Level Master 2000: screenshot0001

Today I prepared the initial launch of Level Master 2000 at google code: http://code.google.com/p/levelmaster2000/. There are still a lot of features missing, as the project page states:

August 24th, 2010. Commited as is. Consider this more a preview/announcement rather than a real release. A major restructuring will occur within the next months, but anyway – here it is!

Nevertheless, it’s a good feeling finally having it on air and getting some feedback!

I’ll post some more detailed info about this trigger class soon (hopefully this week)!

Level Master 2000 Racing Demo

The weeks before, I was mostly busy with writing the introductional / theoretical background chapters of my thesis. Turned out to be more work than expected…

-static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true

to the additional compiler options. Doing some more in depth research, I discovered that this isn’t neccessary with a newer version of FlashDevelop – and I can confirm: it’s true =)
After the update procedure, everything compiled fine in debug mode. In release mode, it compiled too, but I got a runtime error: “VerifyError: Error #1024: Stack underflow occurred”. Again, investigating this error on the web, I stumbled over http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-2266. The piece of code causing this, looked like so:

conn = new LocalConnection();
conn.client = this;
conn.allowDomain('*');
try {
	conn.connect("_SchemaConnection");
} catch (error:ArgumentError) {
	trace("Can't connect to _SchemaConnection");
}

So as you can see, it’s not the same as in the link above. I started commenting out line by line, and then I discovered, that it was the trace call. Replacing it with a Logger call finally fixed the error:

Logger.print(this, "Can't connect to _SchemaConnection");

I guess we’ll just put that on the unsolved mysteries stack

• Support groups in entity explorer
• Project management (new, save, load)
• Undo/Redo create and deleting entities/components (video to come)

All implemented. For my thesis this means: written a first version of chapter 3: overview of rapid prototyping tools. As posted recently, it’s in German, but I’ll port it over to English as soon as possible!

Next on my todo list is creating undo/redo commands for creating and deleting entities and components. As soon as that’s done, milestone 1 for my thesis is finished!

<Language name="xml"  ext="pbelevel"></Language>

And tada – you’re off to go!

In short, using this component, you can combine, what normally is hard to achieve with Flash: animation with “thousands of buildings on the screen at once“.

Regarding further development: I’m on holidays* the upcoming and parts of the following week. I already got concrete refactoring plans and will post what features are to come after that.

*: Holidays in sense of going snow boarding and working on an old XNA based title we’ve worked on half a year ago, and needs some polishing in order that it can be able to be used in my portfolio. But more info on that when the time has come