Blog is NOT dead.

Like I said in an earlier post. I won't be posting a lot these days. I have a shitload of work to do for school and friends to take care of, so the little time I get to program stuff is spent in fruitless attempts to re-engineer my movement system. That or creating sprites or tiles. I'm hoping to be able to post a bit more in the coming weeks, I just need some new material to blog about. I'll find something new to implement in my game and work on it.


Until then, take care !

The steam is gone, Phew

Finally, my exam is gone and I did well. To keep dust from settling in I'd like to share this post about programming languages that I found a few months back. Hilarious. 

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.

1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.

1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.

For more of this visit this page.  


Updates coming for the Design ! Stay tuned.

Update on the blog and an Upcoming Project !

Blog Update

I wanted to re-assure you that my blog won't be focused EXCLUSIVELY on programming, the vast majority of my posts are going to be around that subject but I might sometime write tidbits of text about this or that.

Upcoming Project

Since the last few days, I have been looking for a project in which I could submerge myself and work on in my spare time. I am still searching but I am getting closer to having an idea in mind. I've wanted to program a game for a long time now, not a good one or anything remotely revolutionizing but something that I could do that would strengthen my grip on my programming language. I tried a messing around with a console interface but I couldn't bring myself to making anything else than a very boring text scroller without any semblance of combat and adventure. 

So from this day on, I am leaving the world of console game programming and moving on to 2D graphical game programming. I was thinking along the lines of one of these two screens:

The big panel in the middle of the second image and covering the whole window is where the game will take place. 

My idea of the game is that it is going to be a 2D top down RPG, much like Lufia or Golden Sun and the likes. I would draw the sprites, make the music and the "animations". The biggest challenge to my mind right now will be to program the engine of the game and make it as easy to re-use as possible. With my little experience in the domain I expect this to be quite a challenge.

Feel free to check my gallery of pictures related to the project here. Not much right now but I will update it as I make progress.