done basic collisions, map loading, ship loading, hud...

Okay, that's a damned lie, but I haven't written any actual code yet so we'll stick with it.

After learning of the theme selection I abandoned my original plan and decided to come up with something truly Twisted, but after realizing that "Danny Dunn's LSD Adventure" would require art resources I didn't have, I settled for continuing with the Breakout clone. Once I get the basic gameplay up and running I plan to add in a "screwball" effect that will hopefully Improve the gameplay rather than create an unplayable mess.

With the theme decided, it was time for class diagrams! Which I am failing to reproduce here in HTML, but most everything will inherit from the Sprite and/or Rect classes, except the main Game class which should come from scratch.

Goal for tomorrow: Screenshots of a full level built using coded classes rather than the GIMP. Functionality optional but here's hoping.

Early this afternoon, I added the ability to twist the tubes. Then, I added crates (with lots of guidance on what a crate should look like from the IRC folks).

And now, if you drop enough balls of the right kind into each crate, it goes away. If you get rid of all crates, you win!

First day in madness. A really weird day, slept eaten and programed as if there where no sign of night and day.

school to morrow. :(.

I have accomplished some thing at least. I can draw my polygons and create new. My collision detection is figured out but some bad programing gives recursion overflow. :(.

My game is as simple as hard. The goals are not clear at this point. But given a grooving set of convex polygons are you suppose to fill the area of a imaginary sphere, its really a warped plane swept around the sphere, by twisting and turning them around.

The area of all polygons are summed and given in energy which will be used to create new polygons and or killing badies whom are trying to destroy your polygons.

The difficulty level of the game gonna be decided by the are of the polygons, d the area of the sphere and badeis growth.

After a morning of wandering around my room thinking of ideas I finally settled on something.

The plan is to have a game of seveal levels. Each level consists of a vector field, some power-ups, walls, and the finishing flag, with other obsticals that I think up along the way. The player can control the disk by rotating the vector feild. Some parts can be rotated, while What I currently have is a disk that flies around, with frictional collisions on walls and possiblilty for rotation. I also have a (basic) system in which I can create levels consisting of gravity wells, spinners, walls, and fixed feilds. Tomorrow I plan to create a first test level with a finsihing post and a few walls to see how it goes.

Well, I've spent the day trying to figure out a better idea, and nothing hit my head yet. But I just realized that it's better to have a game than no game, because with a game I can at least vote on other games. :)

So I'm sticking with my original twisted tree idea, even though it might not be what I really wanted. So I'm going to spend the rest of the day planning, and hope the time I wasted today won't affect my progress much. Maybe during planning I'll find new ideas.

A member of our team has sustained two injuries today in the course of our efforts. Fortunately they were minor and she seems confident that she can continue work tomorrow. I will be sure to file a full injury report and an updated risk assessment with our safety advisor before then.

Here's one day gone and I don't even know anything about this game "we" are making yet.

He told me to leave it all to him after self-appointing himself project dictator. He's gonna get back to me when he needs me to do some work, I guess.

For now I'm writing the basics of a user interface to power whatever we end up making. It's looking pretty damn good after 8 hours although I feel like I've done this a hundred times before. Oh wait, I have.

The first day resulted in two resounding successes.

Was away from a computer all saturday night, so I only had time to toss ideas around in my head. I think i've settled on the idea of a game similar to marbles, except you toss your marbles around by twisting up an "elastic band" attached to them.