2022-02-20

Cultures of Chaos (day 3)

11:00am

Back into it for the day, down to the last 10ish hours before submission time!

I think I want to tweak the pathfinding algorithm a bit to keep enemies from getting too close to each other.

11:45am

Fixed up the pathfinding algorithm a bit by adding in a proximity-based patrol mechanism. This really improves the feel of the game!

1:00pm

Just returning from a lunchbreak, jumping in.

2:45pm

I set up random health (algae) spawning, and consuming it restores a bit of health. With that piece done, I started jamming on setting up player death, but I just ran into my first use-after-free error, so time to figure that one out...

3:00pm

That was a silly error, my pathfinding algorithm just needed to be updated to check to see if the 'meeba was dead or not. Next up, random enemy spawning.

3:30pm

Just added the background music, oh man this is great.

4:00pm

Starting on roughing in a "start screen"

6:00pm

Okay, I think I'm ready to ship this thing.

7:00pm

I ran into an issue when exporting HTML5 - some of my PNG assets were missing. Reimporting them seems to have solved the issue. The project is now live on itch.io

Cultures of Chaos

7:45pm

Submitted! This was a great experience, I really enjoyed it! At the time of submission there were 775 other folks in the jam, I'm curious to see what the final submission count is.

Mini jam submission

Lessons learned? This was a ton of fun, I'm not sure if there were any noteworthy lessons here, it wasn't too different from my other software projects: you need to be disciplined in your design/implementation. One thing that _was_ surprisingly great was writing code that wasn't going to be released open source. Don't get me wrong, I strongly believe in open source, it is just nice writing code that wasn't public. My rat's nest of code was very cozy.

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