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Crystal Towers 2 Demo approaching
Nov. 6th, 2009 11:36 pmUnlikely as it might seem for me to be saying this, I'm now at the stage where I'm putting the finishing touches on to a demo version of Crystal Towers 2, after being spurred on by a suggestion that it should go on to Clickteam's monthly disc. Previously I've been able to release things to testers with provisions that "this doesn't work right yet" or that things will be finished later, but I don't have those excuses now, so I've spent the last couple of weeks polishing up things so that they're presentable. And the results are looking pretty encouraging so far.
The only thing that's getting to me now is the storyline section - there's a visual joke that I quite like and want people to see, but it's really a direct choice between taking the time to do an entire intro or just putting a quick slide in to explain the story for the demo, and I'm not sure I have the drive (or graphical ability) at the moment to do the whole thing up. We'll have to see about that.
Otherwise, I'm at the stage where I'm comfortable putting little finishing touches in. This is something I like that I wasn't sure I would be able to do, but it turned out to only need a couple of hours' work thanks to PHP's versatility - signature images for player accounts. So you can put an img tag on to a page and link to your account's URL, and have it update as you play through the game - it's all very dynamic and Web 2.0 and... all that. With any luck, you should be able to see it happening here as I test it now.
The only thing that's getting to me now is the storyline section - there's a visual joke that I quite like and want people to see, but it's really a direct choice between taking the time to do an entire intro or just putting a quick slide in to explain the story for the demo, and I'm not sure I have the drive (or graphical ability) at the moment to do the whole thing up. We'll have to see about that.
Otherwise, I'm at the stage where I'm comfortable putting little finishing touches in. This is something I like that I wasn't sure I would be able to do, but it turned out to only need a couple of hours' work thanks to PHP's versatility - signature images for player accounts. So you can put an img tag on to a page and link to your account's URL, and have it update as you play through the game - it's all very dynamic and Web 2.0 and... all that. With any luck, you should be able to see it happening here as I test it now.
