Vision Riders Entertainment Blog - Programming

Stupidity At Its Best

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:21:58 -0700

So I added a function in the code that allows the player to skip scenes by tapping the Y button on the controller. I boot up the game to test this and the intro scene for the first level begins to play. My immediant reaction is "Ah man, I've got to sit through this scene again so I can test the button that lets me skip this scene!"

Stupidity.

Yay Me!

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:28:55 -0700

Just completed (for the most part) the scripting language for AetherFall. It's complete with variables and if-then-else blocks and such, which should prove useful for writing the game's events. I've never completed any sort of scripting engine before, so this has been a real eye-opener for me. I now both understand and appreciate programming languages a lot more because of it. XD

Surprisingly, it wasn't as hard as I was dreading it would be, either. Granted, I still have some things to test/debug/clean-up, but the hardest part was simply working out how everything should flow.

Here's What I've Been Up To Lately

nospam@example.com (Dale Johnson) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:30 -0700

Sorry I haven't been getting Swordmaster Odyssey up lately. I'm hoping to get the comic back on track in a few more weeks, so don't fret too much. In the meantime, though, I've been dabbling in programming again, playing around with C# and Microsoft's XNA.

This is a game prototype for a platformer-RTS hybrid I put together over the past week. Not sure if anything will come of it, or if I'll have the time and/or gumption to continue working on it, but thus far it's been an interesting endeavor.