Siege's Time log

Times are PST

Jul 13, 02:30 Started 8 hours late. I'm doomed! Oh well. I've decided to make a castle protecting game, where you have to keep the barbarians away from the castle wall. Weeee!!!

Jul 13, 06:00 I have some art done. I made a screenshot. So very sleeeeepy.

Jul 13, 14:15 No time for shower... must program!

Jul 13, 16:07 Basic framework for display stuff is done, working on getting the knight to move across the castle wall.

Jul 13, 18:15 The knight dances a little jig when he moves across the castle wall. Rock throwing is about 75% there.

Jul 13, 20:14 Panic sets in... will I be able to finish in 20 hours? Or will I die a horrible, horrible death before then? The knight throws rocks. Should I rename the game to Rock Throwing Simulator Turbo Championship Edition and be done? Decisions, decisions.

Jul 13, 21:56 Tick tick tick. Holy crap the time is going by fast! Had a nasty slowdown problem, but I fixed it. I'm attempting to get the basic wall climbing barbarians working.

Jul 14, 00:25 Wall climbing barbarians are working. I can hit them with rocks too. I need a short break. Why am I listening to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack?

Jul 14, 01:33 I seem to have hit a brick wall. The speed problem has come back to kick my ass. I'm not sure what to do to fix it. If I don't fix it, I can't add any more to the game or it will be insanely slow.

Jul 14, 04:25 WOOOO. I fixed it. There were too many timers fired off all the time, so there was an event bottleneck. I put the graphics updater in a seperate thread with the java.util.Timer. Now everything is pretty nice and smooth. Working on ropes now.

Jul 14, 05:00 It's becoming difficult to concentrate. The hounds are getting closer now. It won't be long before they pick up my scent.

Jul 14, 09:29 Ha ha ha ha! I'm done! After the 1:33am - 4:25am 'hump', it was pretty much clear sailing. The sounds effects sound... interesting. They all came from my mouth, plus the help of CoolEdit Pro 2.0. It's time for sleep, then to watch everyone try to finish their games in time. Good luck everyone!

Jul 14, 17:40 Made slight optimization. This thing will probably run like crap on anything less than a ghz