i had a really good idea for a new command for the wave manager and it seemed like an incredibly simple feature to add as i was tootling home from Asda; simply have a “nudge” value for the nasty angle so that when a wave is being created using the script’s repeat function, each nasty in the wave is nudged on a few degrees on from the previous one. The nudge would mean that what previously took an item in the script for each of nine nasties moving in a “fan” could be done with a single entry…. but when the time came to implement this wonderous feature, the damned object oriented code with it’s stupid bloody linked list decided it didn’t want to play and i spent several hours getting incredibly frustrated and swearing at it. A lot. Until it was “persuaded” to do as it was told!
Since it works rather well (at least, it does after that painful installation), this feature will just have be passed on to the Bullet Mechanics framework and, whilst i was in a good mood at Jaguar Strike, it gained variant of that framework’s newly-added multi-bullet firing mode.
Tags: BASIC, BlitzMax, game, programming, shmup, shoot ‘em up, STG