Brainfold

Today I adapted the nice setuptools-based plugin module from Spineless to more easily support different physics toolkits in my code, and played around a bit trying to write a Box2D plugin. Frankly, I don’t like the Box2D API design at all, and I like the pyBox2D API even less, as it’s a direct port of [...]

My work with the entity system is pretty much finished for now. Everything seems to be finally working and the code is reasonably clean. I don’t want to get stuck polishing the code while it’s still missing most of the planned features. I didn’t get to gameplay / user interface stuff yet, but I hope [...]

As promised, I actually did some game development this week for a change. First I upgraded to Pyglet 1.1 (beta 1) and pymunk 0.7.1. After that, I finally implemented a better camera for the artillery game. It’s really nice now, smooth scrolling and zooming with constraints so you can’t move or zoom “beyond” the playing [...]

Like yesterday, I didn’t get what I wanted to done, but did get as much done as I wanted to. Summary of today’s accomplishments:

Physics simulation for all objects, thanks to Chipmunk (see screenshot #1 below)
Units can now shoot, but turns don’t change yet (screenshot #2)
Input mapping is done in a really nice, general [...]

Ok, I’m all ready to start development for today. Today I’m going to focus on gameplay and playing around with physics assisted by Chipmunk. But first I’m going to write a bit about my plans for the game.
There are two major gameplay features and one programming technique I want to emphasize. Let’s get the dull [...]

Ok, so I didn’t actually update during the day and didn’t get an actual playable game prototype done today, but I’m damn pleased with my progress in any case. And I don’t remember programming being this satisfying for a long, long time!
Anyway, I got randomized, heightmap-based terrain and basic units implemented. You can [...]