devember 4th

Saturday, 2015-12-05 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Support for layered sprites on base tiles, for dynamic objects being displayed on top of floor tiles. Click to teleport player sprite to a tile.

Coding while drunk is hard.

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devember 5th

Saturday, 2015-12-05 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Coding on the train today. WASD movement and simple dynamic lighting. For some reason lighting broke when making more sane spritenode tree structure.

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devember 3rd

Thursday, 2015-12-03 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Isometric coordinate transforms between tile grid positions and screen space sorted out. We can now display a z-sorted grid of floor tiles on screen, and pick tiles in the grid via screen coordinates.

devember 2nd

Wednesday, 2015-12-02 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Restructured most code from yesterday. Primitive tilemap setup.

devember 1st

Tuesday, 2015-12-01 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #roguelike, #isometric

This will be an isometric roguelike game, so first thing out should be looking for existing IsoTileMap toolkits; but hey — this is an Hour of Code, so why not start from scratch. Almost: I’ll build on SpriteKit (and GameplayKit when we get that far).