Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Syntax highlighting for Lua in Xcode

It is possible! You only need to copy two files in the correct directory:
LuaXcode3SyntaxColor.zip

(found at Capgo's website via lua-users.org)

Update: after installing this, Xcode started crashing regularly, and at one point I couldn't even send the game to the emulator anymore => I removed the files.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

PewPew, step 9


Added:
-Lightning on the main menu
-3D cube transition between the menus/screens
-"About" screen
-Pretty joysticks
-A new mode (shown at the end) that totally rocks
-Scores
-Menu to display scores and launch replays
-Hashes to verify the integrity of the scores
-Preferences
-An in-game menu
-Lower case characters
-Scrolling background that can change color.
-Music
-A rotating camera when watching replays

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