Unifying Theory

I’m putting some time on this project again and came to a few realizations.

First, it sucks to return to a project and forget what state you left everything in.

Second, just bumping up the resolution isn’t a solution for putting a high resolution version.  Why?  The math keeps breaking on some of the textures.  I have not dug into it closely yet, but textures are doing some weird things.  I could probably fix it or …

Third, going OpenGL was still my goal.  This is still the best plan for a version.  I got fairly far with it, so I should just finish it out.  Sure, I played around some other aspects (namely high resolution color), but OpenGL fixes much of the above math problems and still gives fixes other problems (such as looking up/down, color resolution, hardware acceleration, etc.).

But there is still one other option — port to Unity.  Originally I had dismissed doing so, but recently I played around with it and see now that that might actually be more of an option than I thought.  I don’t have a real idea if converting between C and C# is really all that feasible, not to mention the possibly weird requirements of Unity, but who knows, maybe it would lead to a version for your Android tablet or iPhone?  But at some level, it may just be effectively rewriting the game, and one might as well make A&A 2.  A sequel to the game that never was?

Song of the Day:  Pilgrimage from Conjure One