next »

[hryx]

Since the editor is a tangent from the actual game, I will give it its own progress bar:
●●●●◐○○○○○

This week's progress:

• Save and load level files
• Cut/copy/paste selection
• Highlight current layer
• Level file format improvements to better support user levels
• Many bugsquishes & internal improvements
• Started backing up in private git repo in case my desktop combusts

XtraMegathanks to Dom2D for putting this in his Visual Showcase #14 (insert 14 exclamation marks)

[hryx]

This (2x) week's editor progress:
●●●●●●○○○○

Stuff accomplished:

• Completely converted to spritebatch-based image drawing
• Handy utilities for logging and performance measuring
• Some new GUI widgets, some improved
• Collect and report warnings to user upon level load/save
• Made performance/FPS not sink like lead poop when >1000 objects are on the map (see first point)
• Lots of other things

Next goals:

• Single-room preview in sidebar
• Basic undo stack
• Wrap it up and get back to the game before June

Topics I learned about this week:

• Sending texture geometry info (quads) to GPU instead of whole image
• What a spritebatch is and how to use it
• Closures, upvalues, and tail calls in Lua

Woof! Failed to post an update last week. 40 hr/week job + active band + 15-30 hrs/week game dev... my ability to skip sleep every other night is slipping. Stuff like this has started happening...



Not to mention: candies hangover. I know you all have it too.