Category Archives: RubyWeekend

My worries of not finishing were exaggerated, it seems. Barring disasters tomorrow, I think I should be able to have a playable and possibly even fun game at the end of the contest. I’ve made a solid BigMoth class, which implements the behavior for moving towards a target and changing color. One thing I’m really [...]

Okay, it’s a lame screenshot, but here it is. The progress so far: Game runs and has a loop Moth sprite appears and follows around your cursor Moth sprite changes color when you click. Not much, but more than I had before…

I’m pretty sure I won’t finish my game this weekend. There’s a ton of work stuff I have to finish before the end of the month, and new stuff keeps popping up that I have to take care of. I really need to establish a schedule, and say that I won’t answer any emails on [...]

The sun and moon Solunar Moth graphics, at double the size it’ll appear in the game.

Here’s an expanded/refined concept for my RubyWeekend #2 game. Like last time, I’m not going to put all the posts about it on the home page, so it won’t spam your RSS readers. I’ll put up the announcements and big stuff, but if you want to follow everything, you should check the rubyweekend section. The [...]

A quick blog post with my crazy game idea for the RubyWeekend #2 contest. The idea is a half-sun half-moon guy (kinda like this). You move him around with the mouse, and switch between sun and moon to make moths go into a box. (The moths don’t like the light, so if you are sun [...]

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 [...]