A good evening at the Rainbow Arts Evening last night, nice to see a relatively large crowd of 20 or 30 people. The evening was divided into three sections. Alice Smith opened the performances, followed by poetry by Carol Finch, Ian Parr and Steve, actor and magician, also known as Jax Dramagic. In part two, we saw some close-up magic from Jax, a poetry reading from a newcomer, Nicholas Ferenczy, and finally Alice Smith with an engaging personal poetic monologue and dance. Deborah Edgeley read two poems and a short story in the third part, all linked to war-time experiences by her mother in Germany. I ended the night with the only music of the night, a 15-minute performance of The Spiral Staircase as planned. This performance had more freedom than the previous three performances of my electronic music, as I now had some live control over the pre-recorded sections, so I could improvise live sections of the music and trigger those as needed. I included a few lights which dramatically improved the overall look.
Have spent today making changes to Future Snooker and Future Pool. I've added the aiming guide to Future Pool, which is more useful int the snooker game, yet I suspect people would want the same thing in both and it's not difficult to add. I've also fixed a couple of minor bugs in the menu system; pressing Esc from the Main menu will not quite the program now (it was a bit too easy to exit completely by accident), and an old bug in Future Snooker where pressing Esc during the tutorial windows would instantly escape to the Main Menu.
I've also tweaked the aiming angle control, accelerating this rather than moving it big steps, which gives a much finer and accurate control. The game needs, at least, this professional option, allowing the best precision possible during aiming. These games could truly be tournament sports.
More game testing, then to move on to music.
