Game Development: From beginner to journeyman

Here’s a progress report of HexEngine

Changes :

• Basic Implementation of Lua, a lightweight and extensible scripting language.
• Basic Implementation of Audiere, a high-level audio API.
• Implementation of TinyXML.
  
• Implementation of devIL. Developer’s Image Library (DevIL) is a library for loading, editing and saving images.
• Started using Tiled as a map editor.
• Basic Map structure.
• Load a map created with Tiled (a .tmx). Uses TinyXML to parse the xml file, and use devIL to load the tiles.
• Load a tile, base64 encoded in the .tmx
• Load and split in tile a tileset image.

Todo :

• Finish writing a mini tutorial on Lua.
• Write a “Making of” page for the implementation of the loading of maps created with Tiled.
• Finish the rewriting of the map display.
• Add a player on the map.
• Obstructions handling.
• Rework the base64 loading of tile. I should load the image from memory instead of writing a temporary file and loading it.
• Rework the split of a tileset image. I should copy the pixel of the big image in the tile, instead of each time copying the big image and cropping it.