Birth of an Octopus
School has been crazy busy lately so haven’t had much of a chance to update. However, finally decided on my final project so I figured I would update this and maybe track my progress on it. The name of the game is Mystical Spatula Relic: The Narcoleptic Octopus Scandal. You play a young man called into an alternate dimension to rescue the mystical spatula from the narcoleptic octopus. Â It’s a sidescrolling adventure game that will be out for the iPad within 4 weeks (if I do well 😛 ). Hopefully it should be fun to do. I’m using graphics from the lostgarden, so it’ll look kind of cartoony, but that’s what I’m looking for. I’m a bit nervous about the amount of work required, but hopefully the whole grade issue will motivate me. I guess I’ll see how it goes.
So, this has been sitting in my non-edited posts for a little while. I’ve made some pretty good progress. Had the first in-class review on thursday and it went ok. Progress so far has been wrangling with OpenGL. I utilized  a version of Apple’s Texture2d class to load up UIImages into OpenGL textures, and made a wrapper Image class for it. I made my render loop and had it draw using the DisplayLink. Currently I simply have a couple tiles drawing. Looking to the future I want to have a map loaded and drawing, and a player who can move around and scroll the screen.
Also, screenshot!