So there’s been some more from the previous post. I quite like golang I think, although the lack of actual concrete style rules is very weird as a Google product but hey, I can live with that.

BUT! In my maybe an hour a day of wrangling with golang and ebitengine I’ve actually gotten somewhere. There has also been a LOT of refactoring to get things to behave nicer and faster¹. Maybe once this goes a bit further I’ll do a quick architecture overview but it’s going to look a lot like normal ECS & “scene-based” game-dev architectures because, well, that’s basically what I’ve been doing². There’s one thing my brain sucks at and that’s geometry. Since I can’t visualise stuff (Aphantasia and all) doing geometric calculations sucks. So I spent a lot of my time refactoring in such a way I would be able to do fewer of them. And I got it down to 2 from 5. Pretty good. But what was that main hurdle:

Yep, looks pretty okay I would say. Highlighting tiles is pretty important in what I have planned (TB/S RPG probably but maybe more). But as you can see, there is still minor hiccough. There’s a LOT still to come (my to-do list³ is ever expanding) but this is a big, big hurdle to get over.

Of course I did make it hard for myself by trying to have the tiles generate their highlighted state automatically but it was very ineffective, but I’m keeping that code for later since it might work in other contexts.

I also have an idea of how this game should sound but we are a looooong way from that.

I guess next week there may be something more, unless I get bored or frustrated.