Category Archives: State of the Game

Updates with this edition: Lasers now destroy ships as they should, and if they hit multiple ships, they only destroy the closer one, not whichever was spawned first.  Of course, I haven’t plugged in any damage values yet, so everything … Continue reading →

You may have noticed previous versions did a weird ugly thing when you overlapped something transparent with something semi-transparent.  I was using a slightly incorrect alpha blend function (there are about 15 to choose from), I have fixed that.  I’ve … Continue reading →

To do explosions, I need to have a way of having a list of things to do in the future.  I knew I was going to have to do this eventually, but it seems tricky to do in a really … Continue reading →

Well, here it is, the game, complete with textures.  I’ve even whipped up a set for mouse cursor, ship, and default enemy. A few things to note: The textures themselves are in targa (.tga) format.  I chose that format because … Continue reading →

A fairly unimpressive addition today too, but I did one of the three things I said I’d do today.  I made projectiles into arrows that point in the right direction.  I built in the angle data when I was building … Continue reading →

Another day of progress for the game- I now have collision detection, and I fixed the stupid problem with the projectile updating routine not deleting the last projectile. Controls are the same as version 2, only now blue dots will … Continue reading →

Well, the game is improving.  Closing in on “Atari” level gameplay. Major accomplishments of the day: Creating a solid coordinate system, then translating that into pixel coordinates, so things won’t be different on different resolutions. This includes a border that … Continue reading →

I’ve unfortunately had to burn the previous effort to the ground.  Ends up SDLs native sort of graphics mode is simply not compatible with openGL, it’s more there to provide a weird sort of backup in case openGL can’t run. … Continue reading →