Plan for Adam Beaumont

Things moving again...

Another week or so and another bit of progress. After releasing a version of Roboherd with the dev snapshot that didn't update the right online hiscore page (whoops!) I've re-uploaded something that now points to the official site. So from now on anyone downloading the demo and playing with stats enabled should be able to see their best times on the website. I also did a bit of work on the php to get more information out of the database. Every time I do a bit of php tho i keep seeing other reports and tweaks that would be cool to do as well (top ten scores, most played missions, most frequent player, longest games) so my todo list just keeps getting longer.

On the game side I've been adding in some features for new maps - we now have a force field object and a switch object. You can link the two together so that if a robo goes over a switch then the force field switches on(off). I've written it so that you can associate a switch with pretty much anything, it just needs to have some script to respond to the call from the switch. You set all this up in the mission so the idea is that it should be pretty flexible for when we actually get someone who wants to build us some maps ! I'm thinking about putting a page on the website together that shows all the objects we have and how to use them in a mission (sort of like a guide to mapping). Ideally I'd like to do some work on the in game mission editor (cos its not very good) but thats I think just too big a distraction and would take too long. Maybe someone else can come up with that and I can concentrate on Roboherd!

On the graphics side we're doing a bit of polishing so we might have some better screenshots to update the web with in a couple of days or so.