Devember Day 05
Today was the first day where I actually wasn't that excited to do some game development. Maybe it's because it is the weekend and I kind of want to relax a bit, or because I've just never consciously attempted to code everyday of the week for an extended period of time. I've probably gone longer than five days in a row programming every day, but doing it purposely is a little different.
Either way, I did get a good hour of work done on TM495. Nothing particularly interesting, I spent most of the time working on the movement system. It's not currently working, and the camera offset is turning out to be more difficult to implement than I thought it would be. Although, it is the kind of thing where you just add a negative sign somewhere and everything works perfectly, so I haven't given up hope yet.
I've also been distracted all evening by the streaming of HandmadeCon 2015. I've been listening in on that most of the night, including now as I type this. If you haven't heard about it, and you're interested in game development at all - or even software development in general - I'd highly recommend checking all of the talks out. They will all be posted on YouTube in the near future. The general premise of HandmadeCon is that software these days is poorly written, and things would be a lot better if developers actually knew more about the systems they were working on. The convention was created by Casey Muratori, who hosts the Handmade Hero twitch stream, where he teaches viewers how to make a game from scratch in C. This is the first year of the convention (2015), I would be quite surprised if it doesn't become an annual conference.
Anyways, back to the point of this whole thing. I didn't really write any code that's worth sharing today, and a lot of it will undoubtedly be changed very soon. So, I won't be sharing any code today, even though the rules of the challenge say you're supposed to. It will be on GitHub at some point. Hoping tomorrow will have more fruitful results. In the mean time, here's a screenshot of how things are looking right now:
