Dev news #2

Summary of my work on the Far Seed game over the last two weeks - new level, design, and tutorials.

Freedom to sockets!

The majority of visual scripting instruments gives freedom to nodes movements, while sockets, attached to nodes, continue to be fixed. I've decided to lay end to such discrimination and free sockets, at least partially.

Making door opening in Far Seed

Visual Styles of Visual Scripts

When dealing with visual programming visual side is as important as the programming one. It often happens that as a script becomes more complex graphical representation turns into a total mess of graphical elements disctracting user’s attention from understanding the script. One of the ways to avoid such situation is to show user all he needs to see now, not all in all.