Android Evolution

A while Back, I told you i’d be one of those people who rarely updates. Well here’s the Gist. College has been good, made lots of friends yada yada.
I went to the darkside and downloaded XNA (I got a year on Dreamspark).

This means I can make pc/xbox360 games for free

I’m making a platformer at the moment, in order to teach myself how XNA works, and to show Becca how the Indie game industry works.

I’ll release the Source + Binaries when it’s done, I’ll put up a donate link to see if I can get enough to buy a years premium subscription. That means you can get it for the low low price of 80G ($1)(68p)

I’ve currently got a basic platformer (using the XNA starter kit), it scrolls, has a easy to use level creator (not ingame sorry), and has my girlfriend as the voice xD

I’ve started implimenting a “Gun”, so you can kill enemies! The enemy death sound is awesome btw (a pitched down version of me screaming)

That’s all for this month (probably!)

Basic IDE (BIDE) is going pretty well, though I’m having some trouble with wxwidgets on windows, but I’ll see what I can do to fix it.

Anyone (if there is anyone reading this?) Know how I could get syntax highlighting/ auto complete (specifically the tab after ‘{’ and -tab after ‘}’ ??
It’s bugging me, i could do a search and replace for each letter typed, but thats a hideous hack and would probably mess things up.

My third project is underway to help my second project, which is helping my first project… I feel like i’m going to be along the lines of this: http://xkcd.com/349/
On an alternate note, all I had to do in firefox 3.5 was enter (”xkcd bsd”) and it took me right to it. Impressive!!

I’ve just installed fedora 11, and am upgrading it as I type this: (900MB worth of upgrades + other packages).
I’ve only ever really used ubuntu and its derivatives (mint, crunchbang, kubuntu), so this is new to me.
It’s almost (almost) easier than ubuntu!

Now onto what’s happening:

I took a look at the “D” programming language and its features, and realised, this is what I need for ALICE. v2.0 has c++ linkage goodies and various other bits and pieces, and I have a feeling D will take off quite well, so I’ve decided to get into it early. Meanwhile, My awesome girlfriend will attempt to keep a c++ variant of ALICE going.

So, I was happily rewriting some old programs in D, just to get a feel for it (it’s pretty awesome, honest!), and was trawling through the wiki, when I found out, GDC (the Gnu Compiler for D) was using V1.0… Well C++ linkage was a big thing for me, so off I trotted to the Digital Mars website, downloaded the latest DMD compiler, and set up my .bashrc etc… The bloody thing worked in /bin/sh and bash, but geany hated it, would just refuse it’s existence etc etc…
Well I planned on doing a lot of compiling/building, so manually typing in dmd -w -c /path/to/very-long/file.d /path/to/very-long/file every few minutes or so, was going to get pretty tiring…

I also realised I need to learn a GUI of some sort (if not to make it cooler to use ALICE with).

So off I trott now, to the wxwidgets website, where I am learning the grand scheme of gui design (I attempted to learn QT a while ago… that failed).

So far, I have a text editor, but no real way of selecting which file to open, close etc…

Obviously it’ll be written in a similar style to geany, with compile, build, make support, a built in terminal, support for DMD and an optional download which’ll include all compilers (and allow it to be run from a USB pen), windows and linux, with a possibility for mac.

If you want mac support that badly, you can always buy me one

Thing happened: That’s what.

I have a funny feeling this is going to be another blog where very post is “Sorry I havn’t posted in a while”, but with a little perseverence, you should get an update, even if it’s every few weeks or so.

What also sucks is the meagre 1GB Bandwidth I get. Gosh the server’d throw a fit if I actually became popular!

Things that have happened so far:
My great grandma:

Alice Jones, mother of 3, grandmother of 4, great grandmother of 3, died on the 21st at roughly 10PM. She was 93 and had a very good long life. Her funeral was today, and I guess that’s what spurred me to write on this blog. I’m not asking for sympathy or anything, I just think it’s about time I got things done.

I’ve enrolled at college:

I start Wigan+Leigh sixth form a week on monday (7th september). My A levels are: Music, Maths, Physics and ICT for those interested.

I setup a google code page:

http://alicechatbot.googlecode.com

And if you noticed, I have changed the name of the chatbot in memory of my great grandma. It’s the least I can do. I hope she becomes famous

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Tomorrow is free! Whippay!!  But saturday my cousin is staying over + I have a 21st party, sunday is a family get together and godknows whats happening after then!

I got the program to recognise if a word is stored in a file! Now I just need to structure the database style program I have created and make sure that each word can be recognised into its own catagory.

Please, if you even so much as glance at this webpage, give me an email at Obsidiandesire@gmail.com