Programmer deprived of sleep - Police suspects blood money is involved

Someone might guess from the title - I've been playing Hitman - Blood Money quite lot lately. It's the 4th game in the Hitman-series and a good step forwards yet again, in terms of graphics and gameplay. It's pretty cool to be able to make your kills look like "accidents" by pushing someone over a ledge for example.

Related to hitmen, you can hire one from here


So there hasn't been anything new in the programming field for these days... Today I continued my project again though. I've implemented building new units now and a menu where you can select the map you want to play, which is rather crude but does it's job.. same goes for pretty much everything, I'll do something about the graphics and such when the functionality is done otherwise :)

Now the task I took on today is updating the map editor to allow placing game objects... Units and structures. To do that, I need to do quite much other work not directly related to the task at hand:
Need to update map-format for object data - Simple, but need to do a parser for that too
Because the objects need to know which side they belong to when they are loaded, I need to change the format even more - Add details of the players involved
As the player details are saved into the map, that info needs to be changeable from the editor.. and also the game itself needs to create the players when loading a map and so on


The end result.. I'm going to make some kind of a Mission data holder class now, which will contain all the small details.. the players, the tile map, the unit data etc... also victory conditions, which I'll probably be adding later as they need something to base the win calculations on.

The editor has to be able to save Missions and the game has to be able to load Missions.


New music. I Love Disco Diamonds Vol. 39 which was released quite recently is awesome... definite recommendation for anyone who likes old synth/disco music.

And to whoever named a crazy hypertechno/eurobeat album "Shibuya Women's Pro-Wrestling Original Soundtrack"... What were you high on? I'm imagining women wrestling to high BPM techno music... @_@