It’s been more than two weeks since I last wrote about my progress with the game. Back then I wrote a list of things to work on and I’ve been chipping away at it, to the point where all the bullets on that list is completed, save for one.

• The enemy should have some kind of movement.
• The enemy should be able to hurt the player. ✓
• The players hp should be displayed in some way. ✓
• Moving out of the action scene should transition back to the overworld. ✓
• The should be some kind of permanence between the different scenes. ✓

Doing this project is still very enjoyable, to the point of it being the main thing I want to do if I get ten minutes to myself after the kids are down for the night. In reality that doesn’t mean much work per week but I will keep to the idea of at least one short programming session per week.

(Yes, as previously stated this is very much a Zelda II rip-off.)

I continued to work on the game yesterday. My goal is to put at least some work into it every week. I would really like to have a more ambitious goal, but I would like it to be achievable, so therefore I’m keeping it small.

I needed to back up a bit and redo some things from last time. I did indeed have a character that could swing a sword, but that sword meant nothing to the game. Now I’ve redone it in such a way that the sword is a separate object that spawns on top of the player object. There are also a really ugly enemy. If the enemy touches the swords, its hp decreases.

Next up

I still have things to do from my list from last week, so here’s a revised version.

• The enemy should have some kind of movement.
• The enemy should be able to hurt the player.
• The players hp should be displayed in some way.

Stretch-goals

• Moving out of the action scene should transition back to the overworld.
• The should be some kind of permanence between the different scenes.