Metaphorical Journeys of Happenstance, by Ravuya

Once a month journal post

I'm surprisingly deluged with a combination of schoolwork and vidjagames so I've been quite lazy on doing new stuff.

New stuff (according to my bug tracker):

Afterglow: AI disables when it gets far enough away from you properly no...

Pretty much dead

I'm not really dead, but I might as well be for all the progress I've been making over the last few weeks. I started my last semester, and although it's not terribly hard, I'm not feeling the motivation. Hopefully that will return soon, since all I'...

Editorial bias

I've been working a bit on the entity functionality of the Afterglow editor; my dream objective is to spend a lot less time in TextMate tweaking text files and keying off coordinates by hand like I've done in previous games.

I've budgeted ...

I'm alive!

I just finished out my summer work term last week, and so I've been taking it fairly easy this week.

Some notable updates, though:

Afterglow can now fully deserialize from disk; I'm now playing the game entirely from datafiles instead ...

Afterglow Updates

I'm working on some more stuff for Afterglow.

New:

Explosions look way better.
Went out and looked for musicians; found one, and will start looking for artists as well soon. If you can draw sprites or know someone who...

Thog push button, make post.

Some busy updates to Afterglow, but nothing immediately visible, I fear.

The player can die and respawn; when you get killed it goes to a "mission failed" screen similar to the original game. Still working on this to make it pop more and b...

Prepare for ULTRALOUNGE

I have succeeded Oluseyi as GDNet Lounge Moderator/Fascist, fulfilling the prophecy handed down by the Rhino to nes8bit two thousand years ago today.

As the new Lounge moderator, I will be enacting sweeping reforms, which I shall post about in the...

Penance

Sorry I haven't made an update in the last little while, but I have been working on Afterglow.

New:

Rotation of decals - blood, etc is rotated slightly in order to 'change up' the visuals. Thanks, Scott.
Transitions...

There's no place like home

In Afterglow, I got the homing bullet implant working after harassing SHilbert with math so simple I have literally solved it before.

On the plus side, you can ...

Video!

You can compare this to my previous Afterglow video to see just how far the game has come. I will be working tonight on adding more 'flair' such as scorch marks from explosions, better blood effects and bullet holes in the walls.

Progress!

There is some progress coming; I've fixed a bunch of hinky bugs with the blood spraying and I'm adding UI tooltips to the inventory panel as well as "implant effects" to visually inform the player of what's going on with their implant loadout.

Spritz spritz sploosh.

As promised, I'm starting to implement blood. This means I've done a bunch of hacking to my decal manager and actually have some pretty clever stuff going on in blood decal creation.
They're ...

Long Weekend

I just had an excellent long weekend in which I didn't think about my day job at all.

Implemented this weekend:

Functional implants (for now, only healing and speed boost - later, shield, targeting boost, homing bullets and...