devember 20th — curious and cowardly mobs

Sunday, 2015-12-20 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Autonomous mobs can roam the lands, and become curious or scared of the player. Perhaps even aggressive, in a near future?

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devember 21st — actors are xenophobes

Monday, 2015-12-21 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

An actor that tries to step into a tile where an actor of a different class resides, will attack instead of moving. Actors will remember the last aggressor and (autonomous actors) will try hunt them down.

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devember 19th — clutter on maps

Saturday, 2015-12-19 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Map tile classes can now cause random clutter to appear on them, like trees.

devember 18th

Friday, 2015-12-18 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Screen to tile coordinate transform when tiles have different visible height gets complicated.

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.