General Tweaking

Hello. I haven’t done that much this week, wich is quite strange considering that there is only one week remaining of the project. I would have done more but the truth is, I’m not entirely sure what there is left to do (that we still have time to implement and test properly). So, what I’ve actually done this week is: found some memory leaks and fixed them. We store all of our game objects in 2-3 vectors in our gamestate so that we easily can use them to check for collisions and stuff like that. The problem was that we didn’t delete them after each time we’ve used them, but instead just exited the gamestate went into the upgrade state and then back to the gamestate just creating them again. I’m not entirely sure why someone havn’t done this earlier but hey, it’s there now and that’s the important part. Another thing that I will do this weekend is fix our start menu. Currently it’s a bit buggy at best. That is if you don’t hit the “Options” or the “Exit” buttons. If you do, the whole thing crashes. The other thing that I am going to work on is the mouse tracking in the main menu. Currently it’s a bit off, so when you try to click on the “Start Game” button you have to click the bottom of it for anything to happen. I kinda know what the problem is, namely the way I wrote it to check if the mouse position is on the button doesn’t include any code to calculate the frames of the window, so it calculates the buttons positions via the upper left corner of it. This is possibly a not so good idea but that is why we are updating it. Another thing that I will be doing this weekend is adding the final art to the graphical user interface and reposition the things so that they fit together nicely:

This will probably take a bit of tweaking since the background art is a bit too big for the rest of the things and needs to be scaled down a bit but I am certain that I will get it done. After all, I don’t have much else to do and coding is fun =). I thing that will have to do for this week, the last of blog posts for the Gamedesign – Intro course. Overall I’d say that it’s been a quite interesting and fun experience that I’ve learnt quite a lot from. Let’s just hope that the things stick aswell =p