devember 16th — smooth perlin noise

Wednesday, 2015-12-16 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Now using perlin noise for smoother random terrain map generation. Need better height map textures.

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devember 17th — smooth actor movement

Thursday, 2015-12-17 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Actors will now move smoothly in the X-Y plane, and will find their own paths using the A* path finder. Also been playing a bit with ambient light cycles so there will be day and night, and longer cycles for seasonal variation of the day/night cycle.

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devember 15th — working A*

Tuesday, 2015-12-15 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric, #pathfinding

Working A*, and decaying debug highlight of search area and best path to selected target tile. TileMap provides the optimistic path cost heuristic, and Actor provides costOfStep between nodes.

devember 14th — brave attempt at A*

Monday, 2015-12-14 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

A possibly completely broken attempt at A, and it took hours — not *an hour.

devember 13th — pathfinding

Sunday, 2015-12-13 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

I’m a bad bad slacker person, and didn’t keep my daily hour of code promise for two consecutive days. I did however read a bit on using Perlin Noise for prettier randomness, so that’ll be a thing when I have my pathfinding sorted.