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1:00 PM 4\/20\/2008 – Okay, six hours to go. Looking at my original design for Resident Evil FLT_MIN<\/a>, it’s clear that I’m going to have to make a few changes. Obviously, to avoid copyright issues, I need to change the name. For now I’ll give it the working title “RE FLT_MIN”. Also, it seems like it would take only a few minutes to come up with a prototype using Flash. Unfortunately, I don’t know Flash. Plus, even though the design seems somewhat minimal, it can easily be made *more* minimal. First off, look at all those fancy graphics. Font rendering? What was I thinking?<\/p>\n

2:20 PM 4\/20\/2008 – Alright, I’ve got the first version of the game up and running. I still need to do some debugging, and put it through some usability testing… maybe a focus group. I want to post a shot of the source code, but unfortunately it doesn’t all fit on a single page. I suppose at this stage, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do some optimization.<\/p>\n

2:25 PM 4\/20\/2008 – Was able to cut code down by removing some unnecessary #includes. Also, I think it’s bad style to have un-braced if statements, but doing so cut down a large amount of vertical space.<\/p>\n

2:55 PM 4\/20\/2008 – Okay. First prototype version is ready to download and play<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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