I’ve been away from HexEngine for a month+ playing with XNA and I was having trouble jumping back into HexEngine’s development with the same ardor and zeal that I had before. Fortunately, I’m now “back in the game” and soooo proud of what I was able to accomplished with HexEngine!
Changes :
- With some lua magic, I now have a “tech demo loader”. Meaning that I can chose which tech demo I want to run when I run HexEngine.
- A new tech demo is born! I was able to create a Tetris clone .. without modifying HexEngine ^_^
Most of the time it’s the small changes that makes all the difference and bring back your mojo. This is just what happened with this Tetris clone. I was having trouble getting back into HexEngine’s development. One day I was playing Tetris DS and it got me thinking. How easy is it to develop a Tetris Clone. “Well I need to do this and that and handle this situation… hey that sound pretty easy! I could do that!”
That got my mojo back and here I am toying with the AI of a Tetris clone I created only using the lua scripting part of my Engine. No changes were required. Cool eh?
Challenge 500 200:
After looking at the time I had been able to put into game programming, it was easy to see that I was never going to make it to 500h in a year. So I decided to scale the challenge down to a much more realistic number. Before lowering the number, I was 95h behind schedule. Now I’m about 1h ahead of schedule.
For this progress report : 11h
YTD : 67h00 / 500h 200h
Todo :
- Nameless-Tetris-Clone: AI
- J.I.M. : Do not allow an object to be push into another object.
- Fix gif transparency
- Pixel perfect collision detection
- 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.
Good to hear your mojo is back ! :P
Keep up the good work, this look damn promising!