DevLog

Hey. It’s been awhile since I’ve done any math-intensive apps, and I was starting to get a little nervous about “losing my touch”. Not to mention, all I’ve worked on for the past several months is Chase, and the last thing I want is for me to get bored of it. So I something different, and programmed a real quick application of some random effect. I like rotating things in isometric space (who doesn’t?), and always thought that it’d be neat to do some sort of depth-of-view thing, so I threw this together.

I’ll probably release the source tomorrow (assuming I have time), after optimizing and making it a bit easier to read. Don’t forget that I have other apps you can watch and get briefly entertained by here, if you’re ever bored.

There’s officially been about a week’s worth of development for Chase.

Today, however, was admittedly disappointing in terms of progress. I started working on a quick reference, since the code was getting more and more complex, and keeping track of parameters for each function was difficult. This would be especially useful, since I’m developing Chase over a long time (up to a week or two between development days). The quick reference, however, wasn’t so quick. It ended up taking me longer to document the different functions than it did for me to actually make some of the functions, so I decided that it was a waste of time, and to ditch it. If it’s getting difficult for me to keep track of things, then it’s probably time for me to re-organize and clean up the code a bit.

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