{"author_name":"Cosine","cat":"LD #16 - Exploration - 2009","comments":[],"epoch":1260657840,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72024","p_author":"Cosine","p_authorkey":"724","p_urlkey":"107846","p_title":"Coding problems, Panic, and the all-too-familiar 53 lines of code for moving your character (WTF?)","p_cat":"LD #16 - Exploration - 2009","p_event":"LD16","p_time":"1260657840","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"724","us_name":"Cosine","us_username":"\/author\/cosine\/","event_start":"1260489600","event_key":"2","event_name":"LD16"},"text":"

Yeah, with my current game, it takes 53 lines of code for you to move, and it’s just a maze game. No wonder I’m getting a headache! With the random generation system, it accesses a data structure about a million times, and sometimes it gives me errors because some spots on the data structure don’t exist yet! I’m running out of ideas and I’m panicking quite a bit, with only about another, say, 5 hours left of good development time to get it working. Then, I have to copy the code into the other 4 directions so you can actually move around the maze.<\/p>\n

Then, I actually have to make a purpose to the game. <_> If I don’t finish, I might just make a simple preset maze, making the game much easier to make. But hey, what’s the “fun” in that?<\/p>\n

Also, since I’m required to release the source code, I’m commenting it to help clear up my head, and that of anybody who wants to take a shot at fixing the darned thing so it works. This is really giving me a hard time.<\/p>\n

But hey, no worries! I don’t have<\/em> to submit anything, now do I? \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>","time":"December 12th, 2009 5:44 pm","title":"Coding problems, Panic, and the all-too-familiar 53 lines of code for moving your character (WTF?)"}