Another quick journal entry...unfortunately I've been working on a lot of
small things that aren't full completed (Second Player animation, final BG art,
ect), so while it may seem like I'm slacking, these logs don't list the
unfinished tasks. 
Last week I had made some changes to how the maps were loaded, leaving my
previous entry less interactive then I had hoped. This week I've fixed that, so
you'll get to actually test the current "sandbox" version of the game that I'm
currently working on.
Please give it time to load...it's getting quite large 
I fixed a few bugs, so this is actually much more solid than
last weeks version (that I couldn't upload). Anyone new to programming will find
that, even once a feature is implemented, a lot of time will go into polishing
that code to work with other game features.
One feature I did get in was the "Double Jump", where pressing
the jump button while mid-air will let you jump again. However, (as a game
player) I'm slightly torn on how it was implemented. While on the ground, you
can press and hold the button to charge your jump. When in mid-air, however,
holding the jump button too long will result in the player falling...getting rid
of the "I can stay in air forever my holding the jump button" cheese mechanic,
but still letting you charge your jump if you're careful.
I think this works, but again, it can be deceiving when
you're too close to the project.
Besides tweaking and polishing code, I also worked on designing
the first boss creature: a War Yeti named "Lieutenant Igor Sickle", one of the
commanding officers under in Old Man Winter's army. I won't talk about it too
much, but here are the progression shots of the Leutenant.
The Rough Draft
The Colored Design
The Final
I'm pretty happy with him, and if you like, I whipped up a
wallpaper version of him for the
wincustomize libraries.
Well, one more week and I'm hoping to have the entire engine
done. It's going to be tight, but I'm still shooting for feature completion.
After that, I'll have 10 full weeks to just focus content creation (which
there's alot of) while simply tweaking the engine, opposed to making huge
changes up until release.
That's never fun.
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