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So while it’s only 2 new tasks complete, there’s 2 more that are 80% there and others are planned out.

Here’s a recap of new stuff:

• PCs and monsters now shoot and damage each other with functioning ranged combat!
• PCs can die!
• Monsters can die!
• Monster spawner behavior is 90% there
• PC equip-able items / attacks are close to being there.
• New portraits are almost done.. then we’ll have 3 different PCs
• Project title finally announced:

• Project has it’s own Website http://www.irismel.com (granted for now it’s just an import of this swiftthought.com RSS feed.
• Irismel is listed over at http://www.indiedb.com/games/irismel-the-silverlake-chronicle
• Swiftthought etc has proper Desura / indieDb accounts made for eventual alpha release.

And Here’s a new Screenshot showing some of the things that you can see:

Three days.  That’s not a whole lot of time left.

The list of cut features is growing on a daily basis, and new incidental bonus things are beginning to crop up.

New Stuff:

• Music!  makes a world of difference
• New website area and working Facebook integration
• 4 final levels (6 more in development)
• new backend tools for tweaking text wrapping issues
• new bolt particles and images and tweaked effects
• improved dialog for failure

Not as much progress as I’d like, or on the bits that I’d like.. but that’s kinda how it works

Here’s the Screenshot and some more sordid details below.

Highlights of the week are:

• Applet integration started.. The basic functionality now works in a web page
• Mirrors  (and indeed all placeables) now ask and respond properly to queries about their facing
• Lots of new particle effects on Magical bolts (trust me they look way better in action)
• This lead to some serious stuttering issues when creating all the bolts.  This has been fixed by creating all the bolt objects at level init and just flagging them as no update / no render.

The big issues to tackle:

• Java to Javascript to Java communication.  Because I really want to be able to send data from the database / facebook requests directly into the game.
• An update glitch that causes bolts to not register hits with mirrors.  The solution to this is to just skip the ‘per pixel’ detection stuff and have the bolts just run a check against the game Board’s entity mapping table and see if the bolt is going to hit something and then find out if it needs to change it’s offset and direction or magic power type.     This is a bit of work, but the initial stuff is really just taking too many calls and calcultaions to be done if I want it to start checking for positions in between update calls.