devember 9th — smooth autocentering camera

Thursday, 2015-12-10 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Camera smoothly centers on player position.

Trying to create autofiltering for bordertiles between two kinds, e.g. banks between water and grass tiles, but messed up the logic somewhere, causing a huge mess. Also for way more than one hour, causing past midnight.

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devember 10th — pretty randomness is hard

Thursday, 2015-12-10 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric, #pathfinding

Making randomness look pretty is hard, so I’ll put that on the shelf for now. Started looking at GameKit’s Graph pathfinding classes instead, which is probably more essential than getting sidetracked by making things look pretty. Defining the GridGraph at the IsoTileMap level will probably not work though, as different Actors will have their own unique capabilities to traverse the map. The Actor should probably generate their own GridGraph for their observable vicinity when they need it, and filter the graph with their traversal capabilities.

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devember 8th — randomized maps

Tuesday, 2015-12-08 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric, #opengameart

Refactored lots of tile related stuff, so the tile templates can hold more information than just a texture image name, e.g. the stepHeight for a tile, so we can have tiles that are not perfectly flat, but still be walkable and have actors positioned correctly.

devember 7th — actors walk on top of map tiles

Monday, 2015-12-07 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Refactored movement from Player* to new superclass ActorSpriteNode.

devember 6th

Sunday, 2015-12-06 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Lighting broke yesterday because initialization code was moved into the wrong place. Sigh. Now we have working scene lighting again.