Game Update: Agenda and More

Instead of a feature spotlight today, we'll get an inside look at the agenda. As such, this is going to be a shorter look at the game. However, Feature Spotlight 5 will be shown next Friday at the release HandDrawn's first RC.

EDIT: (Nevermind.)

Without further ado, the agenda!

Agenda

Last week, the agenda told you that there were (and in some cases, still are) several things I hadn't done yet. They were:

• Make Level 4 and 5
• Patch up bugs with the other levels
• Improve the save/load system
• Improve the level complete system
• Fix crashes
• Lock up the tiger so he doesn't distract me or murder my computer
• Add at least one more enemy

But now, I've completed some and even added more to what I set out to do!

• Make Level 4 and 5
• Patch up bugs with the other levels
• ✓ Improve the save/load system
• ✓ Improve the level complete system
• ✓ Fix crashes
• Lock up the tiger so he doesn't distract me or murder my computer
• Add at least one more enemy

In addition to that, I've also made the following changes.

• Added "Smart HUD" (it slides down when you get hurt or die and goes away after about 5 seconds)
• Added "Smart Streaming" (this won't be activated in RC1. I hope to do more work on it later. All it used to do was disappear things when the player gets far away from them so they won't slow down the game. Ironically, it slowed it down even more with it on!)
• Improved the level select screen
• All-around UI improvements

Release Candidate 1 and the 25th

Initially, I hoped that I would be able to release HandDrawn RC1 for both Mac and PC on the same day. However, in light of recent discoveries, it seems that HandDrawn may not be starting on Windows due to an error which I am still trying to figure out. So far, I have one source that shows it isn't working, but it may just be a problem with just that computer. I hope to delve a little further into that matter because I don't want to give you guys a version of the game that doesn't work! This should not affect the release date of the Mac version because it seems to preform fine on my machine, but the Windows version may not be coming to the "downloads" page on the 25th. I hope to have more details on this development later next week.

So much for a short update! :P

~ Robert Varadan