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Back In The Game

Back In The Game

Ice Man said it; we got bogged down with life and kind of hibernated on the project a bit. I got to be honest though, I have felt like this before...

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Whats next

Whats next

It has been nearly three months since the last to-do list was created. It really is hard to say if it has been such a long journey because of...

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Update!

Update!

No, I swear, we are still alive. With the holidays, birthdays, november and december just flew by. The october post with a to-do list has been slowly...

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Digger wigger, nose picker

Digger wigger, nose picker

I told jake, the game designer, think in more details and forget the fear of how long it will take to develop. I know that guy has a uber-creative...

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Burn Some More!

Burn Some More!

The player can seemily burn everything, and at times, nothing. I had changed the WhichTile() function to look at any part of the map and instead of...

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Burn Baby, Burn!

Burn Baby, Burn!

It is now time to implement FIRE! It seems odd that just now, after eight months of development, we are implementing fire into this game, being what...

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Crunch Time To-Do List

Crunch Time To-Do List

It seems as though we are a little closer than I realized to having a prototype of this game completed. So , I need to crunch to get this done. These...

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Regeneration and randomness

Regeneration and randomness

A big part of this game is randomness , which is obvious, since it is based on random generated terrain. I have my work cut out for me on that part,...

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Manipulation of a sprite

Manipulation of a sprite

I am thinking, that even though it is a prototype, we should build in the animation. Mainly, this is because I don’t want to do it later when we...

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A Brief Origin Story

A Brief Origin Story

“It’s a big idea, but we can do it.” -Me, an optimistic idiot, paraphrased. Since 2014 I have had one night stands with programming and game...

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My To-Do List

My To-Do List

I was feeling a bit overwhelmed this last weekend, which is different. I knew that just getting to it would solve that feeling. And sure enough, here...

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Stuck on Setting Tiles in Run time

Stuck on Setting Tiles in Run time

I am now stuck on why I can’t seem to change the tiles during run time, which is in theory, something that should be able to occur , but seems to be...

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Combat System Berth

Combat System Berth

So, the snakes are harmless, and there is a lot to be put into the system of predators, but they need to be able to attack, and ya know, the player...

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Mobs and Spawning System

Mobs and Spawning System

Yeah, I did say I was going to work on a few other things, but I was going to make the collector manager pick up items on the ground next,…. but what...

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“building” system is good enough

“building” system is good enough

So it took a bit, and I learned how to use the debugger for visual studio in order to find a infinite loop that was crashing unity. So thats awesome....

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Working on ‘building’

Working on ‘building’

So the player can now harvest some wood, with his bare hands ( he is a mad man …. or she…it , even….. anyways) . And it shows up in the players...

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