Some things good some things bad.

Camera movement kind of how I want it.

More problems arise from software limitations.

Working on player color changing based on ability equipped.

Begun blocking out demo level.

Talked to a cool guy music guy.

Added two more new enemies to the to do pile.

Read a book.

Still needs additional animation, but it functions.

It's still buggy when you throw it out while facing the inside of a corner.

I just need to edit the player's animation color per-weapon and I think I'll have no more excuses to not prototype levels other than designing a boss fight.

(For the Player:) I'm rapidly finding less things to do for non-art based player systems. I'm almost done give or take. The only consideration left is tuning the numbers if I decide to change the player's size or appearance in relation to the world and enemy size.

Better than boxes.

Oops. When I started this blog I wanted to push for one update every two to three days minimum, and now it's been five days since the last post.

This week has been very busy with college work, and any free time that I got to work on the game, I'd rather spend it just doing that; working on the game. I started losing motivation for updating this. I still have a slew of new features to show off; but when I get annoyed trying to make a .gif image to properly capture something, sometimes I give up. My apologies.

I worked on the 7th ability a bit, and there's only one issue with it left to squash. 

Also begun the great transition from blocks to sprites with actual forms. 

I guess you could say... I hit the ground running.

Back on track

It's late and I'm tired. This still very much feels like two days after the last post, even though it's three hours past that.

Progress has been made. The bug is squished, the advanced enemy is almost ready to be shown off, and what may be the final two abilities are going to be started on.

Boring words update #1

Hello again. I want to do my best to post any kind of update at the minimum of every two days. Sometimes this means that I won't be able to attach a flashy .gif image of a cool new thing, as much as I'd like to.

In development of the new enemy type, I've discovered that some untraceable mistake is affecting the system at which enemies mirror their sprites to face the player. I've tested this extensively and found out that it affects anything that doesn't have a certain behavior, not just the advanced enemy that I was working on. This is a pretty significant bug, and the cause as to why trying to make that enemy was not ending in success.

This means I have to do something very annoying. I am not scrapping everything and starting over. It's not that bad, however, I do have to save all sound and art assets, write down all important number settings, transfer everything to a blank slate, and do extreme break-testing after I redo all of the event placement. This will probably take about a day in me-time, and that's really going to suck.

AAAAAAAAAAAAA- (cont.)

-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

CLOSE, BUT NOT QUITE THE INTENDED RESULT.

I've been legitimately trying to get this asshole to work properly for the last two days. It's so close to working how it's supposed to (Homing at the player's position without having shit gravity strain screwing with the positional aiming, and not sliding to the right when done for some reason?) but I need to take a break.

Blink Update

I've begun working on that advanced enemy I was talking about earlier. Let's just say... it's not ready to be shown, putting it lightly.

Out of my frustrations with that, I added another basic ability. Check it.

*Blink*

I've also returned to college for this semester. Boo. I'll try my best to not let that slow me down.