Since HopeDagger told me the other day to make with the updates, here's one for you: I've been working on the UI system for Afterglow. It takes quite a bit of time to do it properly, but hopefully soon I'll give you some screenshots of the game running with a proper HUD.
It is still crunch time at work, so I've been too wiped out when I get home to work much on the game. Instead, I've been playing Crisis Core and The World Ends With You. Both titles are fantastic, especially World. It really takes off after a dragging introductory sequence, but I think my touch screen needs recalibration.
During my train commute, I've been reading American Psycho and Choke. Truly, my Amazon wishlist must attract Feds for miles.
Link of the day: defensive driving game. Note how your car goes faster backwards. Try locking the steering and pulling off the road in order to do backwards pedestrian-shredding donuts.
I added mouse control back into Afterglow and now you can look around while moving. It doesn't feel as good as the older game did, so I'll need to do some refining on the controls.
What's next? Unfortunately, probably not much for awhile as I have to fix up my previous term paper. I'll be doing that this weekend and week.
I've been working on the UI manager for Afterglow. Unlike Novarunner, you won't position everything in a UI manually, but hand it to a layout manager (similarly to WPF).
Hopefully, this means I can define a UI in data and quickly iterate on it. I'll put up some screenshots once I write the rendering part of the UI library.
This took way too much forethought but now you can rub up against walls like in the original Glow. Maybe soon you'll see some actual game content.
I doubt it, though, we're still in crunch time. I'll work as much as I can, but I'm doing this entry during a quick compile break.
It's worth telling people how I implemented this, so that they can gain from my wisdom. Basically, I used vector projection; take the player's proposed movement vector, mash it up against the wall's vector, and then Bob's your uncle. It couldn't be simpler!
For those of you who stalk me mercilessly, I recently purchased a Game Boy Micro on a whim, and then ordered a bunch of videogames off Amazon. I've been trying to finish the GBA version of FF6, as I had previously grown bored of it and just toted it around in the GBA slot of my DS constantly. It's nice to be able to reunite with Shadow and his gang of miscreant ass-kickers.
For those of you who don't stalk me mercilessly, it's important that you understand that:
I have a gun,
I have already shot Mittens.
I swear to the Mord you people constantly test my boundaries.
I'm just finishing up this hilariously stupid work term report for this semester. After that's taken care of, I should be able to give you guys a screenshot of the collision detection work I've been doing.
Also, go see Iron Man. If you don't, nobody will love you.
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This took way too much forethought but now you can rub up against walls like in the original Glow. Maybe soon you'll see some actual game content.
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