In my previous post, I presented a simple FontFamily class.  This was just the first step in being able to render large blocks of text for my upcoming detective game, The Colon Case.

When SFML renders text on the screen, it will only wrap that text to a new line if the string actually contains …

Slow but steady, progress is being made on my upcoming detective game, The Colon Case.  With basic character movement well behind me, the next main feature to tackle will involve examining items on the map.  Following that will be dialog with NPCs.  Both of these features will requir…

It's been a few months since I last posted about my next game, The Colon Case.  I've actually been reasonably (sporadically?) active on the project, but took a little detour over the past month to learn how to build C++ projects using CMake.

I'm happy to say that the source code for The Colon C…

For my current game under development, The Colon Case, I'll be using the Tiled map editor to build the tile sets and maps.  I'll also have lots of other game data, and I plan to store all of it in JSON format.

With my previous game, The Garden of Eating, I decided to use the JsonCpp library to …

I managed to get the player character responding to user input, including basic sprite animation, in reasonably short order!  The screen locks its view on the player while moving.  The grass graphic is temporary here -- it was one of the grass images from The Garden of Eating. ? 

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I've recently had a resurgence in motivation to get back going on some 2D game development.  This game will be called The Colon Case.  It's a story-driven murder mystery with a slight film noir edge.  You'll need to search for clues and interrogate potential suspects to solve a bizar…