{"author_name":"Covenant","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[],"epoch":1304173140,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"66502","p_author":"Covenant","p_authorkey":"326","p_urlkey":"102298","p_title":"Got a character!","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304173140","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"326","us_name":"Covenant","us_username":"covenant","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"<p>This has been slow going, but on the bright side, my character doesn&#8217;t look like total puke (just like semi-puke)! <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n <p>After a great lunch, courtesy of my awesome wife:<\/p>\n <p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-47239\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/04\/30\/got-a-character\/img_6510\/\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_6510-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>got the character moving through the level, with collision detection (my old nemesis&#8230; I always get stuck on this and end up with ugly code!)&#8230; Even have a small shadow on his feet (helps the visuals, not looking like he&#8217;s floating)&#8230; The ground texture now seems terrible, so I probably need to work on that (think I just need to tweak the contrast a bit)&#8230;<\/p>\n <p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-47246\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/04\/30\/got-a-character\/screen03-4\/\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screen03-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screen03-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/screen03-550x430.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p>Now I need to take a step back and think what I want to do with the game from here on&#8230; Current task list:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><del>Framework working<\/del><\/li>\n <li><del>Loading a level data (from a DDS image)<\/del><\/li>\n <li><del>Rendering the level (3d generated from the level data)<\/del><\/li>\n <li><del>Drawing the character<\/del><\/li>\n <li><del>Rendering character<\/del><\/li>\n <li>Design levels\/items so I know what to implement<\/li>\n <li>Spawn points<\/li>\n <li>Bind spawn points to scripting events<\/li>\n <li>Draw &#8220;old man&#8221; and do speech system (seems like a polish thing, but it&#8217;s kind of important&#8230;)<\/li>\n <li>Give and take objects to the player (through scripting)<\/li>\n <li>Spawn creatures and give them rudimentary AI (also through scripts)<\/li>\n <li>\u2026.<\/li>\n <\/ul>","time":"April 30th, 2011 9:19 am","title":"Got a character!"}