Week, er, 21 -- More more TGB

Wow, I totally forgot to blog last week. Huh.

The last two weeks, I studied behaviors and tile maps, which both look like they'll be extremely useful. Behaviors let you conveniently attach a set of properties and callback handlers to any scene object. The main benefit seems to be the callbacks. The behavior namespace can implement lots of the normal scene object callbacks, so you can have a bunch of different handler functions all getting called, one for each behavior and one for the object itself. The upshot is kind of like multiple inheritance.

Tile maps are for creating levels that are built of lots of repeating grid squares (think Mario or any other older game). Just got started with them, but they already look very useful. You can assign various properties to each tile beyond just the image, which has interesting possibilities.

Anyhow, these last two weeks were good in that I felt that my TGB study was actually worth the delay. But it's high time to start putting the actual game together. Tile maps are the last main feature I wanted to study, so I'll study a few miscellaneous classes briefly and then get on with the main project.