Work Continues

Work continues on the Gravity Shift game.  I'm still working on the collision detection, but this weekend has been a little busy (since Thursday) setting up for Halloween and Murder Mystery Dinners.

But today (Sunday) will be a good working day to get some more work done.

I've been looking at the code and I really feel like I'm going to have to change quite a bit because we really want to deal with two types of objects.  The first part is already done: Gravity-affected objects.  This includes the player and any environmental object that we want to respond the change in gravity.  The second is objects that the player (and other gravity-affected objects) can run into but is a non-gravity-affected object.  And then easily have them coordinate with the level editor...

I've got my work cut out for me.

As for Git, I feel like I've gotten the kinks worked out.  There were some problems which a few of us had, but I think that it is all taken care of and it should be easy from here on out.  Whew.

Collision Detection

I'm moving onto working with the collision detection for the game.  From what Tyler was saying, he tried a simple implementation that didn't seem to work.  His ideas were about the same as what I was thinking of implementing, so I think I'm going to have to do some drawing-board work for a little bit here.

I haven't done a whole lot of coding as much as I have been pouring over the code.  Tyler had some issues that he didn't know how to address which I'm working on solving but we'll see.  I'll have some more time tomorrow to work on it and I hopefully can get some real work done.

Menus and Git vs. Ankh

So most of the backlog is complete.  I was in charge of the menus, and I think I've got the important stuff.  

HUD

Opening Menu

• Gameplay

    ◦ New Game
    ◦ Load Game
           ▪  Level Select

• Options

    ◦ Controller Settings
    ◦ Sound Settings

• Achievements (View)

Pause Menu – This menu would have to be set up so that players cannot abuse the pause feature. This could be done by a countdown or only allow pausing while your player is not moving (resting against a wall)

• Return to game

• Restart level

• Exit to Main

• Options – same as Opening Menu → Options

• Level Stats

This can also be found at the wiki.

Also...

I've been sold on Ankh.  I really love the ability to integrate with Visual Studio.  I think that I'm going to bring that up with the group and move to get git out of our sights.  Git seems like something powerful and good, but for this project, I'm beginning to have my doubts.  

Get Git

So Tuesday's assignment was based on file sharing between the team.  Thus begins what can be described as "Get Git."

This comes in two phases.  The first was easy.  Get ("download and install") Git.  Done and done.

The next has been a little harder.  Get ("understand") git.

So I've been messing around with it and I think I'm getting a handle on it, but I'm going to have to really work at it to understand that.  I know that this doesn't really make an interesting blog post, but oh well.