so, i think i might be done for the night! i’ve been straying away from my original goal just implementing stuff that’s fun to do. in order for me to continue down my path, i have to redo how my maps work so the player can trigger reading the notes like i wanted. i didn’t plan well enough, but i never do. instead, i implemented projectiles! right now, they only fire to the right and don’t disappear. need to make them vanish on collision or after distance traveled/time so they don’t end up killing my fps eventually! oh, and my game kinda shifted from a topdown view to a sidescroller/platformer. i’m torn on which i like better!

but, here’s a pic with me going crazy w/projectiles. not sure yet if i’ll do anymore tonight or tomorrow.

alright, this is too fun to work on despite having school final projects to work on. no idea if i’ll actually finish this but for once i’m getting stuff done! made a better map system reading in from a file, added camera scrolling/zooming so you can move it however much you want. here’s a pic!

…weird thing happening with the note image. alpha mask is set to 255,0,255 yet it makes it black and i don’t understand why. it works fine for my character image.

made some more progress. added a few terrible images i drew and made a basic map reading from a text file. thinking i’m going to quit soon… we’ll see.

so… has anyone else started out trying to write clean, object oriented code, only to have 95% of it end up in main.cpp as spaghetti code?

7 am… think i better get to sleep. made some progress. tried adding in message boxes, but it still needs some work. it’s super spaghetti code to the extreme, but it’s something. i have a feeling i won’t get much more done the rest of the weekend. i really should be working on my two final projects instead!

i’ve always wanted to participate this, but i’ve never had time. even this weekend is pretty much the worst possible time for me… but i want to at least try to submit something. just finished eating and sitting here watching toy story 3 for some reason while trying to think of an idea.

i think i’m going to do something based on a guy, almost having lost hope in everything. however, one day he discovers a message left behind. this leads him to wander around discovering messages from a loved one, possibly a father that was never known. these are encouraging messages that will help you make it through the dangerous world all alone.

i’m using c++ and sfml+box2d. i’m a terrible programmer, and an even more terrible artist. who knows if i’ll be able to get anything going. it’s almost 5 am already. then again i took like a 5 hour nap so i’m sorta wired. afriad my sleep schedule will get screwed! for now, here’s a picture of my work space and some code i have so far.