I’m finding myself growing more and more surprised at just how much code needs to be written for this mystery game, even as I continue to pare it back to make it achievable in the time limit, and just how little of the code actually puts anything visible up on screen. Here’s the current state…
Big weather here, the last twenty-four hours. Downed trees, cancelled public transport, and total lack of power. Which pretty much removed a day of development time on the Game in a Week. The power’s back now, though, and I’m back onto it! With any luck, I’ll have some interesting screenshots soon!
And now for the bit that I didn’t have time to type out last night. :) Twisty Little Passages is a neat history of interactive fiction; the genre that has grown out of text adventures. I bought my hardback copy from a bookshop stall at GDC in 2005, and have to confess that I still…
Going to be a very quick post, today. Nobody’s going to believe this quote, but it’s true. The book is “Twisty Little Passages,” by Nick Montfort (hardback), the randomly selected page is 170, and the first complete sentence on the page is: “In the first room of Mystery House, seven people are initially seen.” The…
Now in the svn repository: This initial “Draw-In” shader, which over time will cause a vector object to be “drawn in”. In this case, it has been applied to the game names in the main menu; this screenshot was taken as the names are in the middle of “drawing in”, which roughly happens from left…