I just transplanted what’s probably the most complicated class in all of Soft Landing, “Interface”, into Paraplu. Along the way I chopped off a ton of messy code that I’m planning on rewriting. This is the class that draws all of our text boxes, menus, health bars, and so on. It’s not gorgeous, but it’s […]

I just finished much of the work on the improved Paraplu level editor. It’s a mode you can enter when you start the game, in which the character is replaced by a translucent square cursor. There are buttons for cycling through the various batches of tiles we have, each with 9 tiles in it. Then […]

So, I think last night was my major breakthrough that I had been waiting for. I’d like to thank Flight-Plan in particular for inspiring me to re-attempt the style I was originally going for, and to get it right this time. I studied some GBA games they’ve made and it was really useful. Strangely, my […]

Well, Jules and I decided that pixel-level collision is not really going to be necessary. We’re just going to have a kind of rectangular collision mask for each entity and each obstacle, and test against those. Given the tiled nature of the maps, this should work fine. It took about ten or fifteen minutes to […]

So Paraplu is already at the point where we can have enemies running around the map. I got them in the game today, and have them chasing the player with very simplistic behaviors. There’s a terribly primitive collision detector in there, checking whether they’re running into any solid objects, but it’s bad in that it […]

Soft Landing is an enormous game. When I imagine it in its finished state, it’s like Xenogears, Ar tonelico, Sakura Taisen, and other pinnacles of achievement in gaming, crafted by large teams of professionals working full time. I believe we will finish it, and I believe it will be everything we are wishing for. So […]