Been an interesting but unfortunately brief afternoon of physics coding. I often have tight deadlines with my work and client stuff has to take priority (it’s my primary source of income), so opportunities to work on games is few and far between right now. However, I am far more focused when the opportunity arises, which happens to be most of my lunch breaks and evenings.

Today was spent implementing the beginning of what will become a core game mechanic. It’s a fundamental piece of physics code, to say i’m rusty with maths was an understatement and something I quickly realised. I spent quite a bit of time reading up on the implementation and formulae and hacking away until I got something working. It’s by no means perfect right now, but it’s working and it’s something I can now start refactoring and refining. It’s a relatively small piece of code, but it feels good to get this little milestone done. There is still an extremely long way to go on the overall game, but this was frustrating chunk that is now out of the way (minus the refactor!).

Playing with some new tools today which should make the porting to other platforms a lot shorter. This always works great in theory, but I won’t know just how painful until that time eventually comes. The plan is for release on the Windows, Mac OSX, iPhone and iPad. I’m developing on a Macbook Pro, using TextMate for writing code if anyone is interested