And the sky full of stars
log

Sat 8:30 (45:30 to go)
Woke up, theme is swarm. I had a swarm idea several years ago, but 
that ended up being way too complicated to implement, so I'm not going to 
do that this year. Got idea of stars, something with stars.. 
Well, maybe I'll build a toy and then see if I can turn it into a game.

9:45
Taken the dog out, SDL environment set up.

9:52
Cleaned stuff up enough to start..

10:13
Particles acting strange.. oh well, breakfast.

10:26
Couple pancakes later, back to "work"..

11:19
bigger-than-screen world, background sky blue fade, ground plane..

11:33
fixed a problem with the coordinate systems..

12:11
Okay, now I have a collect-the-stars-into-a-swarm toy done. 
Now then, what would the game be?

12:19
Let there be a city..

12:42
..and some monsters spawning from a portal..

13:21
Hm, this is turning into a game. Now stars can collide with monsters, 
monsters can collide with buildings.
Going to need tons and tons of particles..

13:47
Particles added, game looks MUCH better..

14:28
Screenies, preview and log posted, backup taken, font drawn and printer code done.

14:37
scoring added.. time to take the dog out..

15:15
back

15:25
Stages added

16:10
Stages tuned a bit

16:14
preview 2 release done, backup done

17:05
main menu done, gate now shrinks based on how many monsters are left.

17:09
I think it's rc1 time.

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Sun 8:22 (21:38 to go)
Played psychonauts, ate, slept, and stuff. Woke up, glanced at screenies by other people,
started visual studio again. I suppose I should make the monsters look a bit more
'monstery'..

9:53
Added glowing eyes and entry transition effect to the monsters, tweaked difficulty a bit
by making the city grow wider on later levels (slowed down monsters as well). Took the
dog out.

10:42
added some smaller dots as a backdrop, tuned things a bit and removed warnings;
also redid the help screen.
Time to make RC2 and then install fmod..

11:36
Sound effects, pass one. RC3 time.

12:33
Added midi music (composed with MusiNum 2.08 fractal music composer)
as well as options to disable sfx and music. RC4, probably final.
Also tweaked the difficulty a bit again - the cursor grows faster,
but the monsters are a bit faster by default as well.

17:44
Took dog out, ate, chatted on the channel, cleaned up the source code somewhat
(fixing some small things) and added couple hundred lines of comments. Calling 
it "final" now. Sources included in the zip.