Beta 5 – had been for download. The bin file was 32632 bytes long, missing still: final music some soundeffect options menu some texts I am not sure what I will do – optimizing is well and nice – but…
31st of March – Game Over
Today was nerve-wrecking. I only wanted to do some small stuff – but I discovered a couple of bugs in vide – that needed fixing. Than I went glitch hunting again – and again unsuccessfully. It’s not the stars, it…
March 27th Glitch hunting
There is still a “glitch” in Release that I seem not to be able to track down. In the video you can see it at 1:22 minutes or score of 1028 in the game – the bomber “glitches” for one…
25th of March – The real thing!
Today – coming back from my holiday trip – a short holiday note… Been playing Release on my iPhone to get to know it even closer: In case you wonder why I post this – I set a fabulous HighScore…
19th of March – beta 2
I will be going on a holiday for a week – so nothing new will come. Here is the current binary as a beta 2: – – withdrawn – – not the up to date version anymore! Changes from last…
15th of March – 50Hz – adapting…
High Score Last night I implemented most of the planned high score system. I leaned heavily on my experience with Karl Quappe. Persistent high scores will be possible with: a) a DS2431a one wire eEprom b) VecFever There will be…
12th of March – Number crunching…
Just some numbers that are currently used: At maximum at the moment I configured to have 35 “objects” (object is everything that “moves” – shield, base and score are no objects) Displaying all objects including sound, base and score takes…
10th of March beta
Last night I finished a version (which I would liked to offer as a public beta) – to get perhaps a little feedback. Implemented: all different enemy types collision detection basic framework for all enemy objects scoring basic optimizations game…
7th of March – Optimizations
After yesterdays work – to correct the collision detection – today I wanted to do something different and started a first “improvement” round. The results as an Intro: …
6th of March Commutative law…
It seems I had forgotten about the commutative law – or more precise – the absence. See: (x-a)*y != x*(y-a) That bastard made my thoughts about collision detection (or rather testing against an illformed circle aka polynom) rather – how…