27 december 2024

• Implemented bullet grazing;
• Implemented basic item functionality;
• Implemented basic boss functionality, including:
  • General phase setup functions;
  • Multiple health bars with their respective timers;
  • Spell Cards: Titles, warnings, cut-ins, timeout toggles;
• Made some adjustments to pattern generation;
  • A pattern's given X and Y coordinates become relative to its parent, it if exists (useful for spawning patterns in a circle around a boss or the player, for example);
  • Bullets based on an existing pattern's parameters can now be returned as a table before being fired, allowing for more precise adjustments.
• Implemented lasers;
  • LaserControllers containing laser spreads, through which properties like rotation can be set.
• Implemented basic player spell card, death and deathbombing funcionalities;

progress has been very steady on this project -- it's the one thing i've been consistently working on for every single day over the last few weeks, really. it's not very common that i get these moments of constant motivation to work on the same thing for longer stretches of time, so i'd better make as much use of it as possible before i inevitably burn out and put this project on hold for a month or something.

i recently posted a little showcase video on bluesky (quality got obliterated, but it's still readable enough i suppose). i'm actually surprised at the reception it's had over there -- for the most part i've been talking about this project in more private spaces only, so it's really cool to see there's some actual interest from other people as well! the whole thing is slowly but surely starting to feel like an actual game, and i'm overall very happy with how it's coming along.

for now, though, i'll probably keep adding some polish to what's already there -- the code, albeit functional, is very messy and wildly inconsistent, so it'll need to be taken care of as well. stages are probably going to follow a very similar model to how bosses currently work, with wait-timers, phases and whatnot.

thank you ♥