Early post, today, as I have roads! Or at least, I have white ribbons that work like roads. In this screenshot, what you’re looking at is a starting area in the very foreground, an inn in the middle left, a graveyard in the middle right, and a quest giver on top of the mountain in…
I’ve been feeling mildly ill for about a fortnight, now, but today was particularly bad. I’ve mostly been taking it easy, but I did take the time to get the “remove building” and “move building” functionality from MMORPG Tycoon 1.1 working in version 2.0. The trickiest part about it was that when moving a building,…
This is a little ugly, but functional. Today, I implemented polygon-accurate picking of buildings, players, and monsters. That is, the cursor now moves over and reacts to these objects rather than ignoring them. I also implemented a mechanism by which the cursor can find out not only where it’s bumped into something, but also precisely…
Every once in a while, it’s nice to take a day off to do very little. Well, I actually did a lot today, but not very much of it was development related. In terms of development, there were only a few new things I added to MMORPG Tycoon 2: Added a utility interface to the…
I’ve long held that one of the most important continuous jobs when creating a game is authoring and obeying The Contract. The Contract is a term I’ve co-opted from films; it’s an implied agreement between the movie studio and the audience. In the case of a film like Jaws, it might go something like this:…