So the theme was one I thought I liked earlier in the week, but decided for the final vote that I was wrong.\u00a0 Of course, it was selected so we’ll have to make due.<\/p>\n
I’m still not sure I can get something totally fun done before the self-imposed deadline of tomorrow night.\u00a0 If I don’t get it done by then, it probably won’t get done since I have a party to go to and then the second game of the Sharks\/Ducks playoff series.<\/p>\n
I stared at the computer screen, helped with my kid’s bath and watched some TV before I settled on an idea for the Advancing Wall of Doom theme.\u00a0 The idea is simple:\u00a0 The wall goes from left to right, and words go right to left.\u00a0 The idea is that you have to type the phrase before the untyped characters run into the wall.\u00a0 Essentially a tool to help practice touch typing.\u00a0 If you can do that, then you get a new phrase, and so on.\u00a0 If you make a mistake, the wall creeps faster.\u00a0 Successfully completing the entire set of phrases in that round may reset the wall, or just give you a short reprieve, I haven’t decided.<\/p>\n
So far I have the text scrolling and typing stuff done.\u00a0\u00a0 It keeps track of what character you are on and knows when you’ve typed the wrong one.\u00a0 The wall creeps to the right, but nothing happens on collision yet.\u00a0 I created some sound effects using sfxr by DrPetter.\u00a0 It’s quick, easy, and awesome.\u00a0 I may mess around with musagi later tomorrow for backround music, we’ll see.<\/p>\n
There isn’t much to show off, so I didn’t bother with screen shot tonight.<\/p>\n
I think it’s time for sleep.\u00a0 See you in the morning.<\/p>\n \n
Tags: advancing wall of doom<\/a>, ld48_14<\/a>, typing<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 18th, 2009 1:24 am","title":"First post of the Advancing Wall of Night"}