EPTPart One - It begins
Part Two - Technical Foundation
Part Three - Game Design
Part Four - Input and Physics
Part Five - More Physics Things
Part Six - Even More Physics
Part Seven - User Interface
Part Eight - UI and the Editor
Part Nine - Editor Progress
Part Ten - Progress, and videos
Part Eleven - Fixing the Physics
Part Two - Technical Foundation
Part Three - Game Design
Part Four - Input and Physics
Part Five - More Physics Things
Part Six - Even More Physics
Part Seven - User Interface
Part Eight - UI and the Editor
Part Nine - Editor Progress
Part Ten - Progress, and videos
Part Eleven - Fixing the Physics
This Week
Hello again TeamLiquid! Welcome back to my blog about the development of The Adventures of Sam the Pirate, the 2D platformer I'm creating as the final game project for my Bachelor of Software Engineering degree. Last week I talked about how I fixed the physics, including a new game play video, and talked about performance a bit more. This week I'll be talking about adding context menus to the editor, and what's in store for the future.
Not Much
Don't really feel like I got much done this week, which is a bit unfortunate, but I got at least one important thing done, so that's nice. Demonstrated both the game and the editor to a couple of tutors on Monday, went pretty well. Got some good feedback, some of it is on my list of things to be implemented, some I hadn't thought of but will look at implementing if I have time.
Had a meeting with a couple of artists that are interested this week as well, so with any luck I'll start getting more art to show off in the next few weeks. I'll have to see how things go.
Context Menus
This week I got the context menu in the editor, for tool selection, working. Well working sort of, it appears on a right click, and disappears when you left click somewhere else. So that's a start. Pretty easy to do, just draw a sprite with its top left corner at the position of the mouse cursor. The height of the context menu will be figured out based on the number of buttons, or other UI objects, the menu has.
What's next?
Over the next four weeks, I'll be modifying the editor so I can at least add enemies and set the player start. With any luck, I'll also be able to replace some of my temporary art with actual art assets as well. I'll be creating more levels, linking them together, and looking to do a proper play test with others in about four weeks. Hopefully I can get more done next week!
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