Sweating the details: Boxer Development Diary

Developer diary: plans and progress reports.

The titlebar shows the name and icon of the game package you’re playing, and it has the usual drop-down menu from the icon;
If your game package has a custom icon, this is used as the dock icon instead of Boxer’s standard application icon;
The statusbar is hideable, if you don’t want the clutter—and this is remembered for next time, fancy that;
The mouselock indicator pushes in with a little -snick- sound to turn on mouse locking.

Beta soon, I promise.

Hah, I almost enjoy seeing you sweat the details as much as I enjoy Boxer itself. =) Great work!

Martin Thursday 12th February 2009
That is really good :) When we will be able to download it?

Mansour Saturday 14th February 2009
Once I finish breaking everything and putting it back together; at the moment it’s all lying around in pieces while I perfect my armed hijacking of SDL’s window-management code. The other problem I need to tackle before a beta will be available is getting it to compile for PowerPC—it seems I've somehow introduced an audio bug and have no immediate way of testing on PPC to fix it.

I have a feeling this will be another very long beta cycle, and I may need to fork Boxer publicly into release and development versions, which I was hoping to avoid. I don’t think I'll get enough testing coverage for the beta otherwise.

Alun Bestor Sunday 15th February 2009
Happy to be a PPC beta tester, just let me know :)

Henni Monday 16th February 2009