{"author_name":"Stoney","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1290784260,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69024","p_author":"Stoney","p_authorkey":"321","p_urlkey":"104827","p_title":"Extending my LD #17 entry","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1290784260","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"321","us_name":"Stoney","us_username":"stoney","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"<p>Well, I have a lot of half-finished or unfinished projects, so choosing from them took me a while but I finally decided on my LD #17 entry &#8220;A Practical Survival Guide for Robots&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-17\/?uid=321\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-17\/?uid=321<\/a>.<\/p>\n <p>The plan is to make this game available on the Intel AppUp Store and probably the Mac App Store afterwards. (For free of course, I personally don&#8217;t think that anyone would buy this game if it would be a commercial product.)<\/p>\n <p><strong>What is the current status?<\/strong><\/p>\n <p><strong><\/strong>Since LD #17 I&#8217;ve been working on the game every now and then. So what exactly changed since LD #17?<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Rewrote the texture loader (The game is now fully working on Intel GMA 950 and similar Intel integrated chipset graphics)<\/li>\n <li>Rewrote major parts of the engine (With the might of inline the engine feels now about 2 &#8211; 3 times faster than before <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> )<\/li>\n <li>The robot is now moving much faster (and since I implemented a delta time function in my engine, it&#8217;s moving at the same speed on all computers)<\/li>\n <li>The game is now resolution independent up to Full-HD (1920&#215;1080 pixels): While the title screen image will be scaled, you just see more of the game world on higher resolutions than 1024&#215;600 pixels.<\/li>\n <li>There are now always four islands at the starting point with a few resources to get you started<\/li>\n <li>Better alternation of day and night (instead of just getting darker, there is slight red-ish coloring in the evening and yellow-\/orange-ish coloring in the morning)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p><span id=\"more-28860\"><\/span><\/p>\n <p>Here is a screenshot of the current status (from last Screenshot Saturday):<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/apsgfr_101120.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/apsgfr_101120-300x189.png\" alt=\"A Practical Survival Guide for Robots 101120\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/apsgfr_101120-300x189.png 300w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/apsgfr_101120-550x347.png 550w, http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/apsgfr_101120.png 1090w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n <p><strong>What is planned?<\/strong><\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Originally, game tips and trivia have been displayed in the bottom bar as &#8220;Did you know?&#8221;. I intend to split that up. Signs in the game world will show game tips and the trivia will be labeled &#8220;Fun Facts&#8221;. (I already began this task, but I&#8217;m not done with that yet.)<\/li>\n <li>Chatting with aliens<\/li>\n <li>Trading with aliens (New items or boosters for collected scrap)<\/li>\n <li>New items: Flashlight (lets you stay awake longer), Compass (shows the way to your spaceship and nearby scrap), bigger reservoir (which can hold more energy and fuel)<\/li>\n <li>Energy, fuel and speed boosters<\/li>\n <li>Particle effects if you pick up energy, fuel or use boosters<\/li>\n <li>Better camera management<\/li>\n <li>One more thing that is bothering me that the game takes a while (about 20 &#8211; 30 secs) to load on netbooks but I&#8217;m not really sure how to fix that.<\/li>\n <\/ul>","time":"November 26th, 2010 10:11 am","title":"Extending my LD #17 entry"}