SGreth's blog

The last week has seen a bunch of improvements -

• Fixed a crash in the Torque Game Builder source code with object duplication
  
• Started playing with different ship acceleration and top speeds
  
• Shield Regeneration
• Weapon "charge" (i.e. you can't just shoot infinite bullets forever)
• X-Wing like energy management system (currently in development)

Calling all alpha testers!

Anyone who reads this knows that GalX is still in its *infancy*. Last night I got doodi & dsmooth to hop in a game with me and duke it out. Things appeared to go well until the server crashed! I'd rather work out these bugs as I move along in development than have to burn a couple of months in debugging at the end of the development cycle. Plus this will help me out by getting some real user feedback.

Weekly tests -

No screenies today...all of my work isn't really screen shot worthy.

• If you shut the server down all of the clients are notified - They kick out of the game, back to the main menu, and show a "server has disconnected" dialog box.
• Clients now send a "I'm disconnecting" message before they do so. The server then re-broadcasts this out to all the clients. This results in an instantaneous client disconnect from all of the peer's perspectives.

That's right ladies & gents....I finally got GalX running on two systems.

This one was a pain in the ass to get working. I had to make some custom modifications to the core Torque Game Builder source code. I guess I'm stuck with the version that I'm on now! Here are some screenies of our our player's path to destruction....

Our lemming today is....


Silly Taxi...stop shooting bouncing your shots at yourself off the wall!


Um...I warned you!

I don't have *any* design docs, so I'm using this blog as a running train of thought for the game design :)
Hopefully I can get some feedback (good and bad!) and suggestions along the way.

So, I've blogged on blogger.com up until this point but I think I'm going to move over here to 2o2p for some incentive. Yes, incentive. You see, my alter-ego is an aspiring game developer. I've tried & failed in the past but this time around I think I've got a fighting chance. I'm going at it alone for now, which is both a blessing and my bane. I tend to loose focus easily and without a team to keep you going projects just seem to fade away, never to reach completion.