{"author_name":"caranha","cat":"LD #22","comments":[{"author_name":"Jack","time":"December 18, 2011 7:33 am","epoch":1324211580,"text":"put the scale mode on nearest neighbour, then you won’t get the ugly lines","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"vubuntu","time":"December 18, 2011 7:34 am","epoch":1324211640,"text":"if you’ll get rid of that nasty lines, then scale. otherwise leave it unscaled, it is not so small.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1324211400,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"60932","p_author":"caranha","p_authorkey":"7847","p_urlkey":"96694","p_title":"To Scale or not To Scale?","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324211400","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"7847","us_name":"caranha","us_username":"\/author\/caranha\/","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

The game is about a maze. You can get an ability that will let you see more of the maze at once (think \u00a8light\u00a8 or \u00a8binoculars\u00a8).<\/p>\n

At first, I just rendered the cells that you could see, and kept the others dark.<\/p>\n

One of my friends thought that the play area was too small, and suggested that when your sight range is small, I should zoom in.<\/p>\n

I did a quick implementation of it. It looks clearer, but because the scaling was not perfect, there were some nasty lines in the zoomed in version…<\/p>\n

To scale or not to scale? That is the question (If I had the time, maybe I would just create bigger sprites and scale DOWN instead of scaling UP).<\/p>\n

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Difference between the \u00a8Scale\u00a8 and \u00a8Not Scale\u00a8 approach<\/p><\/div>\n

EDIT: Thanks to Jack, now I have scaling AND smooth tiles \":-)\"<\/p>","time":"December 18th, 2011 7:30 am","title":"To Scale or not To Scale?"}