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 30th — random spawning

Wednesday, 2015-12-30 in devlog about #gamedev, #devember, #devember2015, #hourofcode, #objc, #spritekit, #isometric

Mobs randomly spawn, and soon becomes way to many for the engine to handle. Need to tune down spawn rate with number of mobs in play to keep the number reasonable.

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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.

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.