Day 1: I created the main class without putting anything in it. And I added JOGL to my project. I plan to add graphics after the jam is over, so I might as well start with JOGL now.
Day 2: I drew a polygon in a window. The polygon won't appear in the actual game, but I had to have something to test.
Day 3: Ah, I have text on the screen. But it gets screwed up when I change the size of the window. And I can't resize the window normally.
Maybe tomorrow I'll start the actual content of the game.
Day 4: I switched to LWJGL because there's no good JOGL tutorials.
Day 5: In my limited time, I continued working through the LWJGL tutorial.
Day 6: My god. It's been so long. Apparently, I have to jump through some hoops to put text on the screen. Why did I ever use JOGL or LWJGL for this? I guess I have to figure it out now.
At this point, I have to stop for carpal tunnel syndrome.
So I'm going to drop out of the jam. It was inevitable. I shouldn't have tried to use JOGL or LWJGL for this. I should have just used Swing. I already knew better, and I already did it anyways.
Still, I'm calling this a success because I made so much progress with LWJGL. I think I'm going to finish the tutorial I've been doing (when I have time). Then, I'll try another game jam.
It might be possible. I have other things that I have to do that I haven't been doing because I was messing around with JOGL and LWJGL.
If I can get enough work done today, I should be able to work on something tomorrow night. My plan for the jam was to experiment with a combat system. I may be able to do just that without having much other content.
It may not be the best use of my time, but it's worth a try. I really have to start finishing stuff.
