Things have been slow lately. My highschool final exams are nearing, and I am trying to pretend that I am preparing to them – which of course I don’t, no matter how I like (or not) that. This odd state of mind, lying somewhere between “I have to work” and “I have to learn” prevents me from effectively doing either, which in the end makes me as lazy as possible.
Nevertheless, I managed to scrap some creative thinking from back of my mind and made three small (each is smaller than 16KB and less or equal to 180px in height and 180px in width), side-bar flash games, Pixelagne. I… Guess they need no explanation actually :P.
On the other news, I’ve been poking around BlitzMax lately trying to figure out why does it hate me. I noticed it first while making some levels for Poing! PC, the game was awfully slow, the FPS was somewhere between 20 and 30. Then I came up with an idea to tinker a little with my own Poing remake, and I saw one of the worst sights in my life – white screen with colored rectangles and black rectangle in the playfield’s place and it was also sluggish. I am guessing that Windows 7 or 64bits can be the reason, though I got the latest drivers. Now I consider either getting a better notebook (as soon as I pay off my Yamaha keyboard) or buying a stationary PC. If the latter I will make sure to grab two LCD screens, as that is a true pleasure to work on two, especially with pretty advanced IDE’s, like Flex, BLide or Flash.
One last thing I have in my mind is making an in-browser, flash based, platformer-shooter-RPG-like game, something not very like Kingdom of Loathing or other Browser RPGs, but that is a matter for different month. For the first time in over two weeks I feel a strong need to code now, so I shall proceed to that.
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April 12, 2009 at 10:51 am:
I would guess by what you say that Windows 7 just doesn’t like the graphics chipset of your notebook :(
A lot of manufacturers are not updating their drivers to be compatible with Win7 yet, but at the same time, if they provide a Vista 64-driver, that should work just as well – there’s almost no difference between Vista-64 and Win7-64.
April 13, 2009 at 12:41 pm:
Unfortunately, even though I grabbed the latest Vista-64 drivers the difference isn’t noticeable. Hopefully, sooner or later I will make myself find enough free space to install Win XP, but knowing myself that won’t happen soon.
On the brighter side, BlitzMax generally works fine. When making apps from scratch the speed is entirely endurable, though they can’t be too graphic intensive.
April 27, 2009 at 9:40 pm:
There’s a big in Pixelagne I and Pixelagne II.. If the score is equal to 0, the game keeps loading when it’s going to verify the score…
April 27, 2009 at 9:40 pm:
Bug, not “big”
April 27, 2009 at 9:41 pm:
Aaaand, I meant Pixelagne II and III.. Not I and II.
April 27, 2009 at 10:50 pm:
I’ll try to look into it if I don’t forget ^^;
Quite a lot on my head lately (theoretically)…