Time for the weekly update!
Pathfinding!
Lots of new functionality got put in this week. The biggest of which is clearly the pathfinding which.. in all honestly was a pain in the butt but has been rock steady since I got it working. The map on the other hand.. I must have re-re-rewritten chunks of the rendering for it so many times these last few days. That and tile picking (still a wip) have both turned out to be deceptively huge pains in the ass. The primary cause is that the world coordinate system and visible coordinate system and the map tile grid are all different and finding out what correlates to everything else is a pain.
Luckily I seem to have it mostly sorted out for now. Well except the map renderer… that’s currently working on a sheer brute force approach, so I’ll have to limit the map sizes in the Jan build.
Other notable features
- Select creatures (indicated by yellow glow)
- Buy new creatures by clicking gold wolf button in the lower left.
- Track, gold, stage and Dragon Egg’s health
- 2 Monsters (goblin and Orc) and they can move about.
- Monsters can be equipped with better weapons and armor.
er they say a picture is worth a thousand words so here’s an annotated screenshot.
Oh and here’s a couple of runnable Builds:
Windows Pc EXE > Here
Everyone Runnable Jar > Here
Android…er.. it runs on my devices… however Im having issues getting the deployed APK file to work :-/
{Basic Instructions}
Click on stuff. There’s no real gameplay yet.
Right Click and Drag to pull the map around.
Let me know if it works
Next:
The rest of the weekend will probably not be nearly as productive :-/
However next up. Invaders! Collisions! Combat! Death!
But it’s gonna be close to see if I can get a functional game done by the end of the month.
Can’t say how much fun it will be.
