Hey everyone, Figured it was about time for my monthly update again! I have some excellent news to deliver this time around, the game has been converted to use Hardware Acceleration (here on out referred to as HWA mode), versus just the standard mode of Multimedia Fusion. What this means for those of you who may have never used MMF, is that it will use the video card for display updates, instead of the system memory!
So far its been a very trying task but the results are fantastic, and really bring the game up to where I’m pleased with the results and proud of the project as a whole. There are some final tweaks and tests but I should be releasing an Alpha of the world test to my testing group soon (For real this time!), while I get into reprogramming the AI for the monsters, to work with the new HWA based menus and whatnot.
Needless to say the game is still coming along epic-ly! I hope for a release sometime this year, but I’m not promising anything yet. I’ll be pulling the ‘Blizzard’ stance on it for now. It’ll be done when its done!
-Chaos