Day 2 progress: camera and map classes are complete. Scrapped a bunch of useless/ugly tiles. Designed more of the player sprites. Got a working map to render. Tomorrow: player class and keyboard inputs and maybe states (intro screen, credits, etc).

@Specter
Was that your post on mingw-users I just replied to?

Get your New Avatar Pack here
(updated Avatars.cpp and Avatars.hpp for better error checking , and included Gully's cat avatar).

Use : Call PopulateAvatars and if it succeeds, you can call GetAvatar with whatever avatar you want. Valid sizes are 160, 64, and 32. Black and white only works with 32. Valid indices are from 0 to 11, in member order. Read Avatars.cpp:avatar_names to see who is who.

Protip. If you're using an atlas, allocate an area 12*(size + 2) by size + 2 on your atlas, create a sub bitmap of it, and then call CreateAvatarAtlas on the sub bitmap and CreateAvatars on that same bitmap. Then call GetAvatar as usual. It will use the sub bitmap of your main atlas to draw the avatars on, and then create sub bitmaps of each avatar on it as well.

What's the matter bambam? Run out of booze again?

But I love kitties!!!

Like this one

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EDIT
Progress.

Near to a working selection screen. My avatar testing is complete. The avatar pack should be good to go.

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Where to go from here?

I need some kind of theme or genre or basic clues as to what to go on.

If everyone could post 3 things that they would like to see in their game, that would be immensely helpful. (Oh, and things like monitor resolutions would be good - right now I'm working for 1024x768 as that is widely supported and emulated.)

I'll start :
1. Dungeons
2. Dragons
3. Hack n slash (text mode is cool too)

Sorry, I said I would be in but I will be out. I have a load of real life stuff to do and won't be able to make a game on time.

Well, for me it's too late to change direction anyway.

If you don't have enough to go on, maybe you can look a bit into the persons background and use some of that. Maybe you can spoof some elements from a depot / speedhack game of your subject?

Time for a vague progress update.

So here is the plan. I figure I won't have enough time to do a completely new game from scratch. So what I'm doing instead is taking an old competition entry from way back, and giving it an upgrade, new balancing, and extra polish. And a completely new theme. With the relaxed krampushack rules, I think that this should be ok. I'll replace most of the graphics so I'm hoping that it's going to be different enough to keep the secret safe.

So far I've programmed about 6-7 hours. I'll have to do day job and other llife stuff during the week, but I figure I should be able to spare another 10 hours or so before the deadline.

1. Cats
2. Noodles (as in like a bowl of Japanese-style ramen)
3. Designs with a nice color palette

Oh man, this is hard.

From My Secret Krampus I would like
1) a 4 stringed instrument, or many 4 stringed instruments, or a many stringed instrument
2) a bag of fireworks and a lighter!
3) world peace

[edit]
I'm (sadly) running Windows 10 and have been developing using MSVC Hopefully I can get a makefile going so this can be compiled on Linux more easily.

Update: hit a major snag in my code. Hoping to fix it by the day's end. Hack code is so messy.

Oh wow, that's a nasty one

Yea, I just ran into a few missing features in framework code. One related to al_set_new_bitmap_flags(), Allegro, al_clone_bitmap(), and drawing pixel-perfect scaled renders. I added a PR, btw. It ultimately resolved in me creating a new function in my framework.

But yes, there are a lot of holes in there! *Hacks are a great way to find them!

Oh, by the way, Adobe CC sucks, guys

The post I made was about copy constructor, std::copy(); error I was getting and then went into good programming practices.

Got past that snag I mentioned earlier. But I couldn't figure out why my camera wasn't following its target left or right... Turned out the target's getX() method was returning its y axis the whole time.