Arity Update

Things have been slow lately. I updated the main website.

I also did some work on Arity. The engine is mostly done. I got someone to play it for a few minutes in front of me, and from that decided that I had to do something about that disorienting screen transition, soI hacked in fast smooth scrolling, and it looks really good. I also took the opportunity to make some improvements to the collision detection. It would be better if I didn't treat the player like a point instead of a 1x1px box, but it works well enough, and maybe suggested that the character is just a bright glowing point, which fits well. I still need to work on the actual world, which is more or less where I stopped last Summer. I'm heading back to school in a few days, So I'll probably stop development entirely for a little while while I aclimate. We'll see if I pick it up again. It's so close. I'm really getting a sense for what the second 90% of development is.

Status Report

• PurEdit can create any aspect of a boss now.
• Anything other than creation has to be handled with a hex editor.
• All but two bosses are complete; one still need to have its guns shuffled around some.
  
• I need to add an eyedropper for guns to the editor.
  
• The engine is more or less complete.
• Roughly 25% of the rooms are complete and more are in progress.
• I'm not really sure what to do after the last boss.
• Credits maybe? New Game+?
• It's already pretty ridiculous with full powerups. New Game+ might actually be harder.
• Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
• Difficulty and Balance is probably way off. I'll have to test for that when the game is done. Maybe even before then.
• My code is a cancerous mess and I don't think I do any sort of memory management. The last thing I want to do it go back and fix it up, though. The game works; it doesn't have to be hyperefficient.
  
• I guess I'm more or less in the second 90% of development now.

Arity 1 Update

Done:

• Continue working on bosses (just aout done).
• Change the name to Arity 1.
  
• Save boss death and make the environment respond (done)
• Find the world map I made before I stopped.
• Make global (I know) event object to pass around events.
• Explosions.
• Improvements.
• And the like.
  

Todo:

• Add more Boss functionality to PurEdit (add/remove cathode/anode).
  
• Make rooms.
• Polish
• Polish
• Polish
  

Sound

FMOD Ex/VC++ has crushed my soul for the last time. I just downloaded IrrKlang. I'm done with FMOD and its damn VC++ addiction.