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4:11am - Hey there Hi there Ho-there! It's Relee the Squirrel again with another Work Post. ~<3
I'm at the McDonalds again today but this time I drove here, so that's something special. I have a car now. It's kind of complicated how the ownership and rights on it work but it's effectively mine. I'd normally walk out here even with the car-having but I have a couple of errands to do this morning after work. Specifically I plan to go to the Saturday Farmer's Market at the Western Fairgrounds and the Gibraltar Trade Centre. I want to try and make weekly trips to these local fresh food venues and try to eat better. I probably won't get much this time since I have food at home and don't know what's available, but I'll take a look and see what I want to try and slip into my diet. Right now I eat too many frozen all-meat dishes and not enough fruits and veggies. Not many grains either for that matter. I eat a lot of meat and dairy. ^.^;;
Anyways it's work time. I've decided that since I'm having trouble deciding what features to work on in what order I'll follow this guide, for the time being: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=How_to_Write_a_Roguelike_in_15_Steps
I've done work that's all over this guide already, so I'll start by doing the lowest thing on the list that I haven't done yet, which is... *drumroll*
"Make the message handling routines -- especially for the debugging messages -- they come in handy."
This is part of Step 3. There's actually several steps per step, so this isn't really a 15 step system imo, but it's a handy guide. I haven't currently got any GUI elements in the game, and while I have some messages being passed around, I don't have a message pump recording them yet.
I suppose the first thing I need to do is develop some GUI.
4:49am - Alright, I've started doing a bit of a refresher on Unity's GUI system, and I think one of the first things I'm going to need is a nice Open Source Font to use.
5:08am - I've found a nice Open Source Font to use, and put it in Unity, so it's in there. Now I need to set up the formatting for the GUI.
5:40am - Boy that was hard, but I finally got the first panel to stay where I want it to regardless of resolution.
6:09am - Taking a short break after two hours of work, gonna watch something on YouTube while I eat my breakky.
6:30am - Okay, meal ate, shows watched, now what in the heck was I doing again?
Oh yeah, setting up the GUI!
I've got panels in place for my message panel and my main menu. I'd also like a map overlay, but that might be different from the menu. Maybe another canvas, maybe something in world space, we'll see how I do it.
The Menu should have at least the following options:
Character
Inventory
Message Log
Map
Save
Quit
I might add more as the game development goes on.
The Character option will bring up a character sheet. That'll go unimplemented for some time. Likewise the Inventory menu won't do anything until I have an inventory system for characters. The Message Log will be pretty useful and important and should be the main thing I work on for the next hour or two. The Map, Save, and Quit options will also be later things. Though it might not be a bad idea to have a Quit option for testing, so I might implement that next.
I'll go ahead and make buttons for each of those options on my Menu for now.
7:46am - I've got the buttons in the Menu Panel, and I've started making the Messages Panel that will display the Message Log. But I'm starting to get burned out; I've been working for almost four hours now. I'll probably head out in fifteen minutes or so, instead of waiting all the way until 9am.
7:56am - I have to use the washroom, so I guess I'll pack up now and do that, then go to the farmer's market.
I'll continue working on the GUI next time.
For now, Toodleoodleoodleoo!
I'm at the McDonalds again today but this time I drove here, so that's something special. I have a car now. It's kind of complicated how the ownership and rights on it work but it's effectively mine. I'd normally walk out here even with the car-having but I have a couple of errands to do this morning after work. Specifically I plan to go to the Saturday Farmer's Market at the Western Fairgrounds and the Gibraltar Trade Centre. I want to try and make weekly trips to these local fresh food venues and try to eat better. I probably won't get much this time since I have food at home and don't know what's available, but I'll take a look and see what I want to try and slip into my diet. Right now I eat too many frozen all-meat dishes and not enough fruits and veggies. Not many grains either for that matter. I eat a lot of meat and dairy. ^.^;;
Anyways it's work time. I've decided that since I'm having trouble deciding what features to work on in what order I'll follow this guide, for the time being: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=How_to_Write_a_Roguelike_in_15_Steps
I've done work that's all over this guide already, so I'll start by doing the lowest thing on the list that I haven't done yet, which is... *drumroll*
"Make the message handling routines -- especially for the debugging messages -- they come in handy."
This is part of Step 3. There's actually several steps per step, so this isn't really a 15 step system imo, but it's a handy guide. I haven't currently got any GUI elements in the game, and while I have some messages being passed around, I don't have a message pump recording them yet.
I suppose the first thing I need to do is develop some GUI.
4:49am - Alright, I've started doing a bit of a refresher on Unity's GUI system, and I think one of the first things I'm going to need is a nice Open Source Font to use.
5:08am - I've found a nice Open Source Font to use, and put it in Unity, so it's in there. Now I need to set up the formatting for the GUI.
5:40am - Boy that was hard, but I finally got the first panel to stay where I want it to regardless of resolution.
6:09am - Taking a short break after two hours of work, gonna watch something on YouTube while I eat my breakky.
6:30am - Okay, meal ate, shows watched, now what in the heck was I doing again?
Oh yeah, setting up the GUI!
I've got panels in place for my message panel and my main menu. I'd also like a map overlay, but that might be different from the menu. Maybe another canvas, maybe something in world space, we'll see how I do it.
The Menu should have at least the following options:
Character
Inventory
Message Log
Map
Save
Quit
I might add more as the game development goes on.
The Character option will bring up a character sheet. That'll go unimplemented for some time. Likewise the Inventory menu won't do anything until I have an inventory system for characters. The Message Log will be pretty useful and important and should be the main thing I work on for the next hour or two. The Map, Save, and Quit options will also be later things. Though it might not be a bad idea to have a Quit option for testing, so I might implement that next.
I'll go ahead and make buttons for each of those options on my Menu for now.
7:46am - I've got the buttons in the Menu Panel, and I've started making the Messages Panel that will display the Message Log. But I'm starting to get burned out; I've been working for almost four hours now. I'll probably head out in fifteen minutes or so, instead of waiting all the way until 9am.
7:56am - I have to use the washroom, so I guess I'll pack up now and do that, then go to the farmer's market.
I'll continue working on the GUI next time.
For now, Toodleoodleoodleoo!
