{"id":242,"date":"2009-05-12T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-05-12T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:51:57","slug":"lots-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2009\/05\/12\/lots-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy. The first thing to mention is that there is now a web forum for GSB here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/forums\/phpBB3\/viewforum.php?f=19\">http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/forums\/phpBB3\/viewforum.php?f=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That should allow people to let their opinions and suggestions and questions run wild, and keep things a bit organised. Feel free to post whatever thoughts you have there.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve been doing some debug GUI which is handy for finding bugs, I already found and fixed a bug where ships didn&#8217;t reselect optimum targets correctly. I also redid the tractor beam graphic so it didn&#8217;t have one aliased edge and one straight one (needed to use two overlapping textures to get it right). Plus recently I totally re-jigged the sound system for the game so the positional sounds now pan correctly as you move the camera. Last but not least, I&#8217;m adding a system where you can have race-specific weapons. Initially you will have one race to play and need to unlock others, so I&#8217;m hoping this makes for better game play because:<\/p>\n<p>a() you will initially be zapped by weapons you don&#8217;t recognise or know the exact statistics of and<\/p>\n<p>b) when playing as one race, you will not have access to all weapons, so playing a different race will mean adjusting your tactics accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much to do, but the game is coming along nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy. The first thing to mention is that there is now a web forum for GSB here: http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/forums\/phpBB3\/viewforum.php?f=19 That should allow people to let their opinions and suggestions and questions run wild, and keep things a bit organised. Feel free to post whatever thoughts you have there. Today I&#8217;ve been doing some debug<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Lots of things<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2009\/05\/12\/lots-of-things\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}