This week was largely spent developing a dirt tileset, the second of the three main tilesets I’ll be using in the first section of the game. It’s not perfect. If you’re used to looking at tiles, the repetition in the…
This week I developed a very simple but powerful addition to the tile editor: Channel toggles. Each tile in a level holds three values, the collision shape of the tile, the graphics bank to draw from, and the index of…
This week was mostly just working on the grass tileset, small tweaks to make the transitions seamless, big tweaks to give more of a sense of light and atmosphere. While I had directional lighting in mind a bit with the…
This time last week I was adding detail to areas, trying to build out something that felt kind of finished and polished. This week I found out why you don’t want to do that until you’re working with at least…
It’s weird how quickly time passes when I’m working on these levels. In some ways it’s hard work, and I often feel quite tired afterwards, but in the moment the hard work is effortless, an endless series of tiny changes…
This week I decided that my game levels needed to have a background layer as well as the normal front tile layer I’ve been using. This solves a couple of problems: First, it lets me add a lot more detail…
The bulk of this week was taken up by completely overhauling the game’s tile system. I’ve created a new template for all future tilesets: Because this is standardized, I’ve updated the in-game collision data to match the template, which means…
After a bit more programming work, I’ve finally got the core game to a point where I can spend some quality time actually building content. In this case, I’ve been working on building the first areas of the game. Actually,…
Well I just spent a week getting something I had working before working again. I’m sure this is a common programmer experience but still: Goddammit. The good news is, I guess, that the code is more elegant and straightforward, rescalable…
Something I’ve noticed: While I was working on the final mastering phases of my album, even though it was a lot of work of a sort, it was also a section of the day where I had nothing else to…
