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Will definitely have a working pathfinding by the end of the weekend. Got started with creating a grid of cells for the map, and from there have to do this floodfill technique, create objects that have states, and then start linking objects to the map cells. Test that the data is flowing correctly, then work on making sure the floodfill numbers ( Read more... )

It's amazing how much flash is used on the web. Anything that seems to animate seems to be done through it, and it's comforting to know how they operate ( Read more... )

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From time to time, every time, I find myself having waited a couple minutes (which just really add up over the course of a day) of compiling to encounter a run-time error of a variable gone null. Oh stupid stupid! I should have seen that coming, why didn't I check for that ( Read more... )

After drowning myself in a whole bunch of Flash/ActionScript learning, I'm going to go ahead with the one day projects again rather than making one sizable game. So starting tomorrow, I'm going to play around with bitmap data's and filters and... boy, I still feel way over my head using the term bitmap. And raster, and vectors. It'll all slowly ( Read more... )

I finally understand the connection between onions and tears after my latest fried rice experiment using waay too much onion. Well, I pushed the boundaries. Now I tearfully know more.

I'm usually out 2 hours by now, but it must be a mixture of my latest crave for a new side programming project, my new parking spot with a good chance of getting a ticket, and cherry coke that makes my mind race of excitement and fear. It also doesn't help that I was trying to leave this noisy computer on so it could download some stuff overnight ( Read more... )

I find myself oddly waiting for Monday to come so I can do more programming at work, yet I can't find myself to work on my side programming projects right now. *sigh*