April 2008

So i set up my own hosting and copied wordpress onto it, i’m in the process of setting up pages for my projects as well as generally just working on them

I’ll be updating here instead of the old wordpress blog from now on, so please check back for more inane gibberish

Its been a while, i’m sorry but i’ve just not done any code at home in ages

I sat at the computer today much as i have on numerous occasions with the want to crack on with AstroLiger but the will to work on certain parts of the code lacking, so i chose to look at implementing a tilemap engine -something thats needed for this and probably any other game i’m likley to make hereafter, and i’m glad i did. A few words of wisdom from my friend Haowan (Alex of Deadrock fame) pointed me in the right direction and now i’ve (almost) got a working tilemap engine

Now i just need to hook it into the renderer, add mouse controls and make an editor, then i can put together some mock levels

Progress is slow, i’d forgotten how much i dislike webdesign nowadays, so i havent done the webpages yet, even though i’d decided thats what i was going to do this weekend.

I have been doing a little code though, not much, its been a pretty boring weekend, low motivation.  I’ve been working on the game engine, i’m keeping it generic as much as possible so i can use it as a starting point for future projects, today i added framerate control, and thats all working very nicely now.

Over the next week, i need to try to get a tileset renderer up and running, so i can build levels, not that i have a game to play them in, but its what i want to do next

So i bought webhosting yesterday, and hooked myself up with AstroLiger.com