{"author_name":"lucasvb","cat":"LD #21","comments":[],"epoch":1313856780,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"64319","p_author":"lucasvb","p_authorkey":"5192","p_urlkey":"100106","p_title":"Some progress!","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1313856780","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"5192","us_name":"lucasvb","us_username":"lucasvb","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

In the wise words of Ash Williams from Army \u00a0of Darkness: “Oh nooo! I’ve slept too much!”<\/p>\n

But having your batteries charged makes a big \u00a0difference. I can already think clearer than before. Here’s a simple screenshot:<\/p>\n

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What I’ve got so far:<\/p>\n

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  1. Moving between rooms engine.<\/li>\n
  2. Crappy collision detection (improving that now)<\/li>\n
  3. Layers! You can walk behind stuff!<\/li>\n
  4. Walking and running, with animation. Looks pretty good in game. Running animation is just a sped-up walking animation right now.<\/li>\n
  5. The character also blinks. Not a huge thing, but these details are the things that bring life to characters.<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Now to fix the collision and make locked doors and interactive objects.<\/p>\n

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    Since I don’t have a lot of time to code anything complex, everything is being hardcoded and precomputed. Here’s what the collision map looks like:<\/p>\n

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    Green is ground. If a color has red=255, it means it’s \u00a0a doorway or a “transitional object”. Run into it, and the game will pick up the blue component of the color as an ID.<\/p>\n

    This ID is used to load another room with a fade-out fade-in transition. Simple stuff.<\/p>\n

    The ID is not unique for the game, but for the room. \u00a0This means that, in a single room, I can have “doorways” \u00a0to up to 256 other rooms. Ain’t that cute?<\/p>\n

    (Currently, I’m just loading the same room over and over. It’s actually quite creepy. I think I’m gonna use this!)<\/p>\n

    When I change a rooms, I have a state object that gives me the previous room name. I can use this to place the character in the proper location in the new room, as well as run state-specific events later.<\/p>\n

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    All right, enough talking. Must write more code!<\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2011 11:13 am","title":"Some progress!"}