"Star Digger" Movement Demo

Devlog

• Postmortem!
  November 23, 2024 by DSri

  While I didn’t actually complete a game experience, I’m pretty pleased to have made progress on the engine itself! Stuff I reviewed or learned how to do: Saw if any of my old sprite code worked (i... Continue reading

  
• Tuesday and Wednesday - Final Days
  November 21, 2024 by DSri

  The game jam comes to an end and I’m submitting my progress. Day 5 was largely spent studying the nuances of the ThreeJS Sprite class in preparation for adding spritesheet support to my prototype. I... Continue reading

  
• Monday Day 4: Solidifying Code
  November 19, 2024 by DSri

  I spent a few late hours getting the Sprite and Starfield classes working better. While not perfect, they’re good enough to work as placeholders for the concept so I can move on. After wasting a bun... Continue reading

  
• Sunday Day 3: Updating ThreeJS from R69 to R170
  November 18, 2024 by DSri

  T’was a long day on Sunday. I spent half of the day porting 2009-era modular Javascript to 2024 Typescript in my current framework. This consisted of the main Visual and Piece class hierarchies and... Continue reading

  
• Saturday Day 2: Scaffolding Modules
  November 17, 2024 by DSri

  I spent another day working on infrastructure rather than actually making the game. To be fair to myself, I really wanted to use this jam as a reason to write infrastructure, but as I mentioned yester... Continue reading

  
• Friday Day 1: Behind the 8-Ball Already!
  November 16, 2024 by DSri

  Friday was the first day of actual development after our kickoff last night. The plan is to port some game code I wrote that had the game shell set up…how hard could that be? But first, I drew a dia... Continue reading