April 28, 2008

  • normally i would never be up this late on a sunday night, but today is special.  you see, on saturday i participated in a triathlon at SJSU.  it was fun, but i am exceedingly sore and tired.  anyway, i checked my e-mail this morning and there was an e-mail from my swimming instructor.  he congratulated all of us and mentioned monday's class is optional.  so yeah, not going.  need time to sleep.

    so i spend the day coding.  i managed to completely finish my game design class project (as completely finished as i can get it, considering i'm working alone).  it no longer crashes (hooray), i've added in real textures for the platforms, fixed almost all of the platform bugs, and added in a boss.  the game's actually pretty hard.  the enemies are simple - they walk randomly and shoot randomly, and their shots are duckable.  the boss moves really fast, shoots in 8 directions almost constantly, and your character can't shoot upwards.  i'm kind of cruel.  anyway i implemented power-ups, a boss character, and fixed most of the bugs.  i would upload it, but it's enormous for such a simple game (thank you XNA and your inability to read compressed data) and i'd be kind of embarrassed.

    but yeah, that's one of three projects done.  i have two more due next week.  one i will spend a good portion of this week finishing.

    anyway i was getting ready to do my 154 homework and i checked the website for the assignment.  class is cancelled tomorrow.  no way in hell am i going to drive to campus for a 40 minute lecture on particles and animation, so i'm ditching game design.  which means tomorrow is an off day.  i'm going to finish up my work for CS 161 and stretch out on the couch.  perhaps i'll watch that last exile DVD i bought about a month ago.