The Mezunian

Nothing too radical today: mostly just a bunch o’ gimmicks I added in. Simplified Sprites Nothing exciting: just merged the SpriteMovement class into the Sprite class, since I found the difference ’tween the 2 too hard to find. Also, SpriteMovement oft had to manipulate a lot o’ Sprite’s stuff, requiring me to make too much […]

Accompanying music. Winter firs—in the gray distancesnug green clumps.

It’s been so long (a couple days) that I forgot what I’d accomplished last time I wrote. Block Types ’Stead o’ relying on dumb enums, block types now have 2 corresponding lists: “components” & “conditions”—numerous simple pieces that can be combined into complex block behavior. Components affect what the block does, the corresponding conditions affect […]

The stories presented in this section explain, among other things, how the earth was formed and people were made; why the sun is so bright; how the tiger got his stripes; how the mosquito came to be; and why the Da-Trang crabs endlessly scoop up sand. Faurot, J. Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends, (p. 12). I […]

¡So much done! Title Screen & Messages As shown ’bove, a title screen, as well as a message screen that pops on ’pon starting the game, to say what you should do to beat the level, & 1 that appears ’pon beating the level. Game States In relation to this, a game state system, which […]

You fucked it up. I warned you not to do it. But you did. You were s'posed to be Mr. Jekyll, ¿remember? ¿Where did you hide? You were s'posed to say hi every morn, but look @ how low the quotas are; you were s'posed to keep calm e'en under the glare o' a ticking […]

Accomplished so much in the last few days: Fully-working camera that automatically adjusts to player position (if she goes past its inner boundaries) & map boundaries & can be moved independently with certain buttons. Block & Map system with tileset. After the slight tedium o’ creating the tileset, the need to create a hundred sprites […]

After days o’ not being able to do anything useful, I had a certain programming binge the past day or 2, which involved restarting a 2D platformer game I’d been starting o’er & o’er ’gain since 2014, since I’m anal-retentive. I’d always tell myself I should blog ’bout it, since it’s obvious that this fiddling […]

Buddha could not be more wrong: Though we plug ourselves tight together, We are not compatible.

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don’t think that I can take it, ‘Cause it took so long to bake it; & I’ll ne’er have that recipe ‘gain—¡oh, no! -Jimmy Webb ‘Pon reading many o’ my nonfiction work, one would see that I rarely write conclusions, & rarely write introductions, too. This […]