devember 25th — brain and body

Friday, 2015-12-25 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Actor behaviour needs to be more modular, and not hardcoded into the sprite node classes. Let’s try to refactor everything using an Entity–Component architecture instead. This will take a while and break everything.

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devember 26th — rearchitecturing

Saturday, 2015-12-26 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Everything ripped apart and moved around towards the new architecture. Still more work to be done before anything works again, but hopefully it will be worth it.

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devember 23rd — lethal aggression

Wednesday, 2015-12-23 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Coding on the train to yule.

devember 22nd — eightway movement

Tuesday, 2015-12-22 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Movement has been extended from four to eight directions. Everything feels much smoother that way. WASD is still bound to N-W-S-E. Maybe rotate WASD to NW-SW-SE-NE and extend with QEZX for W-N-S-E?

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.