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<\/p>\nI haven’t had a lot of time to work on this game, but I’ve done a few things.<\/p>\n
Thanks to a few people from the GMC, I have a few game title suggestions to make the game sound more fun\/exciting: \u00a0“Cleanup In Aisle 3”, “Attention Shoppers”, and “Checkout”. \u00a0I haven’t made up my mind about the title, whether keeping it as “Smalltown Grocery” or changing it, but the suggestions definitely help get the thought processes flowing.<\/p>\n
Mostly, I’ve been working on sprites. \u00a0I’ve started an ‘art assets needed’ list and have been working through it, though slowly. \u00a0I’ve made a customer sprite and an employee sprite by modifying the person sprite in two different ways. \u00a0I’m not perfectly happy with it — I feel like I could make parts and pieces more interchangeable and modifiable if I separate them out more. \u00a0For instance; leg sprites, upper body sprites, head sprites — then combine them and color-blend them with code for variety. \u00a0But for now, I have a brownish customer and a black & white employee. \u00a0I also created a shadow to help contrast against the floor. \u00a0Now I’ll have to give everything else shadows — doh!<\/p>\n
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I’m a little stuck with how I want to go about coding the game, as far as laying out the store’s floorplan. \u00a0My shelves will fit into 32 x 32 grid squares, so I was thinking of using grid collision and pathfinding. \u00a0However, I don’t want my walls to be 32 pixels thick. \u00a0I want them to be 4 pixels thick. \u00a0So, I’m trying to figure out how to manage the two different sizings, but I really have no clue about where to begin. \u00a0I found a write-up about using something called HAA* pathfinding<\/a> to do this, but it was beyond my ability. \u00a0Trying to read and comprehend it was turning my brain to mush. \u00a0Maybe with more study and patience I will find a solution, but for now I think I’ll keep working on sprites.<\/p>\n So, that pretty much sums up my progress. \u00a0Not much this week. \u00a0Probably not much next week, either, but we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t had a lot of time to work on this game, but I’ve done a few things. Thanks to a few people from the GMC, I have a few game title suggestions to make the game sound more fun\/exciting: \u00a0“Cleanup In Aisle 3”, “Attention Shoppers”, and “Checkout”. \u00a0I haven’t made up my mind about … <\/p>\n