senman

I figure I should update this beast of a journal, and share some recent events! 1) Tomorrow is my birthday! I'll be 19, and it will be glorious! Going for dinner with my mum, and hopefully having some celebrations over the next couple weeks :) 2) I've been so extremely busy recently. I've hardly had time to work on anything! Spent the last 2 weeks writing code for two classes, Computer Science 453 (Introduction to Computer Graphics), and Computer Science 301 (Large-Scale Software Development). In 453, I managed to pump out a fairly functional clone of Paint (with limited functionality, of course), and in 301 I was required to write a web-se

Game Update: Working on the Line of Sight system. Optimizing. Adding light sources. Cool beans! Life Update: SO BORED THIS WEEKEND, oh my good gosh. Being conservative with one's money can really lead to some insanely BORING situations! Anyone out there (AKA my one reader) know of any good books I should start reading? I might have to resort to actually reading my.... ugh... textbooks. Let's hope it doesn't boil down to that. I've had this stupid illness all week, and it's driving me up the wall. I don't get sick very often, and I was fairly healthy all summer, but I guess my exposure to the germ ridden world of the University of Calgary i

Worked on the little dungeon crawler for a bit today. Using some resources at roguelikedevelopment.org, I managed to put together a basic Line of Sight system. Seems to work pretty well too! Here's the low-down on how it all works: The player (or any other unit that requires sight) has some code that describes where in the map it is currently sitting (Using the XY coordinate system). From this point on the level, we cast "rays" in 360 degrees around the player. Here's a quick image of how this works: Every tile that the ray touches without being blocked is noted as being "visible" by the player. When the player leaves the sight of a tile,