Harvest 3×3

Was feeling a bit rusty on Python, so spent an hour today throwing together a very simple farming game / idle game that runs in the terminal. Game’s called Harvest 3×3 (“Harvest Three By Three”), loosely inspired by Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley. All you do is wait until the crops grow and then harvest

Update

Been away for a while, partially due to the fact that I caught covid and have been sick for over a week. I have managed to do some work in the meantime, mostly on small, one-off projects that I’ll describe here. One of the smaller projects I put together over the last few weeks was

Candy Corn Catcher

Threw a smaller project together this week, over an afternoon. This is a simple arcade game called Candy Corn Catcher. It’s written with Python and the PyGame library of functions (with original art assets made in Aseprite), like Goblin Hero, but it’s only about 100 lines of code. You play as the flying pumpkin and

Starting with JavaScript

This was the first time in the last nine months that I went a week without doing any work on Goblin Hero. I focused instead on getting started with JavaScript, building some very basic beginner programs, to have something to talk about at my interview. The interview turned out to be kind of a weird

Big News

I believe I’ve finished animating all the spells for the Goblin Hero demo. One of them may need to be reworked, but I feel pretty good about the others. This one, Immolate, is one of the few I animated recently. I’ve also been continuing to code in the dimensions of the collision boxes in the

Specific Collision

A few smallish updates this week… first, I coded in all the specific instances of collision at their proper coordinates for the first level of Goblin Hero’s demo, the House level. These are just Wall objects, which are essentially rectangles, with their coordinates as attributes. This first level alone has about 20 Wall rectangles that

Another Level

The biggest addition to Goblin Hero this week is a brand new cave level for the upcoming demo. The cave level is planned to be placed between the hoarder’s basement level and the crypt level. I put most of the assets for this cave together this week, it’s about ten to fifteen unique tiles altogether.

Organization

I spent much of this week continuing the process of breaking my massive 4000 line source file into a smaller file structure that’s more intuitive to navigate. This is the structure I’ve settled on for now. I have a Classes folder and a Data folder. The Classes folder has each class stored in its own

Spell Selection

I’ve added four major new features to Goblin Hero and its engine this week. First, party members can now choose to Guard during battle. Doing this forfeits their chance to take a different action (like attacking), but halves incoming damage. The specifics will most likely be tweaked for balance in the future. Second, I spruced

Ghosts of Goblins

I reached several milestones this week regarding Goblin Hero’s development. The main source file has passed 3000 lines of Python code, and I’ve put in over 200 hours creating pixel art for the project. I’ve added a lot of changes to the engine of Goblin Hero, mostly relating to the improvement of the battle system.