Renault on 22/12/2018 at 23:36
Congrats in advance, icemann. I just picked up your last game a few days ago, so I'm a bit behind. Hope the new one does well. Btw, what did you use to make it?
icemann on 23/12/2018 at 02:10
I coded the game together in a mix of SDL 2.0 (which is a sound and video libray) and a engine I've been adding to across projects ever since Bipolar Game. With every new project I do, I add better stuff to it. For example, with this one I upgraded it up to SDL 2.0 (previously I'd been using SDL 1.2) which gave me some extra things to play with like transparency with the images (eg you'll see it in use with the "PLAYER 1 TURN" that goes across the screen in the versus mode video, and with how the instances of a revealed letter appear on screen).
The only trouble with:
"Each player is given 3 re-rolls that they may use to replace the newly-revealed letter with a different letter, for a chance at more matches on screen" is that it doesn't say that it's for the entire match/game. So that may confuse some people into thinking they get 3 re-rolls per turn.
Shadowcat on 23/12/2018 at 02:51
So "match" means "game"? Like football?
Can't you just say "game" then?
Or is it like tennis, where the game and the match are not the same thing?
Seriously, that wording is hugely confusing, when you are at the same time talking about random letters being a "match" for the words on the screen.
(To me "the match" surely meant "all the letters matching the new letter", and therefore "across the match" must have meant something with respect to the letters which were currently highlighted, or some such; but it really wasn't clear. Despite realising now that henke previously identified the two meanings, it still did not occur to me that the phrase was referring to "the current game".)
What about:
"Each player is given 3 re-rolls per game ..." ?
icemann on 23/12/2018 at 05:59
Sure.
Al_B on 24/12/2018 at 12:10
Congrats on getting the game completed!
icemann on 24/12/2018 at 23:49
Thank you. Merry xmas.
icemann on 25/12/2018 at 10:16
Quote Posted by smallfry
That looks great- nice work icemann! The versus mode definitely looks like fun. Is there joystick support? It would be cool if my gf and I could play on the couch. Anyway, congrats man :)
Joystick support now in. Took some work to get this working properly.
smallfry on 25/12/2018 at 16:42
Nice! I look forward to playing this on the couch!
Yakoob on 27/12/2018 at 20:53
w00t, congrats! Go go TTLG GameDev Krew with another release :D
icemann on 28/12/2018 at 06:52
How many of us is there now? Me, Yakoob, smallFry, henke. Others?
