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[AaronLee]

Even though the shot of the map, is apparently still fairly prototype, it's looking really great! I love the style and variable details just about everywhere. Definitely looking forward to seeing some footage of this in action (even if it's just one of you lot twiddling about with movement mechanics and jumping )

[agersant]

Definitely looking forward to seeing some footage of this in action (even if it's just one of you lot twiddling about with movement mechanics and jumping )

This will totally happen as soon as I get character animations. TBH, I can't wait to see it too :D

Day #017
Lots of news today but still no Line of Sight (I always find something more urgent) :
· TONS of performance optimizing, mostly on map display and pathfinding again. I now have 40+ FPS on my laptop during critical situations involving ~8 ennemies
· Added possibility to push ennemies away while guarding (useful when you're cornered)
· Some refactoring here and there, lots of code cleanup
· Found a workaround negating the memory leak mentioned some days ago
· Found (but did not fix) a bug with ennemies being able to dodge Loud Stomp (the same way they could dodge Blind Strike. The fix will be similar.)

[agersant]

Day #018
· Fixed the Loudstomp bug mentioned yesterday
· Started making the map editor aware of scripting data. It's now possible to use it to add/remove NPCs and triggers. These are displayed with a different icon depending on wether the XML files they need are found or not. Hopefully, I'll do a bit more work on that tomorrow so that I can add "on map load scripts" awareness to the editor too.

Also, I'm very tired. My days are basically made of programming for my dayjob and then evening/night coding for this game. I don't remember doing anything else for the last 7 days but I'm far from burning out =)

[agersant]

Day #019
· Editor can now handle all scripting data (NPCs, triggers and on load scripts) in a convenient way
· Wrote XML validation for map files. This had been on my todo list for AGES because I wasn't too hot about writing the required regex. It was indeed awful :

· Added new properties to maps (+editor commands) in order to tell apart the playable area from the non-reachable one. I'll try to get the non-reachable area to display as a single bitmap to speed up things.

As a personnal reminder, my current todo list has :
· Line of sight
· Display non playable area as panorama
· Monster spawning sources and algorithms
· Some kind of dialog choice script commmand
· Save game script command

[agersant]

Time for my daily spam !
Day #020
I got half of yesterday's todo list done in one evening, hurrah !
· Added "save game" command to scripting language. It includes the possibility to execute a different script afterward depending on the success/failure of the operation. Hurrah for scripting/Haxe/Flash/PHP/SQLite communication.
· I optimized the rendering of part of the maps that are defined as "out of boundaries".
· I finally took the time to implement the Line of Sight mechanism on targeting and it went really really quick, even though I had to take care of altitude which was not part of the traditionnal roguelike algorithm. I was scared it would take forever because I always mess geometry >.<

Eye-candy

A mouse.

[Destral]

Monsieur, with this eye-candy you're really spoiling us!

But in all seriousness, that is some skullcage-rattlingly delicious eye-candy

[agersant]

What a cute advertisement =)

Day #021
I've been slacking a bit today because I was very tired because of work. I got a few easy things done nevertheless :
· Small interface tweaks on the editor
· Made it possible to output the game's log in an HTML file. This is done automatically when the game crashes.

Eye-candy
The game's log HTML output

[agersant]

Day #022
I came home after drinking too much beers with coworkers and I was too dizzy to do important stuff. I only did some small updates to the documentation and I talked with Nate about general things (colors for the UI and pre-game screens, etc.).

I have a full day ahead of me now, I'll try to make the most out of it.

[agersant]

Day #023
Quite a boring day but lots of things one so let's call this a good one =)
· Wrote documentation about the loot generator
· Started writing documentation about the scripting language
· Coded the system that handles the spawning of ennemy waves
· Coded dialog choices
· Fixed a bug that occured when applying alpha effects to bitmap texts

That's only 4 items but they're quite big ones \o/

[agersant]

Day #024
· Finished writing documentation about the script editor

I've been slacking around many hours today ; I simply don't know where to move from here and it puts me down =(

[AaronLee]

NO GO GET EM!

Also I work on making the game shiny whenever I get downb/don't know what to do next/ am not feeling the game.

[Gabriel Verdon]

Hahaha. Ah yes.

Just keep doing one or two things everyday, your motivation will return soon.

[agersant]

Thank you guys :3

Day #025
I can't say I'm really back in business but I managed to get one or two things done tonight so I'll consider this a success.
· Put WIP attack animation in the game. My animation system works so that's cool.
· Made HUD widget that displays the items you loot from ennemies in a cool animated fashion (they pile up, each one pushing the old ones until they reach a point where they start to fade).

I still don't know what to do next though, I can't find anything I can code without some input from Nathan who is still super busy.

[agersant]

Nothing new today, I'm still stuck with an empty todo list and a busy artist. Let's hope I can find some new stuff to code or some updates from Nathan.

This empty evening made me realize how hard I had been working on this game when I found myself wondering "What am I supposed to do instead of coding ?". I ended up playing music, drawing a lame mockup (see mockups thread) and hitting F5 repeatedly on various boards and twitter.

[agersant]