Project Dooley version 0.9

Project Dooley has reached a release version. I’ve termed it version 0.9. That is to say the game is fully functional and playable. And things should work smoothly and in reasonable amounts of time.

I’m giving it a 0.9 version instead of the full-fledged 1.0 because I want to add more content to the game. I’m going to get more images (puzzles) in the game and give the user the ability to select how many tiles to separate the puzzle into.

As I get those choices added and presented to the user, I will also be working on an XBox 360 port of the game. Hopefully that will be a pedestrian matter, but we’ll see, we. will. see.

Controls for the game are the arrow keys on the keyboard to slide tiles around and press the enter key to show or hide the numbers overlaying the tiles.

If you try the game, please don’t hesitate to leave me comments about its functioning and features.. I am open to working in some more features while I am adding the customizable aspects.

The Games section is your key to happiness (or access to download Project Dooley.. whichever happens).

Project Dooley: Iteration 2

Iteration 2 of Project Dooley is in the books. It was a less productive iteration that I would have liked, but the game has definitely progressed.

The game shuffles the tiles by making numerous random moves. And the game is able to test for being complete. Those pieces of code were written and well tested during this iteration. There was also a little aesthetic tweaking during this iteration. I drew the “game board” and it took some tweaking to get it to the point that where I felt like it looked and fit seamlessly.

Iteration 3 will focus on providing a visual guide for the player and allowing the player to make moves. At this point, I’m taking my first guess at a date for a fully playable version that just needs tweaks to be completed. The guess I’m going with is the end of iteration 4. December 31 is the solid date I’m gonna put on it. We’ll see how things progress and if that comes to fruition.