Good afternoon blog that nobody reads, it’s me, your boy.

Yesterday evening, the best sequence of messages to ever grace my game dev brain occurred.

thakn you wooloo

Chicken Soup for the Repressed Game Developer’s Carpal Tunnel

After a couple hours of unrelated schoolwork, I started working on a prototype in HaxeFlixel, my personal favorite engine, and managed to throw together a basic player class and a tileset using some sprites I got from OpenGameArt (Thank you Emcee Flesher for the CC-BY 4.0,) and by 3 am I had finished a mockup of front of my high school in the space tileset.

the old map before I decided i've gone fucking mad

The reasonably sized map I had made previously in Ogmo3

of course this size of map lasted for all of the 6 hours of sleep I got, and while taking care of dogs with my left hand I expanded the map with my right.

no screenshot here because i forgot to take a middle one; please pretend there’s an expanded screenshot here

…but that wouldn’t hold me for long. After implementing the tile collisions in potentially the worst way possible,

CODE????

man i sure do love [].concat([for (i in 0...1000000) i])

I expanded it again.

and again.

and again

and again

for three full hours of manual tile placing pain.

BUT IT’S WORTH IT!

because now the map is big.

Ignore the left part I haven't got there yet

(not nearly as big as it needs to be, mind you,) (but still pretty big.)

I hope this actually turns out as well as it does in my head.

–Farr.png

P.S. Willow is a trans rust programmer who gave me this idea to begin with, I’ll link something of hers when she tells me what.

P.P.S. https://docs.rs/trans/0.4.0/trans/

P.P.P.S. no more update logs for Mendel.js for now, it turned out that combining arrays in various formats is actually really boring.