SpriteWorks SpriteWorks SpriteWorks!
All during the summer, I was on an ASP .NET and server trip. It included me reading 2 or 3 books on ASP and Javascript along with getting a new server to do a bunch of development on...well I've gotten the itch back for some old school game programming. I've been working on SpriteWorks over the last week and trying to get it to a state I deem "adequately" usable. I usually test this by taking the library and trying to make a simple puzzle game or arcade shooter, and figure out what should be added, changed for the better, or removed altogether. I guess i'm kind of nitpicky but thats how it is.
Right now the current support SpriteWorks has is a global drawing manager, input(kb, mouse, gamepad), sprites, particle system, GUI system(to be redesigned...), sprite animations, math and utility libraries, and some other prototype classes for maps/grids and physics. I think that encompasses what it will probably be in the very end. So thats the update and imma get back to watching some college football and programming simulataneously, isn't that a weird combo? =D
Rough Times
it's been a kind of rough month, i moved to a new place not too far from my previous place, but it was rough on me with my knee being messed up. And worse, my mother unfortunately passed away last week after a long fight with breast cancer. The homegoing service(as my family likes to say) was last Saturday, and heard a lot of words from all the people she touched, and I even got up to say some things which i'm proud of myself for doing. I will really miss her.
I had the week off yesterday and got some things done and helped my family with some of the homegoing stuff...but to keep my mind off things i watched a lot of the olympics. The USA is being destroyed by China in Gold medal count, which is what really counts BUT the USA is sort of staying ahead in total medal count. Either way, I hope they can catch up. Other than that, I've seen a slew of movies that were hilarious, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, and Step Brothers....very good stuff. Well I guess thats it for now, back to work.
