Day 1 Report – 3 hours of Dev
Still not sure what will be the point of the game. For now having fun making a roguelike Stardew Valley clone.
- Base setup using JSRL
- Till the ground using Hoe
- Switch current tool using Tab
- Plant seed
- Make seeds grow into plants
- Display Time of the Day
- Place buildings in map
- Faint at 2am
- Spend stamina using tools, and faint
- Display stamina
- Chop down trees
Day 2 report – 3 hours of dev
- Item stacking
- Crafting (Create a fence using wood)
- Plants that produce fruits
- Sleeping
Day 3 Report – 3 dev hours
- Drop produce into exchange machine (to get credits ($$$) next day)
- ‘S’ command to extract seeds from plants
- Implement facing, perform actions in the direction the player is facing
- Display list of items and selected item
- Make time go faster while sleeping
- Make plants take a long time to grow
- Capture and release beings
- Drop items from movement move
Day 4 Report – 8 dev hours
- Instructions
- Setup map preview tool for procedural generation works
- Camera follow with dead zone
- Generate map procedurally (see below)
- Mining
- Spend stamina while walking
- Place crafted objects one by one in the map
- Opaque and solid objects.
Procedural generation was the bulk of the work today. My initial approach was a three stages generator with the first one generating a low resolution sector map, the second one seeding the sectors and the third one running some Cellular Automata.
That didn’t work very well… the transitions between the different areas were just too apparent, and no amount of CE could fix it.
I decided to discard that initial idea, and instead place the “sectors” as irregular blobs in the Stage 1 generator.
Of course, that was just the beginning. I then had to tweak a lot the seeding and the Cellular Automata rules, and add additional logic for the mountain borders, ending up with this:
Day 5 Report – 5 dev hours
- Hunger system (and starve to death)
- Sickness (sleep well or you’ll get sick and die)
- Add trees to map (procgen)
- Create animal races procedurally (but with a seed, same everytime you play).
- Spawn animals based on rarity and spread across the map.
- Examine items and animals using L
- Change field of view depth and color based on time of day.
Day 6 Report – 8 dev hours
Added contributions from Mateo Robayo and QuietGecko!
- Tests of new palette
- Changed some character representations
- Audio setup
- First version of environmental audio for forest
- Sound effects for some actions (axe, pickax, till, etc)
Beside this, the following was added
- Build objects into the world directly (instead of adding them to the inventory)
- Change field of view depth and color based on how deep you are into a cavern.
- Place buildings in the map procedurally.
- Make the “memory” system remember displayed tiles including items and animals.
- Render memorized tiles in a different color than the environmental darkness.
- Make trees solid and opaque
- Add “notes” with hints
- Show current day
- Open and close doors.
- Craft Raft and row above lakes.
- Allow breaking down walls and fences
Day 7 Report – 10 dev hours
Last day, lots of things in. Here are the most relevant changes amidst many UI improvements and fixes:
- Changes in colors and character for items (mapedorr)
- Audio for actions (quietgecko)
- Back to using handcrafted animal races for better descriptions and names.
- Tamed animals producing eggs and reproducing.
- Ambient audio based on time of day (quietgecko)
- Play music sequences with random behaviour (quietgecko)
- Add plant types and crops
- Make animals eat plants
- Forage berries and mushrooms
- Nap or sleep until next day
- Endgame
- Regen HP
- Remove animals that are not captured
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