Right, i’ve been busy the last couple of weeks with all manner of non-programming type things (and that’ll be true again in the very near future unfortunately) but yesterday and today saw a major leap in project 3 – and it has a name now, it’s called Happy Ball Is Happy (because he is) and here’s a screenshot of the current code during play:
Happy Ball meets the other happy balls!
The game is essentially finished now that the hiccups that were being caused by the ham-fisted way i was handling the draw cycle are fixed and it’s only lacking some proper attack pattern data to round things off and i’ll take another stab at adding joypad control because right now i’m rather ironically playing my own game with Joy2Key! That lot may well take a while since i have a few other things on my plate (which reminds me… i haven’t eaten much today!) but it won’t be too much longer before Happy Ball is truly with us!
Tags: Allegro, C++, game, Happy Ball, programming, shmup, shoot ‘em up, STG