Little trailer

Little Trailer

Some little news about potions, now Kid can drink and restore energy and some little fix

Sword and ..

Sword and ..

I have finish today the sword animation, kid now have a weapon for attack the sultan's guards

Next step sultan's swing...

Some little fix :

-> mask routine fixed

Mask sprite under background

Mask sprite under background

I'm study how to mask (hide) Kid when pass behind a pillar or climb from under the floor, i have see some documentation about "Alpha Mapping and pixel shader" bur its a little complicated for me now.

I have adopt another "simple" solution, draw the mask in front of the background after draw sprites, is simple but not elegant.

DRAW ORDER

-> background animation

-> sprites

-> foreground mask

Kid behind a pillar

Example of mask "pillar"

Background

Foreground

Life and Energy

Life and Energy

I spent a few days to implement PoP.net on Android, but I think there are some problems related to some bug and my little knowledge of the system.

Now I have stopped the Android porting. 

(the Xamarin is very slow debug! i will wait the next release ...)

I went back to develop the Windows version, i have Implemented the death and LifePoints energy, now Kid can die and resort in the "Starting" point with full (default) life energy.

I must develop the "falling life point decrease routine" , for now i have refreshed the compiled downloadable version from codeplex.

Monogame and Android

Monogame and Android

Now i start to develop the porting of PoP.net in android emulator...

Monogame

Monogame

I finish to port PoP.net into the Monogame framework, this permit an easy (mhh) conversion to IOS (mac of course), ANDROID and LINUX, WINDOWPHONE, XBOX stay tuned i will test this conversion...

Another implementation is to move the "Resources" into the Content, now everyone can modify :

• Animation (sprite, background and effect like jump etc)
• Sprite
• Background
• Levels and Rooms

Simply open the XML files and modify with notepad, follow the little documentation around past blogs.

Repository refreshed and compiled the binary also, FINALLY !  

XNA vs MONOGAME

XNA vs MONOGAME

I'm really disappointed, since I discovered that Microsoft XNA will not update for hidden version of Windows 8 at this point I'm considering switching to another framework
PrinceOfPersia.net will be switch to monogame that inherits and continues the development of XNA.

Next days i will spend to port the PoP.net into Monogame