Urk

The Tetris-clone is proving to be harder to write than I thought it would be. Not hard as in "I can't write this" but hard as in "gosh this is getting boring, I want to move on to something else". I've got two shapes fully implemented, and almost got a third done, but there's still another four to go.

It hasn't help that I've been very busy with non-gamedev (indeed, non-computer) related stuff, so it's been hard to get to the computer at home. I've been keeping the most current version on my laptop as well, in case I get an opportunity to work on it during my breaks, but even then I keep getting interrupted (I know, I shouldn't have tea breaks and lunch at my desk...).

Aargh. Just going to have to force myself to get it done!

Yay!

Pong is done (and only in a couple of hours)! Next project: Tetris-clone!

It's actually a relief to have finished a project, even one as small as this. Gives me the confidence to tackle something larger.

First steps

I've gotten tired of falling over because I've tried to run before I can crawl. All my high-falutin' ideas have been put on the backburner while I return to the basics. And you can't get more basic than Pong.

So far, after around an hour's work in Visual C# and Paint, I've got a ball bouncing around a playing field, with a bat the player can control and a bat the computer controls.