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It is said* that the three fundamental attributes of a programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris. So this is me being lazy.

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Soooo, I haven't said much about the vector engine the last few days because I had to go into the guts of the thing and rethink how I was modeling the map.

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Worked some more on map generation last night and this afternoon.

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So I got random map generation working in my vector engine! Which was really rather thrilling.

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So I worked a bit more on the Star Castle/vector game engine thingie today, and I'm really feeling on the one hand-on the other hand about it.

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Coming to you live and direct from oh I can't keep this up.

I wanted to call out one nice thing about that game, Dino Run, that I linked to. The only thing that can actually kill you in the game is the pyroclastic cloud: if it catches up with you and covers the screen, it's Game Over. There's plenty of other stuff in the environment, like other ( Read more... )

I worked on my little Mac game engine some more over the weekend. One will recall that my original goal was to recreate Star Castle, and I've pretty much done so, so I was trying to figure out how to move forward with this thing. Since that point I've had an interesting idea for where I want to go with it, but that requires a somewhat more ( Read more... )

Today I was theoretically going to go up to Cambridge as part of my search for a permanent place to live here in Boston. In practice when I got there I just hung around Harvard Square, visited the two famous comic book stores within five hundred feet of each other (got me a copy of Watchmen finally), had a rather tasty Yankee pot roast at a nice ( Read more... )

And the program is, as expected, exactly the same.

( The devil, you say! )