The next project of mine has already begun. It is a simple snowball fight; you pick snow up with the right mouse button, and throw it with the left mouse button. Hit the opponent, but keep moving so as to avoid being hit yourself. There is even a wall there.
This is usually what keeps me from completing projects; some feature being uncontrollably more to manage than what I first thought it would be. In this case, polygon collision detection. I think two or three of my games have been abandoned simply due to this, and I now add another to the list. It even had a working scripting system, sigh.
No images from the game today. I’ve been stuck with a bit of the engine functions, mainly loading textures. Using 1600×1200 24-bit PNGs (for a 1024×768 background, even) turned out to be a bad idea, but even resizing them to 1024×768 leaves loading times of at least a few seconds. This is in no way acceptable when transitioning from one part of the map to the next, so I have to load the images when the game starts instead – to keep some sort of flow in the gameplay.
Scripting. Not the plot-writing kind, mind you. It is essential to have some sort of scripting engine if you’re not relying on procedurally generated content – and it would take too much to write a procedurally generated interesting exploration game.
I have an idea for a game. I have written/drawn a plot for said game. I have even gone so far as to begin coding this game.
That’s right, I’ve started up a new blog (third on this site, actually)! This time around, it’s for game development.
There have been discussions about “games as art” for the past few decades at the very least. Some games – specifically Portal – makes a decent example of a great game that also holds some cultural value.
I decided to try and jump onto the new fad that is Twitter (just like I did with Facebook last year, oh well). At the moment, you can see my latest tweets (updates) in the sidebar to the left.
Come to think of it, I should also get around to fixing the RSS feed on this site. Well, there’s a project for “tomorrow”.
In my utopia, you are not denounced because of a different nationality (eg. American, Iraqi, Estonian, Chinese). I am aware that national culture affects how you act, but this doesn’t mean you’re necessarily like that, just because you come from that country.
I’ve had many people ask me about today. And it is a special day, a lot is happening.
First, it’s Summer Solstice, a great reason to celebrate, at least for us Nordic people. This means quite a few invitations, including one for my own family’s yearly reunion – which I’ll be skipping this year, for the first time ever.