{"author_name":"sgstair","cat":"LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 20, 2008 2:22 am","epoch":1208676120,"text":"That’s pretty neat, running on top of the desktop","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"phren","time":"April 20, 2008 2:33 am","epoch":1208676780,"text":"Woah, very cool idea!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"sgstair","time":"April 20, 2008 2:42 am","epoch":1208677320,"text":"the “stuff on desktop” has been a bit of a pet project for me, I don’t get to do as much with it as I’d like, so this has been an opportunity to do something really interesting with it \":)\"","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Dathgale","time":"April 20, 2008 3:16 am","epoch":1208679360,"text":"Ah, creative. It has almost the feel of a hologram the way it floats in front of everything without clearing the screen. Can you still interact with the desktop while playing?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"sgstair","time":"April 20, 2008 3:30 am","epoch":1208680200,"text":"Yes, it’s using “Layered windows” – so everything on the desktop continues to update. The individual “sprites” are actually windows, so they can be clicked on (right-clicking on them is the way to exit in this build :P) – I’m going to add a context menu and try to make it pause when you switch to something not in the game.
\n (edit: layered, not overlapped – starting to get tired…)","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1208676000,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75156","p_author":"sgstair","p_authorkey":"230","p_urlkey":"110988","p_title":"Now getting somewhere!","p_cat":"LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008","p_event":"LD11","p_time":"1208676000","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"5","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"230","us_name":"sgstair","us_username":"\/author\/sgstair\/","event_start":"1208476800","event_key":"87","event_name":"LD11"},"text":"

I’ve been pretty secretive, not wanting to show off my tech, but it’s occurred to me that it doesn’t really matter that much; So, here’s the current status of my game:<\/p>\n

\"sgstair<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m very happy with the tech, it’s performing admirably with even dozens of\u00a0 sprites on my system – I’m basicly making an asteroids game, but\u00a0 I think this counts as minimal (it’s so minimal it doesn’t even have a background, ha!) – Just finished the majority of the asteroid code (creation \/ movement \/ collision), and I’m now going on to make a ship and a way to shoot. Which I expect won’t take too long. I’m expecting to complete sound effects but I don’t think I’ll get to music.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: journal<\/a>, LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008<\/a>, screenshot<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 20th, 2008 2:20 am","title":"Now getting somewhere!"}