I’ve had a half week of ill­ness — not good when there are com­put­erised tests/exams about to go on at work that you’re run­ning (and I for­got about until my wife kindly told me they’re this Thurs­day! For­tu­nately, they’re all ready to go, so I don’t have to stress about that) — and no time to work on CyberRogue.

I took some time yes­ter­day to tweak some of the ren­der­ing code, chang­ing the way it works (using temp vari­ables rather than sta­tic class vari­ables) and intro­duc­ing the con­cept of dirt­i­ness (no more ren­der­ing the whole screen on every pass, just the parts that have changed. I just need to remem­ber to mark them as dirty when mak­ing changes.

I’ve been play­ing Pro­to­type a fair bit, and it’s good fun. For some­one with god­like pow­ers, you do get bat­tered around an awful lot. Mind you, Alex is still “only human” under­neath all that, and while he regen­er­ates quickly, is still kil­l­able. Opin­ion seems to be polarised as far as the game is con­cerned, peo­ple com­plain­ing the boss fights are long, hard and bor­ing, while other say they’re easy as long as you keep mov­ing. I haven’t come across any­thing I haven’t enjoyed (so far), but it’s tak­ing my time away from development.