By which I mean, the controls are nice and decent, and the track is also quite nice ('ish!) but the scaling is all off.

I think I've got a decent method for doing tracks.. Maybe.. The method goes like so. 1. Draw track onto 64x64 image. 2. Convert to string of text. 3. Add strings of track-text into sourcecode. 4. Convert string of track-text back into positions of pixels, and draw onto the buffer. 5. Drive! Seems to work. Next will be adding track-tracking so the game registers as you drive around the track.

OK, today I need to work out the track generation, as I didn't do a bloomin' thing on the game, yesterday!! Instead, I faffed about with looking into 3DS Homebrew and figuring out things, there.

Everything seems nice and stable with the Win/Linux/Mac framework, but it's a shame that Android and iOS aren't currently part of the journey. What better time then, to choose to take a really odd detour, and see if I can squeeze in a little extra.

This week's game might end up carrying over to next week, as I still have an awful amount to do, and not a whole lot of time left for this week. (Plus, it's Easter Weekend, and we've got family showing up, so there'll be less coding time for Jay!)

Arrrgh!! Buffers!!

Having attempted a whole host of other ideas, this week, I'm currently back to driving a car around a small track. Top-down, 2D, probably timer-based. Today will be about getting the physics to work, and figure out exactly what style the game will take.

So, I scrapped the Sheep Herder engine, and started a new "time trial based" engine instead. I got a classic Thrust style gravity ship, popped it at the start of the track on the top left of the screen. Fire for Thrust and then left and right.

I'm trying my best to figure out a nice control scheme for this Sheepdog game, but the two main methods don't appear to be working out.

I spent most of yesterday fiddling around with lots of different control methods for the Sheep Herding game. After a number of methods, I've settled on having "Come" and "Go" buttons.

I'm not happy with the way the little sheepdog turned out, and spent ages last night trying to make it look a little more canine, and less like a rat!! I still haven't quite figured it out. .. I'm certainly no artist!

Links : Tweet - Game Mentioned I suppose I could do a racer, this week..?