Or perhaps “hates” is a little strong but I’ve broken it a couple of times since picking Project 5 back up after my deadline; two of the nastiest crashes were just trying to do a find and replace on my source but there was half an hour of head scratching when the damned thing refused utterly to explain where the syntax errors it found were located in the bloody code – turned out the “issue” was some comments added to the end of a line where a constant was defined… if there’s one thing that bugs me it’s bad error reporting.
But despite the tribulations there’s now a workprint of the still unnamed project. Apart from actually strapping a title page into the thing and performing the usual surgery so that the game can run as part of a larger loop rather than relying on the variables being nulled when they’re created, it’s pretty much done – the actual populating of the level will take a bit of time and i need to “fudge” a soundtrack as well…
Tags: BASIC, DarkBasic Pro, game, programming, shmup, shoot ‘em up, STG