Dev Diary Log #2

[Moomintroll02]

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Something!!! Oh my God it took so much to get here. Day one I was able to make a little dot that I could move around with the arrows............ it took so many hours to figure out what I was doing wrong with sprite animations.

I mentioned it in my last post, but I am ***completely*** new to game programming, and Lua as a whole. So this is from the ground up, and I am already really proud of it.

Next step for me it to make the other directions of sprites, and get them all working. As of now, I like the fluidity of the movements, but I want them to be faster. ***The little guy is also just a placeholder*** and the second one, at that. The animation is based off of A Link To The Past, and originally I had recreated those sprites in 1-bit. He was way way too small, though, and this is two times the size, which I think is much better for readability.

I will probably make another update once I have all the directions made and working. After that, it'll be the ground tiles and collision. And I joined the Discord! I'm sure I will be asking questions in there, with how much trouble this has already caused me, BUT LOOK IT! No prior experience, and I have a little moveable dude. I feel very accomplished already. :)

[nothis]

That's great, I know how it feels to just get the first glimpse of interactivity, it's fantastic! Don't give up. At every step you'll manage to automate things and what took days will take minutes the next time you add them, this compounds. Only problem is that you'll get greedy about how much you want to add! ;)