Rex-tacular

What a difference a mere week can make in terms of progress. At the beginning of last week only the basic background from one scene was showing, although there was more code implemented in the engine that wasn't yet working. Now, a week later, behold the progress of Rex Nebular on ScummVM:

That's right, in a rush of effort this week, the Rex Nebular engine has already passed several milestones in development:

• The user interface is now partly implemented. As you can see from the above picture, the user interface background is showing, with the sections for the actions, items, and the animated inventory item showing.
• The scene background is now displaying, along with basic sprite animations within the scene. The fires are burning, and the hamster "auxiliary power" :) is running.
• Basic player display. Rex is in his default position for the scene, facing the door.
• Behind the scenes, we've already completed the logic for a couple of the game scenes, although we're obviously not able to test them properly yet.

The focus for the upcoming week will now be on the beginnings of user interaction and action handling. This means getting walking working, selections in the user interface, and actually being able to execute actions. A lot of the needed code is already in place, but will require some heavy duty debugging and comparison against the original to figure out where things are going wrong. We're somewhat hampered by the complexity of the core engine when doing debugging, but we'll get there eventually. :)