Starting over…

Apr 25 2010

So, to start off with a summary, I started over with a lot of the work on Grief.  The engine wasn’t fast enough, and the script wasn’t tight enough.  Got a shitload of work done on both over the past week or so (since from now until June, this is the only thing that I have to work on, at all).  You can see where the new engine in the Grief Demo tab, up top.  The character works way better than before, and that’s a really big improvement in my eyes.  This is the third time I’ve tried making a platformer with Box2D, and I think I might have really gotten it down now.  The way he works is at least vaguely interesting, so I’ll probably write something about it in the near future.

Also, I hooked up the Jack animations from Company so that he wouldn’t be a green rectangle anymore.  Once I find a character artist, I’ll get the actual game art put in.

Everything is working better than before, and I’m satisfied.

4 responses so far

  1. Gustavs
    on 25 May 2010 at 3:33 pm

    My advice would be to give up on Box2d entirely. Physics need not be so painful. :p

    Nape or Physaxe would be better choices.

    http://code.google.com/p/nape/
    http://code.google.com/p/physaxe/

    Sorry for the late response, forgot to when you posted.

  2. Carrie
    on 28 May 2010 at 4:07 pm

    Can\’t compare it to the previous demo since I wasn\’t around to play it, but things definitely seem to be running nicely. When I read you were basing the game off the Kübler-Ross model (which I’ve always found fascinating) I became even more eager to see the final game. Keep up the good work!

  3. Liza
    on 21 Jul 2010 at 2:30 pm

    out of curiosity, where do you usually find your character artists?

  4. tiffany
    on 20 Aug 2010 at 9:32 pm

    Good post….thanks for sharing.. very useful for me i will bookmark this for my future needed. thanks for a great source.agre

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