Hello people,
here at Overloaded we are in a difficult situation. At one side we need to make deadlines and finish stuff, on the other side we want to create the best PocketPC library out there. This results in sacrifices in both design and code-quality, simply because we don't have time.
Now that I've finished a game I've been working on, Jacco is giving me a bit of time to do some cleanups on the libraries.
First of all I am going to address the memory leaks (pun intended). I've already found a few using a heap-agent, but I'll be crushing the rest over this weekend. After that I'm going to search for hardcoded stuff and make it more flexible (i.e. the IniFile implementation).
Once that is done, I'll be needing your help to work on three things....
1. Change the FrameGame statemachine mechanism to be more flexible.
2. Think about and discuss the current instantiation and location mechanism of DLLs, Assets, interfaces, etc.
3. Do a major revision of all interfaces.
I'll be working on a little document with some proposals the next few hours, and post a link to it in here once it's done. In the meanwhile please let me know any suggestions and critics from your side. I'm sure a lot is wrong with the curent libraries, but we need feedback from you.
Post here, discuss on ICQ (19637432) or MSN (s9801758@hotmail.com), or email on J.Suter@student.utwente.nl
I also would like to hear whether or not major interface revisions/cleanups would complicate your own current development process. For example, if we would change the FrameGame mechanism, you might have to rewrite some of your own code, right? What's your take on this, considering it would result in a more flexible and elegant system in the future?
Thanks,
Jape
