Treating Everyone like Objects

Coding wise, nothing too new to report. I finished off the lower level SDL interface objects and created the skeleton for the main gaming loop. Although I made a remark about Game Dev's "One Line Main" program, I am starting to see its usefulness in limiting scope and reducing the need for some type of global variables. At least now I can provide a context for most of active game data so that process events and rendering cleanly.

Tomorrow, I start up with the Tile and Board objects. I am not sure if I will have anything complete to release on Friday, but we will see what I do over the holiday weekend.

From a design perspective, I have given more thought about what I am trying to achieve and about how long it should take. I spent some time on RogueBasin and seeing what has been done before.

I definitely plan on spending my time on my strengths. That is mostly in engine development and game logic. For this project it will be a 2D Iso tile based game. How interesting the tiles and maps become depend on how much time I spend on art. I don't plan on going to far past some fairly basic graphics.

But it should end up to be a small but complete game. It will just be a simple dungeon delve of some depth. Though I am much better at creating story so I might put some meaning into the crawl.