Week of November 13th
I took a hard left turn this week – new operating system and almost a new language altogether. I then took a soft right turn as I switched back to Love2d but stayed on windows.
Now I’m bearing left slightly, I guess? I don’t know. This analogy is getting away from me, and I’m also incredibly late on posting this up, so I’m going to cut right to the “demo” and move on
Week of November 6th
Well. This wasn’t a great week.
Lots of nonsense happened – from sudden manager departures to a very distracting election and much else beyond that.
I’m calling this a lost week. Not necessarily a bad week, but one in which much of my time was spent not working on my games or my business or really much of anything.
Still, I got quite a bit done. I’m really hopeful that this will be the week I finally get into a flow of sharing my thoughts on here and elsewhere, but it’s been over 5 weeks now of absolute failure so why should this be any different? We’ll see.
+ Sold a camera! +$60 in the escape fund
+ May have found an extra $1,000 just “laying around” – fingers crossed it pans out
+ Added the concept of Power Goals – more to come on that in a later post
+ Added simple dog fetching, simple dog snoozing, and some cool stuff regarding zooming
+ Lots of ideas put to paper and then stored safe and sound in TFS
— Distracting election
— Distracting work
— Distracting housework
— Wore a bad pair of socks 🙁
Man, I got a *ton* done this sprint. Lots of dev work. Lots of porting previous prototypes into a more finalized design. Refactoring. A whole bunch!
Looking ahead, it seems likely that this sudden increased velocity will continue for a time, but can’t last forever. Still, I’m enjoying it while it lasts
+ Added variable tail wagging animations
+ Created entities for dog and bugs
+ Added bugs. Like, flies, not coding bugs
+ Also added coding bugs
+ Then I added way more bugs
+ Implemented state system
+ Implemented new map
+ Basic physics
+ Created entity for human
+ Lots of refactoring!
+ Rudimentary day/night prototyping
I’ll probably mix the format of this up from time to time, especially as I’m still firmly in the “pre-game” of sprint planning. So, let’s do this thing!
Sprint went well. Did a little bit of everything, from coding to design to art to my business itself. As I’ve said twice already these “pre-sprints” are going to be weird and disjointed, but that’s ok because it’s still progress.
+ Made scaling crisper
+ Added portrait to dialog
+ Locked camera to map
+ Implement two additional monsters
+ Generally made the code far worse and hacky and terrible, and everyone hates it
+ Puttered about with TFS
+ Designed several new monsters! See them below
+ Began reading The Art of Game Design
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It’s official: progress continues to be made! These additional stickies are proof.
Still nothing to share in the way of an actual .exe, but here’s a gif of borderline dog abuse
It’s official: progress has been made! These bunch of stickies are proof.
No shareable demo yet, and likely not for awhile, but here’s a GIF of my ‘progress’
An impressive amount of bugs:lines of code, if I do say so myself