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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Revision numbers considered harmful
When using Subversion for vertion control, I was always conscious of revision numbers when committing. It was as if there was a limited supply of revision numbers, and I didn’t want to waste them making tiny commits. So, I’d often bend over backwards to make sure the change was significant enough to be “commit-worthy”. It’s [...]
Rubyweekend Post-mortem
What went right: The character art came out well. I was really happy with my original game concept, even though the actual game didn’t live up to it. The code is pretty clean, IMO. I got it to a playable state (altho not very fun). What went wrong: I spent too much time on the [...]
Election Year: Zombies vs. Pirates!
Done! Here’s my entry for RubyWeekend #1! You can follow my previous entries in the zombies-vs-pirates rubyweekend section (they didn’t appear on the home page or in RSS feeds). Here’s the premise of the game: It’s another election year, and the two major political parties, the Zombie Party and the Pirate Party, have chosen their [...]
Screenshot (vertical meters)
I added a VerticalMeter class, a subclass of Meter with a vertical orientation. I’m using it for the volume level, as you can see here: I’m also going to add a “Moderator Annoyance” meter – the ninja moderator gets more and more annoyed over time, and especially fast if the players are loud! When the [...]
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Start of day 3
About 10 hours and 40 minutes left as I write this. It’s starting to turn into an actual game now; you can mash the space bar to shout and increase your volume meter, and the computer player “AI” does the same (random chance per frame to shout; it looks pretty good, actually). There’s exponential decay [...]
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Game loop
I’ve got a proper game loop now, with event handling. It even goes through rounds and phases and stuff, although they’re not very interesting yet. The game looks the same as it did before, so I won’t bother with a screenshot. The internals have changed a ton, though: Implemented Game class, which sets up and [...]
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Git tip: Fix a mistake in a previous commit