Well, with all the disappointing news on the SEGA front I felt it was time to get started on some serious work. Most of the entity stuff is going pretty well and today I set up most of the statistics system that I’ll be using.
The whole code is still a mess but I figure that it’ll clean itself up over time ;). Still, adding functionality is still do-able, and that’s what matters most.
I updated the progress page, so feel free to take a look at it here.
It’s been a fatally bloody while, but finally I can report _some_ amount of progress on SSC again :).
The past bunch of days I’ve largely busy with setting up an entity and sprite system, and basically the turn based movement -in its simplest form- is done. Instead of making a full game right away, my first intention is to set up a hot seat multiplayer battle engine. Of course it’s bloody easy, but I’m missing it a little in existing projects.
I might call it BABS 2, I might not. Heck, I might die tomorrow!
On a more inviting note: if there are any severely bored souls out there, feel free to contribute the project with a few tiles and sprites. You can easily use the existing SMEE 1.0 (and the PNG export option inside it) for the tiles, and a sprite template should be in that distribution as well ;).
And if you’re truly lazy: send your old crap over! I’m sure I’ll find a useful purpose for it :D.
I thought I’d start this right at the very top with Dev’s projects :)
JAVA
Early 2004
http://www.shiningsource.net/releases.php?id=2
The Shiny Sword: Cloudslayer project is yet to start. SMEE has been in the fridge lately, but quite some progress is expected this summer.
Verge 1
December 2001
http://www.shiningsource.net/releases.php?id=6
Completed! Now discontinued.
I’ll be posting another project update every day, so if you’ve ever thought “what happened to…?” then keep an eye on the main site!
Unlike what some of you might think, I’m really not procrastinating on development ;).
On the contrary even! I am currently doing a total plot rewrite. It’s quite the endeavour, and although I’ve already written over 10.000 words, I am certainly not even halfway.
I hope to resume regular progress after the end of this month. And one definate certainty is that the background site will be greatly expanded then!
I have put the plot *somewhere* online, but for the sake of spoiler protection, I’m not going to hand out the location in public. If you feel like reading it, just contact me through e-mail or pm, and I’ll tell you where to find it :).
I reorganized the site a bit and I worked out Phase 3 of the project :). The credits page has been moved from the D20 campaign section to the main site (under “About SSC”), and I’ve moved the progress section to a seperate page, as the table is getting somewhat big now ;).
Anyway, feel free to check the progress of the Shiny Sword!
