Today was a date day, so I didn’t work on a tutorial. Instead, I spent the day with Shadow Monsters. I’m pleased to announce that our relationship is on the mend. I took her shopping, bought her lunch, went to a movie, and all of the typical date-day things. She is truly glowing. She has a run in her hose, though, and I need to buy her a new pair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As far as tutorials go, I haven’t decided. I’ve been thinking that I want to start on combat for A Summoner’s Tale. It is based on the conversation system and is much less complicated than Eyes of the Dragon. It has been a while since I’ve done one for A Summoner’s Tale. I would also like to do more work on the combat system for Eyes of the Dragon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I stated above, my project is Shadow Monsters. I spent a lot of time with her today. Mostly, I was working on using render targets to handle multiple resolutions differently. I was using scaled vectors and rectangles, and it was getting messy. Other than combat, I have the screens working successfully. I had to make some adjustments to the tile engine. They were eluding me, but with all the love I gave Shadow Monsters today, she was merciful and yielded the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All kidding aside, it was so nice to work on Shadow Monsters today, almost exclusively, for that matter. It still requires a lot of content. I will cross that bridge when I get to it. For now, there are some core gameplay elements that need attention. I need to make some updates to the combat system. I’m still considering making it a card game, like Magic: The Gathering. Anyway, I will be back tomorrow with another episode of the game programming adventures show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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