Snow

Every time I start working on Snow after a few weeks pause, I find that something does not work and needs to be fixed before I can continue working.

What is Snow?

I really wished I knew the answer to that. I started the project after I cancelled another one, which was written in plain C and a mess. Snow is written completely in Objective-C, based on Cocoa. Physics are provided by Newton. It’s got something to do with Snow. That’s all I know.<

The goal of the game is to drive around with a snowcat until you get boring. There ought to be a race mode somewhere down there, but it’s a really long time since I last tried that out.

I used to say that Snow is a real game, not just some kind of “engine”. Turns out I was wrong. Snow is not a game, but it’s not an engine either. At best, it is some kind of tech demo, a very bloated one. It has snowcats that either drive unrealistically or not at all, railroads that cannot do curves, weather effects that cause the whole screen to blink and so on.

It would be really cool if I went through the code and fixed everything that was buggy or unfinished. But that is no fun, compared to adding more unfinished features. So Snow keeps getting larger and more buggy. I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it. It’s not development with the aim of releasing the software, it’s mainly research for me nowadays.

In fact, I’ve stopped working on Snow now. Many ideas, but hardly any direct code, continue to live in Hubschrauber, which has now taken the role of my research project. It’s a much better one, with cleaner code and the like. If I ever go back to Snow, I’ll replace lots (most?) of the code with new code from Hubschrauber.

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