{"id":18,"date":"2010-12-04T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsikora.com\/news\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-12-04T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T07:56:24","slug":"the-octopus-has-left-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexsikora.com\/news\/2010\/12\/04\/the-octopus-has-left-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Octopus has left school"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the school portion of my game is now complete! Four weeks of pretty steady work does not, unfortunately, yield a complete game to me, but I think I have a pretty good start and a lot of code that I can work from. Luckily early weeks I spent on making reusable classes like my Image class (which wraps the Texture2D class) for drawing images easily and efficiently, an Animation class to hold any sprite animations I have, and others. The past two weeks, Thanksgiving break included, have been spent working on the Entities of the game (player, enemies, objects), and collision detection. My collision is still a bit ugly, but I can work on that more. I do however have Keys the player can pick up, which can open chests or doors. (An idea I came up with while designing the levels, is not to let the player have enough keys to open all doors\/chests, so trial and error is required to find the best routes). Portals transfer the user to another level. All level objects\/enemies are defined in the map file, and there’s even a simple menu. Overall, I’m excited to have some time over winter break to work on the game with the base I have right now. And of course, more screenshots!<\/p>\n\n\t\t