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• Grin

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-22 18:02:18

  Well it's been a bit of a slow start for me. After considering and rejecting some ideas, I've found one I'm happy with, and I have a page full of propaganda and an empty main loop. I also had to rest a bit. Full speed ahead now though ...

  It looks as if I'm going to have to break one of the rules, and I don't think spinning the Rule-O-Matic will solve the problem.

  

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• Grid

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-22 19:36:41

  I seem to have got the 3D coordinates and transformations right first time! Go me! ;D

  

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• Blobs

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-23 20:40:47

  Hah! Take that, grid.

  I had to take a few hours out today to go and rehearse for a theatre show I'm involved in. But the rehearsal is out of the way now, and nothing can stop me! ;D

  Oh, is it all right if some allegro.cc members star in my game?

  

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  • I don't have an issue with it. - MiquelFire

• Oh noes

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-23 23:51:36

  I think I hit a bug.

  Well, now I think it's time to start adding to the ten hours of sleep I've had so far between 11:30 Friday night and 9:30 Saturday morning. I've got my work cut out for me tomorrow:

  - On-screen display
  - Ending
  - Some level of AI
  - Laziness
  - Camera tweaks
  - Sound
  - Music
  - Menus
  - Propaganda
  - Sky

  But before I go - I don't like the colour rule. It's too easy. I hereby replace it with:

  Buzz Word

  You must coin and popularize a phrase within the game! Bonus points for a phrase which is absurd in any other situation but the game.

  AHAHAHAASHSFlblbl (I'm so going to regret this)

  

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  • That's a nice looking grid effect. - kenmasters1976

• Yes!

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-24 10:32:46

  Yep - this was supposed to happen ;)

  I do this in all my SpeedHacks. I implement some amazing graphics and then keep them hidden. I expect to be rated on that. Think of the sheer time investment!

  I think I'll do the on-screen display next.

  

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  • Bruce, how does one use DUMB with allegro 5? I compiled dumb, but how do I register the loader on al5? - titonbrujah
  • The easiest way is to make sure DUMB is available when compiling Allegro. - Matthew Leverton

• Getting there

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-25 02:54:34

  On-screen display - check.
  Ending - check.
  Some level of AI - check.
  Laziness - check.
  Camera tweaks - check.
  Sound - check.
  Music - ...
  Menus - check. (Apart from the volume option.)
  Propaganda - check.
  Sky - ...

  I'm tempted to skip the music and go for the ambient sound thing this time. So that leaves nine hours to come up with a nice sky effect while sleep-deprived without introducing crash bugs.

  I had an occasional crash bug earlier. I was dreading some kind of strange projection issue that I wouldn't be able to reproduce. It turned out to be an off-by-one error, and I would never have found it if I hadn't got into the habit of running from Eclipse in Debug mode. It feels so luxurious!

  I can't upload a new screenshot without giving the game away, so instead, here's one of the sound effects.

  

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  • I always like your games. Can't wait to see this year's entry in action. - kenmasters1976

• Uploads are closed ...

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-25 05:07:53

  ... and I took the liberty of predicting who's going to w- Oh, hi bambams!

  So there we go. The cat's out of the bag. And the rule I broke was the one in Matthew's readme.txt that says PLEASE DO NOT CALL YOUR GAME "SPEEDHACK". Am I disqualified yet?

  Sky - check.
  Music - I like it without.

  Better check if it fits in the zip - I suspect it will need a small amount of tweaking. Then maybe I'll see if I feel like adding pretties to the menus. :)

  

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  • ...how meta. :D - Rodrigo Monteiro

• Finished!

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-25 08:36:44

  Submitted through the site, and also available here:

  For Windows users:
  http://bdavis.strangesoft.net/sh2011-entheh-win.zip

  For everyone else:
  http://bdavis.strangesoft.net/sh2011-entheh.zip

  No one was around to test in Linux or with MSVC for me, and I need sleep! So I hope it's OK.

  Hope everyone enjoys it! I should be able to try everyone else's entries out next weekend :)

  

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  • The windows binary is missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll - titonbrujah
  • and libstdc++-6.dll too... Downloaded them manually, put them in folder, seems to be working now - titonbrujah
  • Thanks :) I've rebuilt the binary with -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++, so hopefully it won't need those any more. That's the last time I let MinGW sneak DLLs in (until they do it again). :) - Bruce Perry

• In-Game

  Posted by Bruce Perry at 2011-07-25 09:04:20

  Here, have a finished in-game screenshot. :)

  And an announcement thread:
  http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/607918 :)

  

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