The Shining Source

I’ve been moving out of Flash and into Javascript/Ajax. I’ve been meaning to get started on a multiplayer Javascript based battle engine, so i put together this demo to see how such an engine would perform.

http://www.bloo.us/javascript/tileengine/

No complaints so far.

After a couple month interuption (completely due to the arrival of the Wii) work on Spark is back on track. I’m still working on SDL stuff. I can move my characters around the screen with input form the keyboard, but only without a background image. Next week I’ll be working on animating characters within an environment and after that I’ll be working on interaction between characeters and the enviroment.

I’ve fixed a few minor bugs with the site today, and broken a few old things in the process:

• Downloads — I’m working on setting up a proper download system, but until then all of the old downloads are defunct. The files are stored in “old-downloads” for the time being, but once the downloads section is working again I’ll be moving things around.
• Projects — Old project files are now stored in, surprisingly, “old-projects“. Now that we’re using WordPress, you’re able to add pages to your project via your control centre. I’ll be updating the site tutorial to show you how to do this.
• Offline Blogging Clients — I fixed a small bug in one of the plugins, so now you can use offline blogging clients to write news posts and worklog entries. (In case you’re wondering, I’m using “Windows Live Writer” to create this entry :P)

I’ll be making more changes over the next few days, so be prepared for a few minor hiccups. I’m also in the process of fixing up the old news articles, but it’s extremely boring and tedious so it will take a while.

Thanks for all the feedback so far, and here’s to an excellent 2007!