Ok, so it looks that for last six months I wasn't doing anything with Dragontorc but it is not true. First thing, I decided to move from C# to Vala which may be or not good thing. I actually could just switch straight to C or C++ but I really liked the idea behind Vala and... well, I will just stick to it for a while.
So transferring to Vala took about week and of course it wasn't full week of work as it is just a hobby.
Also I reorganised few things under the hood so it is even more modular. Example: location and velocity don't sit in Object's class (Wizard, Item) but in one of the modules (presence module). Which some of the people may find odd but it really helps keeping things small and simple. And also makes it much easier to extend functionality or modify it - even during the game - one of the examples is physics module being switched for items - they behave differently when put on the ground or thrown and differently when servant is holding them. But that's all just technical details and maybe I will have dedicated post for them in the future.
What has happened with other almost 6 months? Few weeks I spent on actually working on Dragontorc pushing it through MS2 which is quite big (items, servant, static objects, interactions). As soon as I will finish that, I'll post an update.
So, what about 5 months? One or two, I was just doing some other stuff. For two other months I was refitting upper rooms in our flat/tower (yes, it is a tower on top of a building) and had pretty big troubles with people repairing balcony (and they probably !@#$ed it up). But other time I was working on Animation System which I plan to continue to work on, although Dragontorc is much more fun and after recent talk to my wife I decided to first finish Dragontorc and then move to next project.
How did talking to my wife influenced my decision? Well... I was working on icons to accounting software and she found it fun. To invent new icons and to actually draw them. That's when I thought that if she find it fun, maybe she could help me with Dragontorc - so probably it will look more like original game, which is... a good thing I guess.
Stay tuned and wait for next MS in which some items will be picked up and servant will be flying all over the place.
So transferring to Vala took about week and of course it wasn't full week of work as it is just a hobby.
Also I reorganised few things under the hood so it is even more modular. Example: location and velocity don't sit in Object's class (Wizard, Item) but in one of the modules (presence module). Which some of the people may find odd but it really helps keeping things small and simple. And also makes it much easier to extend functionality or modify it - even during the game - one of the examples is physics module being switched for items - they behave differently when put on the ground or thrown and differently when servant is holding them. But that's all just technical details and maybe I will have dedicated post for them in the future.
What has happened with other almost 6 months? Few weeks I spent on actually working on Dragontorc pushing it through MS2 which is quite big (items, servant, static objects, interactions). As soon as I will finish that, I'll post an update.
So, what about 5 months? One or two, I was just doing some other stuff. For two other months I was refitting upper rooms in our flat/tower (yes, it is a tower on top of a building) and had pretty big troubles with people repairing balcony (and they probably !@#$ed it up). But other time I was working on Animation System which I plan to continue to work on, although Dragontorc is much more fun and after recent talk to my wife I decided to first finish Dragontorc and then move to next project.
How did talking to my wife influenced my decision? Well... I was working on icons to accounting software and she found it fun. To invent new icons and to actually draw them. That's when I thought that if she find it fun, maybe she could help me with Dragontorc - so probably it will look more like original game, which is... a good thing I guess.
Stay tuned and wait for next MS in which some items will be picked up and servant will be flying all over the place.
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