Comments on: Postmortem

By: NightFlyer Games » Ludum Dare 17 Results are Released

NightFlyer Games » Ludum Dare 17 Results are Released — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:24:11 +0000

[...] The numbers are generally consistent with how I thought I had placed. Invasive wasn’t much fun to play, and it had a trivial but tedious winning strategy. Graphically it wasn’t very special, and it had no Audio at all! You can find my post-mortem discussion here. [...]

By: Hamumu

Hamumu — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:57:10 +0000

I don’t worry about quitting early… I’m an old man, and about halfway through Sunday (in my timezone, LD ends at 7pm on Sunday), I always decide that’s good enough and just polish up a couple of loose ends, zip it up and go for a walk. I always find that by that point, I’m just completely burned. I could get more done, but why smash yourself when the actual work week is starting the next morning? Of course, I also take it really easy on that next work day too. LD is a mentally draining experience!

By: TFernando

TFernando — Sat, 01 May 2010 06:19:23 +0000

AFAIK, AS3 doesn’t allow for C-style pointers, BUT… I could store in each map cell the array index for each object in the cell.

At the moment, those indicies change as the arrays grow and shrink, but I could make them fixed with a little additional overhead for each add/remove (I’d have to flag dead objects and over-write them rather than just splicing them off.) Since the add/remove happens infrequently compared to the collision checks that should be a decent trade in exchange for flattening the nest.

Thank you!

By: jplur

jplur — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:48:17 +0000

Interesting post mortem.

Regarding the collision checks, if the map grid can store pointers to objects inside it, (and kiwis store a pointer to the tile they are on) then you can slim it down a bit.

For EACH kiwi:
if other things in kiwi’s tile:
interact with them