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[carlfoxmarten]

After finding out why my Tetris-Power project wasn't running on my laptop, I've resumed development on it.
(apparently, my embedded Intel graphics-card doesn't do anti-aliasing, so I'm now making it fall back to no anti-aliasing if none is available)

Currently, I have a working "screen" system (to show and hide screens such as Options, the Main menu, the Splash/loading screen, and of course the main game screen) which I'll be using extensively to split the main drawing code out of the main entry point.

I still don't have any artwork done up for it though, and that's going to be very important if I want this to look professional...

Next I need to work on, well, the rest of it, including widgets (button, checkboxes, drop-down menus, etc. Mostly for the Options screen), the mesh-loading system, the block shapes and colours, the input system, and then powerups.

I guess I still have a long way to go...

Comments

[teric.livejournal.com]

Stick with it, Carl--it makes a huge difference when you can bring a project to full completion (not just 80%, like most independent projects...)

You can do it.

[carlfoxmarten]

I never truly understood just how much work goes into a full project before.

I don't even have the grid or shapes yet, and I already have over two thousand lines of code so far!

Eh, who knows just how much work will go into this...

My current hangup is finding a look. I have ideas for the actual game portion (block shapes, colours, powerups, possibly even achievements), but for the overall look of the game I'm at a bit of a loss...
(maybe I need to try some plain vanilla graphics to start, then focus on gameplay, and figure out which direction that goes to inform the rest of the artwork)

[teric.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to decide on a winning look if you don't have an art background. I would suggest you get the functional side of the game to a very polished level, then worry about the look. Retrofitting sprites/textures/images is not difficult.