Slowly but surely...

After some research I decided, my GUI will be done "the Microsoft way". Video may be a bit jittery, because my notebook was running in the "power saver" mode. but it clearly shows all moveable components. Things are getting to look nice-ish.

GUI - the fiddly bits

Meet the crew. Well, partially at least:

Just a small taste of things to come...

Not feeling very productive this evening. A slice of cheese cake, a quick online shootout in Shadowrun, but no super-human powers to do coding. A weekly eye-candy instead...

Torque is soooo dead...

Can't force myself to 'rewrite' the game AGAIN. Insted started working on a Windows Phone 7 version (well, that will be completely different game). One thing I realised is that for such a simple project, Torque (or any engine for that matter) was just slowing me down. Things that took me 3 days with torque (crashing editor, stuff not being saved, crashing engine) can be done with pure XNA within 3 hours!

That's how things look like in a Windows Phone 7 Emulator.

It feels like starting from scrach again...

I downloaded the latest TorqueX 4.0 Community Enhanced Edition, which in theory should be compatible with that latest XNA 4.0 (have a look at the dedicated portal here: http://torquecev.com/), but I am looking into the code and wondering, where was I... 4 months is a long time.

I feel like I need to start with something simple. A new, better title perhaps? How about "UFO carnage"? OK, sounds good.

Next. Another simple thing before I embark into adapting my existing code into the 4.0 stuff... A shiny GUI perhaps.

Perhaps.