[Magicor-devel] Quality Assurance.

[Peter G. <pe...@us...>]

Hi all!

I've been quite busy, so not much action on the 1.1 rc1 yet. I spent some 
hours trying to come up with some new tunes, but I'll do what Claudio 
suggested and try to get some real musician to make really good OGG's for 
the game. This is important, in-game music brings a lot of the feel to the 
game, so it's worth waiting for.

I will continue to fix the graphics, especially tiles and backgrounds. I 
don't like mixing photograph realistic images with the cartoonish 
animations, so I'll try to bring the graphics to a more cartoon-like state.
Again, this is very time consuming since I'm not really a 2D graphic artist.
Unfortunately, getting 2D artists is quite difficult, so we'll just have to 
stick with the crap I produce for now.

This is all part of my plan to get some quality assurance into the game 
devel cycle. As such, I will remove all levels that are unfinished, broken 
or just doesn't look good enough. Some of the levels are -excellent-, I will 
keep those and discard the rest for the release. I'd rather have only a 
handful of really good levels than a whole bunch of mediocre ones.

On another note, I'm now starting a new game project which is based on 
PyGame and PyOpenGL. I'm currently writing the sprite library to handle 
animations, collisions, etc, it will consume more of the time that I already 
don't have. :) So, if I seem lazy/slow it's because I am, hehe.

Just wanted you to know that I am still alive. :)

/Peter