After a grueling 24 hours, I can confidentally say I’ve gotten most of the mechanics done and can now focus almost entirely on content.\u00a0 I have a couple of small tasks that I need to finish up (extend the collision system to have a trigger collision type and fix the order in which things are drawn), but the bulk of the hard work has been finished.<\/p>\n
The gist of my project is that you’re a freelance construction worker, namely you own a bulldozer and you pick up odd jobs bulldozing anything and anyone who gets in your way on the inner-city streets of a soon-to-be-named urban town!\u00a0 It’ll mainly be puzzle-oriented, as you have to move debris and other items over the roadways to either clear a path or get to a certain location, but we’ll see what else I can do with it.\u00a0 I don’t have any screen shots now since everything is placeholder art, but hopefully with the next update I’ll be able to showcase some pretty pictures.<\/p>\n
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of this weekend is that I am absolutely horrible at doing effective collision detection and response.\u00a0 That part of the code is enough to make anyone cringe I am sure, and I’m dead certain that there has to be better ways of doing it than how I’ve done it.\u00a0 That said, what I got up in running works (well, there’s some minor quirks that occur, but nothing too distracting, and actually makes the game more interesting), so I won’t plan on monkeying around with it any longer unless I have no other choice (ie, turns out to be a bottleneck or something).<\/p>","time":"December 7th, 2008 5:15 am","title":"Progress!"}