devember 28th — ruling brains

Monday, 2015-12-28 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Mob brains now run a RuleSystem to evaluate their options.

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devember 29th — regenerating health bars

Tuesday, 2015-12-29 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Health slowly regenerates, and health is shown under actor sprites as a green->red color changing percentage bar vs max health. Randomized result resolution for attacks.

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devember 27th — brain and body componentized

Sunday, 2015-12-27 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Quite a lot more than an hour of code times a few days, but the rearchitecturing is complete. Tomorrow we can move forward again, and create more complex AI behaviours for MobBrains.

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.

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.