I’ve been spending the weekend relaxing. Sorta. More Relaxing and debugging. Anyway, the name of this space thingy is Dwarf Star. I like it. I’m not changing it. Don’t try to convince me. Phyta got featured over at TIGSource so that’s cool. I think I might put some more work into an improved version of that when I get the time. Kinda like the PS3 version of fl0w versus the free version. Only mine will be free, because I hate making money…

So, moving on, today I’m setting up the Dwarf Star profile thingy. Check it out when its up.

Wrote this cause I wanted to take a break. From writing code. So I wrote code to get away from writing code. Something’s wrong with me. It plots trajectories of particles shot out in all directions in a gravitational system. Not much more to say about it. Check it out if you are so inclined.

I came into this project with really no prior knowledge of how to make adequate buildings in vector art. I think I’ve gotten better at it but the downside of this is that I’m going to have to go back over the first things I did to make the style consistent. Here’s another picture because I like pictures.

I’m thinking the tractor beam is going to have some kind of wavy line effect (not necessarily like this). I’m also thinking there will be a tractor beam. It’s so much easier than the whole harpoon thing because it means my physics engine can stay rudimentary. Anyway, compulsory picture:

It was a little tricky getting the whole glowy curvy line thing to work because I have no idea how to get a glow shader to work with this but through the magic of .png tiling it’s okay.

I had the idea of attaching rocket engines to the planets. I think it’s a good idea.

This took me like 12 hours to write. The rope code is mostly solid and integrated now. Mostly. I think I’m going to go to bed.

edit: Here’s another.

I am a fan of them.

edit: Now with curved clouds because you asked so nicely. I think I might make them a little smaller and lower though.

edit2: Maybe like this.

I can get back to work. The visual feel of this game is turning out to be kinda kooky. That’s okay because I want to make something that’s fun instead of just artsy. I’m going to be working on this nonstop for a few days because I keep getting new ideas for projects and if I start something else now, I’ll never finish this.

So much.

Finals are this week so I’ll probably be getting less work done and getting fewer updates up than usual. However, after those I have endless amounts of free time. I intend to use it well.