Category: Programming

UPDATE: The Menus Are Straight Fire

Let me just say that it has been a great time to be working on Project Oriana and have the name Sydney. Because it has been. You may or not be aware that I am the one in charge of all of the menus for the game. And man, oh man have they been an undertaking of epic proportion. After weeks and weeks of struggling and making little progress, all of the little pieces and scripts are coming together into a beautiful set of menus that I am genuinely so proud of. There are floating elements, there are rotations, there are particle systems, there are smooth transitions. These menus are straight fire. I’m so hyped and I wanted to post here while this fire is still running through my veins. So, this is me trying to communicate my enthusiasm for the work being done on the menus and how things are coming together. I’m seriously so hyped and I needed to share with the world. That’s all for now, just know that things are coming together and it was the breathe of fresh air that I needed from this project.

 

Sydney

Menu Nightmare

Having a quick break from some intense coding to bring you an update about how my tasks are going lately: To be honest, I don’t know if I have ever been so frustrated as a programmer as I have been since  I started working on the main menu and branching menus. The animations for the main menu look phenomenal. Seriously, they really look fantastic for a first pass through the assets and a first attempt on my part at creating a menu. But then there is the settings menu. And the transition to it. I have spent the longest time trying to figure out how the script is perfectly capable of loading the main menu, but refuses to do the transition to the options menu. So that is what this week has been for me, frustration and staring at the same bit of code for hours and hours on end. I guess there is something to be said for perseverance, right? I’m still pushing through, but know there is progress being made and that is how I have been spending my time this past week.

Sydney