Week 11 - Busy

I think I've given myself too many things to do.

I had a todo list, but got everything on it done and just started scope creeping my way through more things.

Got the dandelion seeds done, but then I wanted to add clusters, similar to the Mario series red rings or music notes. Did that after some fiddling, but that revealed another problem. I need to keep track of the world state. Fortunately Godot has a function in packed scenes which lets you save and load them fairly easily. It's currently not quite right, since it doesn't save between game sessions, and there's a bunch of errors that output to the console that I need to hide. The error had to do with ResourceLoader not finding user://level, so if anyone knows about that some help would be appreciated. 

After a bunch of trying brushes and things not looking right, I finally got a good heightmap working. Three steps, first it was drawn, then ran paint.net's quantize function, then a gaussian blur. 

Got super distracted watching too many music theory videos. I set as a goal to have one full song in this project, which at my current skill level and time I think is reasonable.

This week

• Added giant dandelion seeds as a collectible
  • Added clusters that create a line of seeds
• Added an autosave function.
• Redid the inventory UI.
• Moved resolution down to 480x270. 
• Brought the map to its final permutation, hopefully.

Next week:

• Finish the save system and add inventory saving
• Make a title graphic and start cleaning up the main page
• Compose the main theme
• Find more sound effects
• Build out more areas
• Add fog + a teleporter for everything past the world mesh