More owls, as well as a shadowed version of Elli for the darker scenes in-game!

• Today's update will be in lists only
  • lists are cool
  • everyone likes them
  • monday
• I decided to do some world building
  • set the stage for the planet
  • it dictates technology levels and people's philosophies pretty well
  • it plays into the story well also!
• I also started framing the scope of the story
• I'm using the wiki function of bitbucket, which is where my code is as well. It was a bit annoying figuring out how to set up the interlinks, but once I got it working it's fine
• Created a campfire that can be refueled by adding logs to it
• Realized I had interaction with objects in like 3 or 4 places in the code:
  • I started to put them all in the same place, but did not finish
• I thought about working on the ai to get an npc refueling the fire
  • Looking at the json for the npc script, I need to make an editor for the behavior trees.
  • It's just too scary looking
    

Today I tweaked stuff, now I'm gonna be gone for a couple days, /endstreak.

Today was spent fixing multiple nasty bugs. One of them was that at one point of the game population suddenly went from 10 to 2 billion. I also dealt with some performance issues. One of the solutions was slowing the game quite a lot.

Next I'm planning to program AI to decide when to increase the population and how important it should be. :)

Yesterday's update can be found here.
In a case of any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to contact me here or on twitter. ;)
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Now the player gets an idea of where a slime will land once it's up in the air via a little flash on the ground.

Also, the slime makes the screen shake a bit when it lands. (The gif doesn't capture this too well; it happens consistantly in the game.

I've tried some optimizitaion today and I got additional 10 fps on a very resource intensive level. I'll be trying different things in the near future. Cya

Today was my first of a full week devoted to game dev. I worked on adding units, keyboard controlled pointer and selecting.

It went pretty well but I've got some difficult bits to solve tomorrow.

Placeholder art as always.

ive realised that a physics platformer can be very, very boring. i wont be working on it anymore, sorry.