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Jul 7, 2021

I got so many things done during 2021. Like all of 2022 passed by and I barely refactored some of the code and continually realized how shit my game story will probably be my game will have a great story please play it when it's done

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AOE techniques work! I also learned the oddities of integer math recently... math is wack. -- Next up will probably be Healing? or Buff/Debuff.

WIP Inventory

specifically the list... My item categories have icons now. Icon design is hell but it's satisfying to have a finished set. Maybe I should try spending time brainstorming on ben and baber.

Objective UI and Quest System

Mostly backend. As usual, it's a pretty jank system but it works. No quest markers atm but I've been considering them. I also want to look into optional objectives. This is the first time I've seriously considered how quest systems work and it's quite interesting. I need to find more references to study haha.

Development Update

Hello, I made a post on TIG just now. It summarizes some future progress that hasn't been posted here. Check it out if you feel like it.

Aug 11, 2021

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Sorry for the imgur link, my gif was too chonky. Which makes sense I guess since it's a 30-second-long textbox that needs some of it's messages pruned.

Options Menu

The coolest thing this menu has is keybinding. I need to tweak it a bit so that the user has to specify that they want to apply changes rather than instantly updating the game settings

Quest System Cont.

Here is me playing through a short quest in an old tutorial room. I like this video since I engage with a lot of the mechanics I've been working on.

Ngl I kinda want to have combat take place on the same scene as exploration, you know Chrono Trigger/Sea of Starsy. However, to do that I'll need to do a lot of tweaking to my code and spend a lot of time redrawing enemy sprites I already made...

More WIP Inventory

I spend a lotta time tweaking designs instead of coding, which I feel guilty for... probably because my project's viability suffers a bit each time because I want it to look perfect before the first implementation... maybe ill spend a month doing quick and dirty sprints where I implement features in a week... maybe

i feel like Mario as a metroidvania is a concept that hasn't been explored as much as it should

i feel like it's rich with potential for that

I don't think you could implement anything like the standard upgrade treadmill without doing violence to Mario's basic idiom. When I picture a Mario game with a large interconnected world, I see something less like a metroidvania and more like the sub-game "The Great Cave Offensive" from Kirby Super Star; i.e., there'd be no permanent upgrades, but a wide range of temporary, mutually exclusive powerups, most of which can only be obtained in particular regions of the map, with the open-world traversal being purely a challenge of routing – identifying an obstacle at point A as requiring a powerup which can only be obtained at point B, and figuring out how to travel between those two points using the capabilities that powerup provides.