4-Oct-12. Just More Happy Hacking

So after a bit of a hiatus I have restarted work on a smaller game. It is a word search game. Yes lots of them exist and I won't be adding much to the genre. I am treating it as a learning exercise, well an exercise in trying to apply some polish and had a distinct style. You know art stuff that I am not good at.

Actually it is also an excuse to write some UI components. I could just use the whole scene 2D stuff from libgdx but I just felt the desire to pull together my own simple UI components.

If you look at it logically I should not recreate something that already exists. I was however languishing around trying to decide what to develop next but nothing was pulling me in, I was suffering lack of motivation. Writing a UI layer appealed to my brain so I decided to give it shot. The idea is I will create the few UI components need to create a word search game.

After that putting the game together should be pretty simple and I plan to have a bit of a polish phase as mentioned earlier. I am going for a bit of black theme so it definitely will not appeal to my other half.

I am happily hacking away on this.

I am also happily learning a bit more clojure. Nothing too intense but the language does seem to be slowly going into my brain. Hacking clojure with Emacs is also fun.