Busy Bahrs

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Version 0.82

I recently took a Design Patterns class, which motivated a large redesign of the background code. This should make it easier to work with in the future, but won't affect it much from what you'll see.

This is a minor version, right in the middle of the redesign. You'll notice that I introduced some bugs and quirks. These will all be ironed out when the redesign is over.

Welcome

This will be my new page for development of Jesse's Maze Game. This is a maze game that will allow users to create and upload their own mazes. The title is, of course, tentative; I'll come up with something better once I complete it.

I've been developing this game for about 4 years in between school. I hope to have it finished within 2 years, but we'll see.

To try the maze game out, just click the Show Maze Game button above.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

History

Here are the announcements and history from the old page for Jesse's Maze Game.

5/20/06: Version 0.3 - Put in restricted areas that you need a key to get into.
5/24/06: Version 0.4 - Put in arrows.
6/6/06: Version 0.5 - Put in the boats, but created a bug with the arrows.
6/10/06: Version 0.51 - Fixed the arrows bug as well as a bug with the boat (it would let you move after it stopped - it should only start moving when you step onto it from another square ie. pushing off)
7/14/06: Version 0.6 - Put in invisible ground switches as well as pressable switches. Press the switches with the space bar.
8/7/06: Version 0.7 - Made the images editable with - they are packaged in what I call a Motif. Also made a Motif editor. I have used a new motif to emphasize what it does. Notice that animation is now possible.
8/31/06: Version 0.71 - Status bar. Whoo. 1/18/07: Version 0.8 - More with the status bar, treasure, green and orange keys/areas, and press "m" for map ("m" again to exit)
Version 0.8 1/18/07: More with the status bar, treasure, green and orange keys/areas, and press "m" for map ("m" again to exit)

Here is my plan for the future of making the maze game:

Version 0.9 - add more mazes
v. 1.0 - the official release!
Editor - The downloadable maze editor. I plan to release it after v. 1.0 comes out.
v. 1.1 - improve graphics and animation
v. 1.2 - status bar and mini map