If you read the last post in your feed reader you may have been puzzled what video I was talking about. The embedded Screenr video was stripped from the RSS feed, at least in my reader application. Therefore I’ve copied the video over to YouTube and try to show it to you again:

Please tell me if this post neither contains a video. You know bugs appear in swarms… those damned, little bastards!

Cheers,
Thomas

Quite some time went by since the last post. Time flies when you’re busy!

I just wanted to show what I’ve done during the last days. The following image shows a screenshot of Nordenfelt 0.1 on the left hand side and a screenshot of the upcoming version 0.2 on the right hand side:

I’m experimenting with background tiles at the moment. The old tiles were “hand-drawn” in GIMP. Crafting tiles this way needs too much skill and time for my project. Therefore I’ve switched over to rendering whole 3D scenes to images and tiling them afterwards. IMO that makes the visuals more consistent and lowers the artistic effort.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Thomas

I just recognized that the RSS feed shows only the very first blog post. This is because I’ve moved the blog to an URL sub directory after posting the first entry. I forgot to update the Feedburner settings accordingly.

The problem should be fixed now. If you are subscribed to this blog’s RSS feed (I hope so) and are missing the last few posts in your feed reader:

Unsubscribe and subscribe again, that should solve the problem.

Cheers,
Thomas

Just assembled the todo list for Nordenfelt 0.2. Man, that is going to be a big load of work!

I don’t know which points this version finally will contain but I will start with redesigning the player’s ship. Monday or Tuesday should bring you a list of rough designs from which you can choose your favorites.

That’s all for now. Weekend awaits!

Cheers,
Thomas