Sandbox-2D

Got everything ready for a release. Added cursor support for some of the inputs. Fixed gravity in liquids and did a bunch more. Mostly just bug fixes and testing.

Worked a lot more on the console. I added commands like give, fill, place and etc. I also worked on a variable system. You can now write variables directly into commands like ‘echo $hearts’ or ‘hp $maxHearts’ and even edit game variables like shown in the video. I think that this is really cool and definitely will be useful for debugging later in the future. Not to mention all of the small bug fixes I’ve done.

I took a long time to implement a full console in my game. It saves history, has 3 basic flow operators for command chaining and has a bunch of commands. Oh yeah, it also has a scrollback. I also fixed a lot of bugs from the previous updates.

Did a lot of bug fixes. Like a ton of bug fixes. And I added 4 new ores to the game - coal, iron, gold and mythril - plus all pickaxe, ore lump and bar variants. This included adding crafting materials. (Disabled lighting in the screenshots).

Made it so tools now drop blocks based on its level. Meaning you cannot get stone by breaking it by hand. I also changed the color palette of the game because I lost the original one. I think it looks just as good if not better than it used to.

Added tools and a breaking animation. Took a lot of time to get the animation to work right because I hard coded it. And I had to mirror it for both sides the player is facing. That was tough.

Managed to compile the game on Windows10 myself. The rest of the time went into trying to restructure my horrible architecture and it failed miserably. Basically did no progress there. I’m kind of burned out from this project, I’m going to take a break for some time and focus on other things.

Did some small changes like limiting the mining and placing distance. I also added a mining animation. I’ll probably ship it tomorrow, but I can’t say for sure right now. Didn’t do a lot as I’m working on my website in parallel.

Worked on the game quite a lot. Fixed a bunch of bugs regarding the inventory and most importantly added a way to break blocks. You can break blocks, walls and even furniture. Breaking each block drops the corresponding item and furniture can drop a bunch of different items at once. I still have a lot to do like making a block breaking and placing animation, add a cooldown on breaking blocks, as well as other small tweaks. Oh yeah, also adding tools that break blocks faster! But I’m planning to also clean up my code as it is really messy right now.

I tried optimizing the map renderer, but failed. All that I managed to do was fix some minor issues and optimize the debri generation. I guess it wasn’t for nothing as you can save like 0.5 seconds on world generation?

I made it so it’s easier to place blocks from the inventory and a new purely visual slot that activates when you select an item and close the inventory. It displays the item, amount and it’s index in the inventory. Also a lot of inventory-related bug fixes!

Now I’m going to be fully committed to developing survival mode. I just made my inventory actually usable and now you can place blocks and furniture from it. You can also pick elements with middle click if the element is in your inventory. Also did some other small QOL changes and bug fixes.

Just did some polish, like added a slight vignette effect, as well as interpolating between heart and breath values and adding some sine wave to them. Looks amazing! I’ll make sure to ship it some time later this evening.

I’ve been working on adding indicators of damage and some effects on death. I added a particle manager and death particles. I don’t want the game to be really gory, so player leaves smoke particles on death. I also made the player flash red and a number showing the amount of damage done whenever damaged. I’ll play around with the heart and breath bars and I’ll ship it.

I had a lot of hazards in the game, but not a death screen, so I added one. It’s super simple - it says that you’ve died and shows the time until re-spawn. It works great. Oh, I also added two fun blocks - bouncy slime platforms and bubble blocks, which player can pass, but liquids cannot. Last updates were pretty grim, I just had to add something fun!
The game is turning out great! I’ve been adding a whole lot of new things to it recently. I’ll probably work on some polish next, like adding some damage and health effects. I also love this cool test world I’ve made to test interactions.

I added suffocation whenever tiles are on your head and fall damage. Might have to tweak fall damage params in the future, but I really like the current state of the game. Now I’ll work on dying next.

Just added a breath and drowning system. Whenever the player’s head is below water, liquid honey or lava, the player will slowly run out of breath and when the player is out of breath, they slowly lose HP. Was trying out different UI layouts, but went up with the classic Terraria one, where the bubbles appear right on top of the player. This marks 2/4 hazards that I want to implement before shipping 0.1. The next two will be suffocation in blocks and fall damage. Will add sound effects in the future.

I added a heart system and a regeneration system. Currently has no cool effects and looks kind of bland, but I’ll work on it right after adding more hazards, like fall damage, suffocation, drowning, etc. Right now only lava can hurt you and honey boosts regeneration. I’m pretty sure solid honey blocks also do that. Oh, and it is impossible to die right now, that’s why the character survived with no HP. That will also be addressed in the future.