The Magic Pantry

Wow – 20% of the way through the project. Scary stuff.

Tonight I got the first version of the ContextManager up and running. Right now the KranzkyEngine has the following structure:

• KranzkySingleton
• KranzkyEngine < KranzkySingleton
  • Initialise the AirPlay framework
  • Hook into iPhone events
  • Run the main loop
    • Call KranzkyContextManager to update and render
• KranzkyContextManager < KranzkySingleton
  • Manage the list of known KranzkyContext objects
  • Manage the list of currently running KranzkyContext objects
  • Handle overlaying one KranzkyContext on another
  • Handle transitioning from one KranzkyContext to another
• KranzkyContext
  • Handle state transitions (ready -> waiting -> starting -> running -> stopping -> stopped

The “HelloKranzky” sample game looks like this:

• GameContext < KranzkyContext
  • Implement update and render
• HelloKranzky
  • Add the GameContext to the KranzkyEngine
  • Then tell the KranzkyEngine to start at the GameContext
  • Then call Kranzky::Engine::instance()->main()

This is all very cool. The next step will be to implement a bunch of different contexts to represent all of the different states of PostalWorker, and to hook them up to implement the click-through storyboard that I mentioned previously (and which I was hoping to have done by this update). I’ll likely find a few bugs in the implementation so far, as the storyboard will make use of stacked contexts with transitions as they start and stop. But that’s all good!