Tonight, I made it so my sprites had a walking animation, decided to show all four walls of the room, and found out some things about Trinket I didn’t know before. Also, what is a roguelike, anyway? And why not use something like Unity that solves most of the problems I am having?
7DRL
7DRL: Building an Engine — In the Browser
One of the items on my 7DRL checklist for this year is to have the game run in a browser. The last time I did this, I used Pygame and could only share it with people by handing them the source and hoping they happened to have Python and Pygame installed. As part of the Rogue-like game engine development, I’m looking into ways to get the game playable in the browser, while still being able to use Pygame to develop it. Today, I’m looking at Trinket.
7DRL: Building an Engine — A Room
The annual 7DRL — 7 Day Rogue-Like — game hackathon is next month. I did this a really long time ago, but I didn’t know at that time that I could start the competition with a game engine already programmed. By the time I finished the engine, I only had a day left to build some sort of game on it. This time, I’m building the engine ahead of time.
Daily Blogroll Oct 19: Time enough to learn to swim edition
If you were given six months to live, you wouldn’t spend it leveling up a new character in some MMORPG. You’d want to do something that gave your life meaning. Six months at the end of your life isn’t more valuable than six months right now. In fact, six months right now is way better. Truth is, your friends and family don’t care that you leveled a character. They care about the time you spent with them. (Fact is, it’s almost certain nobody in the world cares about your achievements in video games, and in a couple of years, neither will you).
7DRL — World of Roguecraft: Slightly more fun than clipping your nails.
The ratings for the entries in this year’s 7DRL — 7 Day Rogue-Like — game design challenge are in, and my entry, World of Roguecraft, is in the top 95%! So grats me 😉