User blog:C3PO the Dragon Slayer/Avian Hunt: September 27, 2007

September 27, 2007


There it is! Your first look at Avian Hunt. The final version, of course, will not look much like this, and will include terrain, weather, and extensive amounts of other features. What this shows is a small portion of the work that's already been done.

Currently, I'm fixing the tweaks in the menus and getting the items to actually work. This includes deducting from the resource stash, but seeing that I haven't programmed the bit about gathering new resources, I'm using a couple cheat codes.

Which brings me to the chat system. I intentionally made one of the comments shown on the screenshot too long to be visible on the display to show that I'm still working on it and it isn't yet perfect. However, what's already there is rather fun: press ENTER and type a message, and see it go on screen! It was a bit of a puzzle to get the text to move up when its replaced by a new message, but that's already done. The chat system, apart from showing messages from enemy factions (or your own units, responding to your commands) and allowing you to send messages during hypothetical online play, doubles as a means of entering cheat codes.