Iteration 2 Journal

Iteration 2

November 7

• abandoned 'puff' effect on death -- it looked bad, was buggy, and wasn't adding much. will focus on other features and find juice elsewhere
• Added 'item inventory action' system for items to report actions they support when in a creature's inventory

November 8

• Basically completely removed recoil. It was freezing objects in the engine, preventing mutations. World is now stored in context, and there is a hook to retrieve it and re-render after every turn.
• Added 'modal' ui component support to expedition screen
• Added 'item interaction' system for items to report actions they support when on the ground in a creature's cell
• Implemented drop/pickup capabilities
• Added treasure spawning to the map, and somewhat correlated monster spawns with treasure
  • the loot table system is way too complicated, took a long time (~6 hours) to make, and doesn't really work well. will probably complete replace it, so should have spent less time up front
  • item data and related classes are cumbersome to use also

November 9

• Added monster loot when they are killed. They do not currently use the items however.
• Lots of ui/ux improvements based on playtesting
• Started A* pathfinding implementation

November 10

• Finished pathfinding
• Adding ability to 'click to move'
  • required reworking engine to allow for multiple turn invocations from a single ui event
  • there is now a ticking 'game loop' in the world that processes things regardless of the ui.. the ui just sets data when relevant
  • still some state->ui ugliness, but it's getting better