{"id":131,"date":"2010-03-25T21:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T04:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendofeuterra.com\/devblog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-03-26T00:25:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:25:34","slug":"a-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowdawngenesis.com\/devblog\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"A Long Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have been having trouble sleeping the last few days, I wish I knew why.\u00a0 So today I was awake a lot longer than normal and had some time to waste working.\u00a0 I added some of the code that highlights and recognizes user input for the menu system, but I still have to break out each submenu, and since each of them is a new branch of the game on their own, it’s going to be a “fun” task.\u00a0 For some unfathomable reason, I didn’t dive into it just yet, and spent a lot of time on map artwork.<\/p>\n

Now here’s the thing,\u00a0I got myself pretty\u00a0discouraged by seeing a supposedly similar engine on youtube that does exactly what I wanted a game to do in 2d since… well since 1995.\u00a0 We’re talking like real functional weather that accumulates precipitaion and real lighting effects for day and night… it’s just scary.\u00a0 I am trying to figure out how to program something similar but as it stands I’m already afraid my engine as-is is at its limit, I’ve been noticing frame rate drops while I’m adding more and more detail.\u00a0 So, I have to figure out what is going on and how to speed things up.\u00a0 I just want this game to look as good as it plays, but art takes so much time.\u00a0 And I have a feeling there’s some fancy trick using alpha channel overlays to emulate light in 2d similar to the layer blending\u00a0in Photoshop.\u00a0 I’ll get over it I hope, I’m just still having problems nailing a look for the game and I need some sort of “in” to make the game appealing to others.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the additions at least to the map objects, the more I add the more I can rethink how to code them to make things more versatile AND efficient.\u00a0 I really didn’t want to have to make rocks and other “debris” part of the tileset, I probably just need to figure out another algorithm for checking which map objects to draw to speed things up.<\/p>\n

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