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Short update

simon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:51:19 +0000

Its been a bit of a slog to make much progress. Tons of little ‘try this.. er.. hmm well how about that.. ooh that broke it… humm well then how about ….’ BUT the upside. The player now triggers doors when he/she walks across em. (yes the collision polygons need some tweaking but basically it works). This [...]

03/03/2009

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Well, some development progress. The in-game map now reflects a proper mow branching randomly generated maze based on Prim’s Algorithm, the trickiest bit was adapting it to do without proper arrays Toquescript is a bit funny about that. After that, I created a basic start for a tileset etc etc and got it rendering properly [...]

Further Mapmaking Tools and Integration

simon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 +0000

Got some good progress done. The online Map editor is coming along nicely with some new additions such as, saving to a database, generating exportable content files for integration into Torque. Still I need to do a couple things to it, mainly bulletproofing the submitted maps to make sure I don’t forget to add doors, [...]

A good weekend’s worth of progress.

simon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:33:27 +0000

Made a pretty hefty chunk of progress over the weekend and last two nights. Some behind the scenes work with putting everything in the level controlled by a manager object that keeps track of what’s going on and what to spawn next. Off the top of my head: WSAD controls work. Money powerup (yellow dots) Magic powerup (blue Sigils) monsters drop [...]