Finite Improbability

Not a terribly productive day yesterday. Initiated a darcs repo and copied over a bit of generic stuff from my big game’s codebase. Spent a good deal of time futzing around with trying to get a rectangle (org.newdawn.slick.geom.Rectangle) to rotate the way I wanted it to. After doing a bunch of fire and pray changes I decided to look at the wiki and found that drawing any of the geometry classes isn’t particularly efficient, which throws them right out even for prototyping since I will have lots and lots. Have created a simple yellow triangle that can pretend to be an ant while I do testing.

Spent a while trying to understand Scala actors and see how they would fit in this context. My current idea is to have the ants, food objects, and beacons all represented as actors with non-actor methods to handle game loop interaction. Theoretically game updates and rendering could be handled as actors as well, maybe this is a good way to do this, I’m just worried about the overhead. I guess I could always switch later if needed.