Windy City Politics

Devlog

• Day 11 – A mostly finished inkling
  July 11, 2019 by Pejo#inkling, #amethyst

  A few days have passed since my last entry. I've been trying to finish my basic implementation of the Ink dialog markup language and have finally gotten it to a stage where I'm ready to publish it. W... Continue reading
• Day 7 – Gronking dialogue graphs
  July 07, 2019 by Pejo#amethyst

  These past two days have been spent working on the dialogue parser. Most of it on working out a structure for the data. In essence dialogue trees will always form a graph of nodes and branches. So a f... Continue reading
• Day 5 – Dialogue systems
  July 04, 2019 by Pejo#amethyst, #ink

  Since I do want to add some actual content into the game soon I spent the day playing around with a dialogue system. My demands are pretty simple: The dialogue should be read from external asset files... Continue reading
• Day 4 – Revenge on prefabs
  July 03, 2019 by Pejo

  Yesterday's attempt at creating characters using the prefab system left me unsatisfied. The main problem was that I could not specify default components or derive them from the input asset files. More... Continue reading

  
• Day 3 – Crying with prefabs
  July 02, 2019 by Pejo#amethyst

  My idea of today's work was pretty simple. I had the sprite rendering set up and could move a tile representing the player character. Next step: replacing the tile with the good old '@' glyph to repre... Continue reading

  
• Day 2 – Menu creation
  July 01, 2019 by Pejo#amethyst

  The basics of UI – a main menu – has been created. (I'll use this blog to work through my issues and thoughts while learning how to use the Amethyst engine.) Creating a menu forced me to learn tw... Continue reading

  
• Day 1 – Joining a jam
  June 30, 2019 by Pejo

  I've never made a game. But I've long had stray thoughts about one boiling in my head. They include: Understanding a space is fun This includes working out its rules Lo-fi art is democratizing For thi... Continue reading