{"id":10,"date":"2010-11-13T04:19:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T04:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsikora.com\/news\/?p=10"},"modified":"2011-06-22T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:41:20","slug":"birth-of-an-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/birth-of-an-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of an Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"

School has been crazy busy lately so haven’t had much of a chance to update. However, finally decided on my final project so I figured I would update this and maybe track my progress on it. The name of the game is Mystical Spatula Relic: The Narcoleptic Octopus Scandal. You play a young man called into an alternate dimension to rescue the mystical spatula from the narcoleptic octopus. \u00c2\u00a0It’s a sidescrolling adventure game that will be out for the iPad within 4 weeks (if I do well \ud83d\ude1b ). Hopefully it should be fun to do. I’m using graphics from the lostgarden, so it’ll look kind of cartoony, but that’s what I’m looking for. I’m a bit nervous about the amount of work required, but hopefully the whole grade issue will motivate me. I guess I’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n

So, this has been sitting in my non-edited posts for a little while. I’ve made some pretty good progress. Had the first in-class review on thursday and it went ok. Progress so far has been wrangling with OpenGL. I utilized \u00c2\u00a0a version of Apple’s Texture2d class to load up UIImages into OpenGL textures, and made a wrapper Image class for it. I made my render loop and had it draw using the DisplayLink. Currently I simply have a couple tiles drawing. Looking to the future I want to have a map loaded and drawing, and a player who can move around and scroll the screen.<\/p>\n

Also, screenshot!<\/p>\n

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School has been crazy busy lately so haven’t had much of a chance to update. However, finally decided on my final project so I figured I would update this and maybe track my progress on it. The name of the game is Mystical Spatula Relic: The Narcoleptic Octopus Scandal. You play a young man called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-update","category-school","tag-final-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}