{"author_name":"stuckie","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"July 27, 2009 12:51 am","epoch":1248673860,"text":"I’ve seen the ‘demo’ in your earlier post and I think this might actually become something really nice! =D","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1248607980,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"73220","p_author":"stuckie","p_authorkey":"267","p_urlkey":"109042","p_title":"The Half Way Mark\u2026","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD14","p_time":"1248607980","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"267","us_name":"stuckie","us_username":"stuckie","event_start":"1239926400","event_key":"90","event_name":"LD14"},"text":"

As I’m going by 48 hours since I started, I have about 20 hours left.<\/p>\n

I have hit a problem in that the Quirks’ state machine is rather unwieldy and complex… a better solution would have been doing pixel detection, but my engine doesn’t currently support that ( something I’ve noted down to fix later ) as such, it does a variety of tile checks depending on the Quirk’s orientation and direction.
\n This is unbelievably nasty… and it’s forced me to go back a bit and redesign it all on paper first so I can see all the combinations I can get. It’s still going to end up a massive mess, but I can atleast tackle each segment at a time and make it a bit more bearable to code!<\/p>\n

I’ve also realised that I’ve spent most of my time wrestling with the code and doing some ( basic ) graphics.. there’s no sound effects of any sort, and I’m thinking I’m going to have to squeeze them in in the last two or three hours before packaging it up.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, there’s now interaction! There’s now randomly coloured Quirks! And the engine can sustain about 256 Quirks ( nice retro number to coincide with the graphics! ) before slowing down! I did have it throwing about 900 on the screen, but it slows a fair bit, as each Quirk gets it’s own monolithic 500 line state machine \ud83d\ude09 ( and that state machine isn’t even finished yet! )<\/p>\n

\"Many<\/p>\n

Here’s a hundred Quirks, with an updated Graphics set, and the red box o’doom cursor \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n \n

Tags: half way<\/a>, little quirks<\/a><\/p>","time":"July 26th, 2009 6:33 am","title":"The Half Way Mark\u2026"}