Games, games, games...
My life just seems to revolve around games and databases at the moment.
I've put my 3rd Year Project on the backburner this last week and a bit in favour of my current game project TrigoHappy. This is another game for Windows Phone written in XNA. The project is mostly there and has been in production for about 6 months now (though only about 2 or 3 of those have actually gone in to making the thing). The biggest hurdle in getting this off the ground has been performance optimisation, mostly within my game library that I use (which I may put on here some time), and getting every little bit of lag producing code that I can removed from the game.
Screenshot of the title screen of TrigoHappy
The only thing stopping this game going on the WP Marketplace, at the moment, are sounds. I'm having a difficult time getting the right sounds for the game. I'd also like some background music, but I may have to launch the game before I can make anything good enough. When it finally does go up it'll cost about £1.
I've also been working on the Tomb Ninja Travelodge game from the Three Thing Game competition, which Christophe and I hope to get finished soon (if we get it on the WP Marketplace then we get guaranteed entry in to next semesters' competiton). Most of the game is done, all that needs doing now is making a leveling system (which should be easy) and refining the menus and then it'll be market ready. But what we really want to do is an upgrade system where you can buy weapons, which will take a bit more time to do. The game will probably need a bit of refactoring, too, before we're happy with it to move on to getting it market ready. It was, after all, made mostly in 24hrs.
Databases, woo!
Since my 3YP has been on the backburner, not much has happened with it. I've created an interface where I can now load all the misc. data from the database into an application and view its juicy insides.
Screenshot of said program
Not very thrilling for the average viewer, but none the less helping me to understand my task at hand.
I also created another database to store all the road data, in the hopes that it will make accessing and referencing easier. But getting the data from a file to the database was a different matter. I made a program to handle it for me and the whole process took 40 mins, which I did not quite expect. I swear if I had not make it spew out a percentage, I'd have not let it finish...
Because everyone loves pictures!
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