RE: [palito-dev] Knock knock?

[Mark Storer]

I admit, I'm vaguely interested in development.  But I've also got a pet 
project or two of my own, and working on Palito would take away what little 
time they get.

I just finished a game programming night course at a local community college.  
The advanced students had the whole semester to come up with just about 
anything they wanted.  My project uses boost_1_31_0 and DirectX 8.0, an odd 
combination.  That's the latest and greatest from www.boost.org, and an older 
version of DirectX.  No sound, pathetic-but-present scoring/health display (GDI 
calls in a directX app: flicker), only one enemy type, and "programmer art".

Groovy particle effect system though.  Just point-sprites and solid colors (not 
one texture in the whole game), but it's amazing how far you can get with "just 
point-sprites" when it comes to particle effects.  Probably not terribly 
efficient though.  Running on my computer and card it's hard to tell until 
things get Really Bad.

Not bad for 4 day's work.  That's a slight disservice... I had 
joystick/keyboard/mouse code, and could draw a mesh on the screen.  I went from 
there to something not unlike Robotron, over the course of an extended weekend 
(took a couple days off for cramming).  I'm a citizen of Procrasi-Nation.

I'd give you a link if I had the thing on the web.  My ISP offers 10mb of free 
space, I just might make use of it.  I was thinking about just sending it out 
as an attachment to the list, but my manners got the better of me.

The .zip is 218k.  Anyone interested?

--Mark Storer
  Senior Software Engineer
  Verity, Inc.



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> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:57:38PM -0700, Mark Storer wrote:
> > So...  About this whole "Palito" thing.  Any progress of 
> late?  And how did you pick that particular name anyway?
> > 
> 
> no progress since 2003/11.
> but lately i've been thinking about coming back to it..
> 
> about the palito name:
> it's from the (initial) graphic (lack of) design.
> the unit drawings was (even more) like stick-man drawings.
> 'palito' is stick in portuguese (me and zed are from brazil).
> 
> 
> just out of curiosity: are you interested in the development,
> or just in playing the game when it's finished?
> 
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