Anyway, I was hoping to get some basecode ready for the compo for once, but it’s still missing some critical stuff (like sound, lack of bugs, etc), and while I could post what I’ve got so far and then work more on that during the compo, I don’t see that ending well for either the basecode or any eventual game. So.. I’ll just go from scratch, or maybe try Flash again or something.

Well, almost. I do have one little thing I’ve been fiddling with lately: dgl! Calling it “basecode” is a bit of a stretch though, it’s really just a dynamic OpenGL loader and extension detector. Similar to GLEE and the like, except it’s smaller (less than 40k compiled), only covers the GL parts (no GLX/WGL/etc, you pass it a function pointer to use for resolving symbols, works great with SDL), and also it loads everything dynamically, not just extension functions (this actually makes cross-compiling from Linux to Windows much easier). Oh, and it’s a work in progress (most things work though), and I’ve given it a zlib-like license. If this sounds interesting, you can get it here: dgl-wip-ld20.tar.gz. (Not sure if I’ll actually use OpenGL for the compo yet, but I’m posting this just in case.)

And now, I’m off to replace my slightly broken Linux install with Ubuntu 11.04, new Unity interface and all. What could possibly go wrong? This is surely an excellent idea at this point in time.

[edit: turns out it wasn't. in my defense though, i really did need to fix my linux install. oh well, better luck next time..]

Anyways, you can get it here

(click for anim)

I somewhat doubt this’ll be done for the compo, or even the jam, but I’m not giving up just yet. Have some ideas.. Even if nothing comes of this though, I’ve learned a lot, so it hasn’t been a waste.

(Click the image to animate)

Been a while since I successfully entered an LD apparently, so I’ll try to do something about that. Haven’t decided what to use for this one yet, but hey, that’s what the first few hours of the compo is for… right?

Also done some music bits. Most of the time has been spent working on things behind the scenes; mostly graphics processing stuff and sound mixing.

Had to disable fullscreen mode since SDL does something weird with the audio callback there (I need that to work for audio/visual synchronization, which I definitely want to do), but otherwise it actually works now. There’s even a simple level generator (wip), so for once I’m actually going to have some levels =)

If it gets done, that is. I kinda doubt this is going to be done before the deadline. Still have to add player and enemy characters, and interaction, and lots of other stuff, and I don’t know if I can do much more today. Still want to see how the game turns out though, so I’ll probably finish it sometime regardless.

Good luck to everyone else.

Now, time to get started on the actual game! I wish I had any good ideas. Guess I’ll just start making a platform engine and see where it goes from there…

So, exploration. Not sure what I’m going to do yet, but it’s probably going to be a platformer of some sort. Kinda want to do something ala Monty on the Run or Dizzy, but we’ll see.

Right now though I’ll go fix some bugs in slug: Mode switching corrupts the graphics, and mouse coordinates aren’t scaled right. Might add some new features too, though I suppose I should wait until I actually need them now that the compo has started and all. In fact, I’m not even sure I’m going to use slug at all, might try to go for a Flash game again instead. Time to  make up my mind =]

Oh, and here’s some eggs I had for breakfast:

A bit rough around the edges and messy code, but it seems to work for what it does.  (Here’s a readme.)

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Need sleep now.

Anyway, I don’t have much to show for yesterday. My code can draw animated tiles and tilemaps (scrolled) into a rectangle, but that’s about it. Oh, and maintain correct aspect ratio no matter what size it’s rendering at. Originally I wanted to support fullscreen, but apparently flash disables keyboard in fullscreen mode for some reason, so it’s not very useful unless I do a mouse-controlled game, which I probably won’t. You can still just plop the swf directly in the browser to fill the browser window though.

Also, I think I got an idea now. Don’t know if it’ll be good yet, but at least it’s something. Time to draw some gfx.

I also sampled some homemade bacon ice cream that a flatmate decided to make. This was an interesting experience. Not pleasant, but not as unpleasant as one might expect either.

Still no real game idea though. Will take a shower now and think about things.

What I do know, however, is that I’m going to use flash for this compo, which will be interesting because I’ve never done anything in flash before. I don’t even know the language, so if anyone got a link to a quick reference of ActionScript 3 that’d be nice =). I did read through a tutorial over the past few days and tried out some example code though.

Right now I’m going to eat some breakfast, maybe take a shower, and then it’s up and away into the unknown! _{Or maybe down, considering the theme.}

It’s actually kinda fun to play with already. Not much of a game though ..

Hello! For windows and linux, plus source of course. I scrapped my original game and made this instead.

Still, I’ve now got a black screen that tweets! This can’t possibly go wrong.