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Alpha Week…

April 23,2009 7:30 am 3 comments

We had “Art-lock” yesterday, which means no new art going into this first version for the iPhone.  We’ve had “design-lock” last week, where all controls, layout and all that fun stuff got locked down.  No more new stuff.  Now it’s just iterating on all current stubbed art and programming.

The Menu systems are looking great, with all functionality in them.  The Strategy board works well with the controls we’ve implemented…which will default to a virtual D-pad, but the Accelerometer will work as well.  We had a bunch of problems with the touch screen input on the Strategy board, with the iPhone trying to recognize what the user is trying to do…pinch to zoom in, select a character, swipe pan…but we’ve got those issues nailed down and it really plays nicely.

Finally, I’m really happy with the control scheme.  The combat board plays quite well.  Martin came up with a bunch of tricks to make it fast and fun, which includes some AI to help the player out (which you hard-core fans can turn off.)  All in all, it’s shaping up to be a really fun game.  We’re concentrating the rest of this week to put the finishing touches on programming, then spend the next week bug testing.  Hopefully, if there’s not too many bugs or things that go wrong, we’ll release this initial version the first part of May.

I’ll upload some screen shots as soon as I’m able to get to them.