So I finally created a cool game at the gym last night. I've always been kinda jealous of the fact that some of my other coach buddies have come up with cool games to play with the gym equipment. So I was just lying on a barrel, which is used to teach back handsprings, and I was just rocking side t…

Ta dum! I give you progress bars!! [smile]

Not bad, a widget a week eh? Sounds like a good pace to me. Hopefully I can make it two widgets a week tho. That would be nice since I still have 4 or 5 more to go.

Anyways on to the details. What you see here are actually two different kinds of progress bar…

Well, I finally finished up my GUI interface and my first widgets, the horizontal and vertical scrollbars. Yes!! And it works! YES!!

*does happy dance*

This is freakin awesome. Now that the GUI framework is in place, I have a set structure to follow in creating the other controls, which makes it easi…

Well, so much for debugging and testing on Sunday eh? [smile]. I ended up spending the day at a gymnastics meet instead. Then Monday I was shopping all day for a bookshelf for my room and then spent the night catching up on email and forums and doing the GDNet newsletter. Then Tuesday I bought and …

Saturday, November 13th

So today my local IGDA chapter held a sort of Breaking Into the Industry event thingy at a local college. It was pretty cool. I got to sit on a panel with some of the other experienced industry vets in the chapter and answer questions from the audience. We had a pretty good t…

Hullo. Yea I haven't been updating regularily the past few days. The simple reason is that there's not much to update on. This is, after all, a game development journal. And while I will admit to having a rather interesting personal life with many tales to tell daily, I don't want this to become a …

Got some more work on my GUI done last night. I implemented the base widget class, and started to implement the scroll bar widget. I got like a quarter done with that when I realized I shouldn't be trying to combine both horizontal and vertical bars into one class, since they move differently and a…