We have added a new section titled "Artist's Easel"! This is a section done by our lead artist, showcasing what he is currently working on.
Overall progress for the Loradon 3.0 Preview has reached 69%!
www.ifthensoftware.net/loradon_online/progress/
From the Programmer
Written by Invisible
I have ran into a problem with AABB-circle collision detection (again). Because the right and bottom edges of an AABB do not enclose the entire pixel they reside in (and only reside on the very left/top edge of the pixel), a circle that is partially inside of the pixel will not be pushed back like it should be. The problem is demonstrated in the following image:
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Thanks to Webby and the rest of the people that discussed the problem with me in the #gamedev IRC channel on AfterNet, I think I have a solution. Extend the circle's movement vector by 1 pixel, which should register a collision even if the circle does not come into contact with the "real" edge of the AABB. However, it's not quite as easy as it sounds since the circle is now able to move inside of an AABB at certain positions. Hopefully this issue won't be too troublesome to fix.
As you can probably guess from the problems I described earlier, there is no dev demo report in this issue. Sorry about that. Unfortunately, the way things are going now, I wouldn't expect a dev demo report for about 2 weeks.
Artist's Easel
Written by GreyKnight
This will be the background of the character creation screen. In each newsletter issue, I will post an updated version of it. Hopefully this will be interesting!
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Drawn with:
A sheet of 11"x14" Bristol paper
4B and HB mechanical pencils
Community Spotlight
Written by pifreak
April fools was interesting. The forums and IRC had normal words added to the swearing filter, but rather than blocked, they were changed to a funny word. This post would have looked something like: "Foot'm bouncingball yay! Foot'm SAO moderator pie eater, when the rubber forum is a jacked-up yay! :O?yay!"
As for the community this week, CraterZ has sadly left. It is depressing to see such a great member who has defended the alpha-staged game from noob-comments as a better game is promised in the future. Sadly SAO has not gone very far although it could have become great by now. One of the top few clans on the SAO forums, the "Bandits", is now controlled by Eeevil. I wish him good luck so our community doesn't fall apart more than it already is :(
Hopefully "Loradon 3.0" will be good, and I hope it is worth the wait and lack of updates for Stick Adventures Online. The percentage is going slowly up, and it is getting really hard to wait. I think we all want it to come soon.
