It's rather stupid but that's how it went: discovering ClearType on my laptop made me instantly fall in love with Georgia, the font.

That, and code_master friendlily (?) providing me with his game design document template, pretty much macrophaged (?) my free time recently, ending up in the MS Word G…

I figured out that THAT much people want to see real-time what I see from my appartment window AND comment about it, so I post it in my journal. I'll include a permalink to this post in the journal header in no time - it's really, mainly for the comment support.

Enjoy the view:

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EDIT:

Noti…

... that's what it's all about !

In the news of the day, I am proud to announce that 2 of the 3 steps mentioned in the last post are achieved, nameley collision detection and user input.

To this latter extent, by the way, I must humbly grant significant insight-triggering to darookie: besides being t…

Wrote significant portion of the code (un-releasable, though, since I am aiming so much at playability for now, i.e. ugly all public code), both on the game logic part and graphics part, which end up yielding the following test screen:


(click for full size)

Playability is roughly 3 steps ahead:
- Co…

I guess that simply adding the previous entry in my journal had me get back to it more seriously :)

Anyway, I have finally finished my embryo of 2D engine. It's basically very inspired from traditional 3D engine architecture, only with much less functionality - functionality will be added as needed,…

It has now been something like several weeks that I started my project, and if a single word could fully account for the development process so far, it is definitely anarchy.

Despite my good will, I ended up tuning the code structure more than expected, and didn't come up with an operational Tetris …

For the last few days, I've been doing a lot of thinking as to what issues I am going to encounter during development, along while coding basic classes and drawing things on screen with SDL.

But first things first:

Fun... tris?
My idea of a 'fun' Tetris is actually pretty simple: as I don't want to si…

Everything has a start, and so it is for my child dream to become a game developper.

I am a junior software engineer, and wanting this first serious individual project to be worth something, I have been reading stuff all around the Internet - including GDnet - and joined GDnet+ today to celebrate th…