Success, Success

I am very happy with myself. After looking online for a very long time, running through forums and websites and shit, I have determined that my game is pretty damned good. I also "fixed" it again. Remember all that crap I gave myself about making the character turn in place? Well, I ended up setting the direction, and then starting the move thread, and finally adding a slight pause to the thread. That pause gave the computer a chance to ascertain whether or not the key was still being held down. So very quick taps gave a turn in place reaction (just like the actual game). Well, I realized that this pause (30 milliseconds) was actually showing up in the game, giving my animation a very slightly noticeable hiccup every half second or so. You would have to be paying attention to spot it, but it was there, it was responsible for part of the perceived crappy animation, and it was getting on my nerves.

So what I did was change the location of the small pause. I made it only register if the direction was not set. So when the direction was set (like after you had finished turning in the direction, and either held the button, or went to tap it again), the pause no longer occurred. This led to some smoother animation, and a happier me.

I now have the player done (for the moment). I still need to shift more of the code to the player class, but that will come later. I'd say, as far as the entire game is done, I am now somewhere around 1/200 - 2/100 done. For those of you more idiotic than a fifth grader, that's 1/200 - 2/200. Not much. Some of it will be easier, though, so I am alright. Art and music will be death; I may have to find someone else to help me with them.

Later, peoples, I'ma gonna find something else to do (programming-wise).

Hey Justin.