the entire game mechanics is laid out now. The companion AI is almost done, though I somehow managed to break the sprite flipping when the kitten switches direction.<\/p>\n

The glacier level is now pretty much done, so I’ll work on the last few levels, evolving monsters (in addition to your evolving companion) and perhaps a bit of polish, bugfixing, and if I get lucky, online multiplayer tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The “story” sorta works. There’s a scrolling chatbox at the bottom of the screen that displays things as they happen. I need to work on my writing skills a bit \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

The enemies now take advantage of their blend mode and flash the opposite colour upon being hit. They also change colour depending on where they are, which is nice.<\/p>\n

So, here’s a final screenie of the Glacier level before I go to bed (I might rename it Mountain later, it isn’t really “glacier”-y enough to be called a glacier :3)<\/p>\n

\"Glacier<\/a>

Glacier level in it’s current state<\/p><\/div>","time":"August 25th, 2012 2:29 pm","title":"Progress report 3"}