{"author_name":"XMunkki","cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"hdon","time":"April 25, 2010 10:54 am","epoch":1272210840,"text":"What programming language and multimedia framework do you use?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 25, 2010 12:45 pm","epoch":1272217500,"text":"I used F# as the language. The game is a normal .NET application (built using 3.5 .NET framework). So no special “multimedia framework”, just normal WinForms stuff..","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1272210540,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"70834","p_author":"XMunkki","p_authorkey":"117","p_urlkey":"106655","p_title":"Just about done..","p_cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","p_event":"LD17","p_time":"1272210540","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"117","us_name":"XMunkki","us_username":"xmunkki","event_start":"1271980800","event_key":"3","event_name":"LD17"},"text":"

\"BubblesAndScore\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Just about done.. I think I’ll skip making any sounds\/music this time (so the game should work well in office setting as well).. I added “bubbles” that flow with the stream (the little dots). They help to visualize the fluid behavior a lot. I added lives and scoring and also a startup menu screen (not shown here). The hiscore is saved to the registry. So I’m pretty much there, or really close.<\/p>\n

I think I might spent a few moments seeing if I can optimize some of the rendering code. For example, the fluid bitmap is updated every frame. With Bitmap.SetPixel for every pixel. \":)\" So things like that may be a bit of a performance overhead.. Not sure if I’ll bother but we’ll see. Then there’s the packaging and uploading to do.<\/p>","time":"April 25th, 2010 10:49 am","title":"Just about done.."}