Cripes! - The Snipes Clone

So today I really didn't do much with the code itself. I did tweak my HUD implementation though, and I've begun work on keypress handling. Right now I'm just trying to figure out how to get the Cripes! playing view going. I figure I'm going to have a buffer that contains the entire map, and like the original Snipes the map will wraparound so you can step from the left side of the map to the right side. I'm just not sure how I'll implement that at this stage, but I suppose it's minor enough that I can leave it without wrapping for now.

I'm definitely proud of my HUD, it's one of the few parts of, well, anything that I've actually finished and I'm happy with. It could definitely be done better, but I like how easy my system is to use. Someone mentioned that I should modify it so that you can use more than just integers as the stat data, but at the moment I don't need to and I don't want to devote any time to pondering it. Using an analogy I read somewhere around here, I want to build a rope bridge first, and then expand it.

Recent bookreading

I finished my "Breaking Into the Game Industry" book by Ernest Adams, and I loved it. Even though it's a few years old, I think it most definitely still applies, and I highly suggest it to anyone else who is interested in the game industry (career-wise).

"Windows via C/C++", well, it's definitely interesting. I think it's a little too stiff in stylefor my liking, and I have no idea where to start with what I learn from it, but it's definitely an interesting read. It's pretty advanced though... I don't have many of those, heh, so I'm glad I picked it up. But, I've hardly gotten through the first 100 pages, and this is a thick book.

I haven't had a chance to put "World of Warcraft Programming" to use, so I can't say much on it yet. I like what I see though! (Not to mention, characters from the World of Warcraft webcomic "Looking For Group" are on the cover)


...Wow, and I thought this would be a short post. >_<


EDIT: I can never get away without an edit, can I? Here's a screenie of Cripes! so far.