The Archer - Devlog Video 3 news

Hello! Today I bring you the 3rd weekly devlog video for The Archer.

Here is the summary of the things I worked on this week:

• Blasted through the "tutorial" level. This is probably the fifth time I've made it, but I think it should be good for now.
• Got input disabling and enabling properly during and after cutscenes.
• Got started working on the new version of the website.
• More work on the new version of the website.
• Got a facebook page up. Feel free to "like" it if you are so inclined!
• Made it so that NPCs turn and face the player wherever he is.
• Added test lightning effects.
• Did a bunch of depth-sorting so that now the raindrops are properly illuminated by lights, and particles draw at the right depth.
• Fixed a small bug with the camera when changing rooms.
• Redid the way grass tilesets are structured, and reworked the red moss/grass.
• Added a new type of grass and reworked the original green one.
• Smoothed out and retiled Route 1 (the tutorial level). I'm gonna be using the pokemon name scheme for the levels between dungeons and towns.
• Added a room called "rm_tl_trunk" which connects Route 1 to Tilia Lea, and started tiling it and adding npcs.
• Did some work on ropes. They can now be split dynamically with arrows.
• Gave different collision boxes to arrows in mid-air (just the arrowhead) and arrows that have hit stuff already (the whole shaft).
• Finally took some time to actually gain a thorough understanding of the grandma engine, and cleaned up the player/npc/enemy movement code as a result, and added in movement behaviours for ropes and water.
• Tuned water movement pretty thoroughly, now I just need to add animations.
• Fixed a bunch of small things here and there, and did some more tiling.
• Made a bunch of sprites for different light emitting doodads.
• Cleaned up the light doodad code and added a parent light doodad object.
• Added in destructible lights.
• Made lights hang on ropes and fall if the rope gets cut.
• Started working on instance deactivation for objects outside the room, since lights were causing a bit of slowdown. A few bugs introduced, but nothing that can't be worked out.
• Made explosions split rope.
• Started working on fire.
• Made ropes have frayed ends when split.
• Destructbile blocks can now catch fire and blacken over time, and arrows stuck in them get destroyed when they do.
• Did some random and crazy experiments for different environments.
• Experimented with blurring background elements to simulate depth of field. I like it, but I might tone it down just a little.
• Fixed a couple of animation bugs.
• Extended Route1 to the on the east side. When I made the room over 8000 in width, my lighting system blew up, but then I figured out how to limit it to just the cameras view so its fixed now.
• Started working on a cave environment.
• I noticed the moon had drifted away when I changed the resolution, so I got that back in order.
• Made some design progress with the cave level, which is between Tilia Lea and the first dungeon.
• Fixed a small conversation bug caused by the instance deactivation code.
• Reworked the ground tileset.
• Redesigned cave level.
• Split moving platforms into hard and soft version, soft which acts as a jumpthru platform, and hard which acts like a square block.
• Added a few variations on the flower/mushroom sprites.
• Started working on this week's video.

You can check the links below for more information about the game. I'll see you next week!

-Gabe

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