Lumbering Dream Interactive

Small step for humankind, big step for man: I've finished my first proper game, Pitchblackoids! By first I mean first written in C++, first on a 32bit platform, first not in BASIC, first in a decade. By proper, I just mean that it has a front-end, it has sound effects and background "music", most of the basic facilities (levels and progression, basic AI, pause, highscore save/load, loads of particles and some other effects)... Click for the download links and a quick postmortem.

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This is something I wanted to get done for real long. I'm not talking about pushing down the Jim Horning quote that made the whole site looking freaking grim, but tweaking that evopress skin towards something more personal. It's not my thing really... good thing my patience lasted till I came up with something at least halfway satisfactory. I'm much happier with the new logo (see favicon.ico) though, especially considering how briskly had I to storm my brain to come up with it.

But, now it's game programming time again.

"Good judgment is gained from experience. Experience is gained from bad judgment."
-- Jim Horning

However beautiful Yorkshire was, I was dying to get back, mostly because XRhodes. On my way back to London, the new motto has came to me. Also came some ideas for my upcoming game and its soundtrack. I'll be back when I've got stuff to show off.

After a few days' procrastination I managed to move on with the construction (and even my trig studies).

The next step is the unification of rendering and collision detection.

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As of today, lumberJack is openly and officially called XRhodes.

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