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\"screen_shot_1208646754.png\"\nLOG\n====\nAEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 17:13:53 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 17:53:39 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t have internet at home, but going in the competition anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

I saw the theme at about +1 hours after the competition started (about 4-5 hours ago) in an email when I was at a cafe checking my email on the free wireless.\u00a0 I have been coming up with a basic idea since then, but not giving it all that much thought.\u00a0 I was thinking about drawing lines on paper, and scanning them in\u2026 then making minimal beep noises\u2026<\/p>\n

But then I wrote the name of my directory for the game\u2026 mini_mal\u2026 and aha!\u00a0 Mini Mal was born.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t even to the ludumdare website since the comp started, but I imagine someone else has come up with the idea for ignoring the theme \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So the idea so far is this\u2026 Mini Mal the stick figure, with minimal beep noises.<\/p>\n

MOST OF THE COMPETITON I WON\u2019T HAVE INTERNET.\u00a0 Bugger.<\/p>\n

I accidentally had skellington game framework on my computer, along with pygame, and python.\u00a0 So I\u2019m just going to do a pygame game\u2026 with basic stuff.\u00a0 Luckily I also downloaded the pygame documentation and examples\u2026 also lucky the python objects have documentation built in, also lucky I have been maintaining pygame for over 3 years now.<\/p>\n

\u2026 now my todo\u2026<\/p>\n

DONE \u2013 window up, and basic event loop.\n\u2013 basic animation program\u2026\n\u2013 draw line, click point, click second point.\n\u2013 select point.\n\u2013 draw end points of lines with rectangles.\u00a0 Use collision functions to see which points are selected.<\/p>\n

\u2013 lines are in each frame of the animation.\n\u2013 to not show lines in one frame, you can mark them as invisible (somehow do invisible lines differently).\n\u2013 key frames.\n\u2013 can add\/delete key frames.\n\u2013 interpolation happens between key frames.\n\u2013 frames per second.\u00a0 Set at 30fps.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 18:30:03 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

I made a line class, which subclasses the Rect class.<\/p>\n

It can draw itself, with it\u2019s own color\u2026\u00a0 oooh.\u00a0 A white picture with a black line on it.<\/p>\n

\u2026 now to make a screenshot function I think\u2026 maybe when I have something a bit better.<\/p>\n

\u2013 draw line with end points.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 19:20:13 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

It can now draw a line, and select the end points \u2013 and move the line \":)\"<\/p>\n

Now to go and get some junk food.<\/p>\n

\u2013 make a Lines class, that has a def handle_events(self, events): method.\n\u2013 make a Lines.new_line method.\u00a0 So you then click to make the two points.\n\u2013 make a Lines.delete_line method, which deletes any line selected.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 20:38:37 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

Went and got some junk food.\u00a0 A few lollies, and chips.<\/p>\n

Then I had dinner, and then came back to work on a Lines class.\u00a0 Almost there with being able to draw multiple lines.\u00a0 Whilst coding, I\u2019ve been thinking of how I can structure the animation editor.\u00a0 Like how I can make collections of lines play at different positions.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to translate the positions of the lines somehow\u2026 perhaps I\u2019ll give each set of Lines a transform \":)\"\u00a0 Then allow selecting groups of lines, so I can animate multiple groups on the same screen.<\/p>\n

Then I\u2019ll need a way to load and save Lines\u2026 probably with pickle.<\/p>\n

Now to finish off my new_line, and delete_line methods.<\/p>\n

\u2026 oh, and I need to figure out the actual game part\u2026 hrmm.\u00a0 that can come later, once I\u2019ve figured out something cool.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 21:30:11 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

the lines can be drawn pretty easily now.<\/p>\n

Accidentally I came across a way to have the lines join up at the vertices.<\/p>\n

Now I have a mode where I can select multiple verts to move at once\u2026 which allows a primative form of welding of vertices.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 21:46:28 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

been playing a bit with drawing more\u2026 it\u2019s kind of fun.\u00a0 I\u2019ve made it slightly easier for me to do things, and also experimented with line thickness\u2026 That could also be a fun thing to animate.<\/p>\n

So the lines could grow thick from frame to frame.<\/p>\n

\u2026 but how to save them all.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/19 22:34:24 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

I think the pygame.Rect subclasses only pickle the pygame.Rect attributes.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I can replace it later with a vec4d subclass\u2026 or something.<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026 this is what I want to do I think:<\/p>\n

Frames\nFrame\nLines\nLine<\/p>\n

So then I think I can just pickle the whole lot, and reload it.<\/p>\n

2008\/04\/20 09:09:17 AEST GMT +10<\/p>\n

I put a basic screenshot function in there.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Create Frames class, get basic animation working.\n\u2013 Make a box select.\u00a0 So you can easily move many lines at once.<\/p>\n

Tags: illume<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 19th, 2008 4:16 pm","title":"Mini Mal"}