{"id":134,"date":"2008-06-28T21:14:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-06-28T21:14:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T03:14:20","slug":"igalcon-pretty-backgrounds-and-lots-of-tweaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/28\/igalcon-pretty-backgrounds-and-lots-of-tweaking\/","title":{"rendered":"iGalcon – pretty backgrounds and lots of tweaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I managed to assemble a few backgrounds by grabbing some great photos from here<\/a>.\u00a0 I also did about 50 million little tweaks to the game, making it “almost done”.\u00a0 (Meaning, there is probably quite a bit of even finer detail work yet, but not as much as their used to be.)<\/p>\n

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This version of Galcon introduces a new 3-way scenario.\u00a0 This scenario the bots continuously choose which player to make a temporary alliance with.\u00a0 They always attack the strongest player other than themselves.<\/p>\n

I also created a new bot that has “redirect” capabilities.\u00a0 I originally worked on doing a fairly complex one that I had done before, but found that it didn’t seem to work.\u00a0 Probably because it was somewhat complex and I was doing something wrong.\u00a0 I took a break and came up with a very simple variation on the fairly simple bot I use for the rest of the game.\u00a0 It works great \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On the iphone specific front, I keep having to deal with gravity every step of the way.\u00a0 I’ve added several other status items on the screen which I always orient with gravity.\u00a0 These items are in the corners of the screen, so I have to temporarily place large planets in those corners during the level generation to ensure that none of the final planets end up obscured by a status icon.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I’ll have it done in time for “launch day” but I hope to be pretty close \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I managed to assemble a few backgrounds by grabbing some great photos from here.\u00a0 I also did about 50 million little tweaks to the game, making it “almost done”.\u00a0 (Meaning, there is probably quite a bit of even finer detail work yet, but not as much as their used to be.) This version of Galcon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galcon","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}