Sprites

Sprite system is a go!

Careful there, sparky.

It's funny how much time I'm spending on the little parts of this game. A tile-system took almost no time to implement. Character movement was done in 30 minutes. But making sure the character wouldn't continuously jump by holding down the jump key took about 3 hours (there are a surprising number of ways this scenario can happen), and adding dirt clods that fly when you jump or slide that are visible for all of 5 frames (less than half a second) has taken me two days.

I'd be worried about this except 1) I'm having a blast, and 2) I really think the little details are what separate a mediocre game from a truly excellent one. Thats not saying much, I know, except that maybe people can tell when you loved what you were working on.

To do:

• smoother climb hills 
• - Still having a problem with character hesitating at transition between flat and sloped tiles.
• background tile layer
• - Think I may implement this as a whole new tile layer. Maybe?
• char animation
•  - So many more frames than I ever realized!
• death
• enemies
• shooting
• swimming
• scripting movies / camera