Development continues, part 2

richard on 2008/10/30 02:18 of Team XKCD

I'm still managing to get some time coding up improvements to the game. Since my last post I've:

• Spent a lot of time working on the user interface code, including:
  • Adding new layouts
  • Adding styling controls, including "skinning"
  • Added drag-n-drop support
  • Added some tests
  • Refactored to make the API more convenient and less clashing with Cocos
  • UI elements may be animated using Cocos actions (color, position, etc.)
• Re-implemented all game user interfaces to use the new code.
• Better feedback during battle displaying amount of damage dealt/received.
• Better NPC turn handling so their animations play completely, giving the player better feedback.
• Scaling of interface fonts to fit smaller/larger screens.
• Fixed the visual offset sometimes seen when rendering attack animations.
• Optimised NPC brain code.
• Fixed a bunch of other bugs.

Code is now at r259. I'll probably release a new version of the game once I've sorted out a bug in the Line Of Sight code.

The user interface code is all currently in a single module and implements a Cocos Layer. It's entirely independent of the rest of my game code, and I'm hoping it becomes respectable enough to include in Cocos itself.

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HanClinto on 2008/10/30 15:01:

Great update -- thanks for keeping us posted!

I'm still working on RegEx Express as well -- I'll post an update on that soon.

--clint

P.S. BTW, Richard -- did any of my e-mails to you ever go through?