The Great Fire postmortem, part 2/2

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
 Game Design, Game Development, Graphics, Audio, Alakajam

This is the second part of this postmortem. Catch up on the first part here.

Sunday morning: controls and gameplay

We have fire, we have buckets of water, we can get the buckets to the fire… now what? Throw ’em, of course! So if a peep in state PASSING sees that its destination cell is not manned, but rather flammable, it will throw the water onto the fire. (It will also do this if there is no fire. I played with the thought of keeping houses wet to prevent them from catching fire, but didn’t get round to implementing this.)

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Bits and pieces

Sun, 6 Feb 2011 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
 Cart Frenzy, Programming, Audio

Game development can be a pain sometimes. Remember my writings on threading last week? This week has been more of the same kind of stuff: engine improvements, code cleanups, bugfixes, and only some small new features that are actually visible.

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