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Like March, this is essentially a non-update. I got some work done on a WIMP-style UI interface: windows, scroll-bars, buttons, checkboxes, radio groups, all that fun stuff. I had issues writing an input field widget,…

This is a short one. I spent most of the month cleaning up source code to release as libraries. By the time I got back to the build system and the engine run-time, I forgot…

I’ve got nothing terribly photogenic to show this month, as most of the work I did was at the command line / terminal level. I did find an old build of the game from 2019,…

I’m changing my post format a tiny bit. I’ll be starting with a quick summary, so that the first thing to appear on the blog’s main page isn’t the project’s screenshot caption without the screenshot….

A test program that’s about 35% complete. It will be a performance test for plain LÖVE draw commands, SpriteBatches and instanced mesh draw calls. EDIT 2 Jan 2022: I think I greatly misunderstood what love.graphics.drawInstanced()…

😮   Some brief footage. No new content to show this month. I took some time to reflect on the state of the project, and ended up making a lot of cuts to the engine and…

This month’s prototype level.   Some gameplay footage for the month.   October Summary: Added a player ‘above-screen’ indicator Cleaned up ‘extra health’ item, added ‘extra life’ item Split ‘proto_e’ into submaps and added it…

Flying limb sprites, appearing only when the player gets a game over.   Here’s the September gameplay footage. Like with August, there’s nothing terribly interesting to show this month. I spent most of it fixing…

Firing a shot from within a tunnel. Here’s some footage. I spent a good chunk of this month catching up on bugs, so I don’t have much to show this time.   August Summary: Worked…

A new design for the ‘bot’ enemies, and a new fire-jet projectile.   Some gameplay footage.   July Summary: Redesigned the ‘bot’ enemies to differentiate them from the player Added new enemies and drew /…