First post of the year! Lets have a recap!

My first post to this blog stated some things I wanted to achieve! They were:

• Crafting table
• Boats
• Houses 
• Furnaces
• Smelting
• Add a hill generator to the terrain
• Holes
• Maybe enemies?
• Day/night cycle
• More variation of tiles

Highlighted in red is what Got done/semi implemented! The other stuff looks as it'll come once I work out a good way to craft items and what not!

A lot has happened in 3 months, I wouldn't call December a month to work on this, more like end of year/start of year that's slow, I can't wait to fully sink my teeth into this, I have a whole ton of stuff planned for this engine, and what 2 months work seams to of paid off, I know heaps about XNA/C# and there's still so much more to learn, After I come back on Feburary I'll work on this full time again!.

Snow!

Normal!

It's looking prettier by the day, I manage to fix a bug when you move left, the momentum for moving left was broken, I worked out if I speed things up it would bypass it all, got the whole place going darker underground but it as soon as you go under far enough will slowly fade, also you can press L to light up the place a little bit, I fixed the graphic and added in plants for snow and what not too, also trees, now I need a day/month/year cycle and to get the trees to have a life span! That's my next task!


It'll go something like this:


Day 0: Generator generates seeds, different seeds will have a life span value, I won't add in watering effects yet, I could add how much rain they get but this will do for now.


Day 3-5: The seed grows into a plant, the value will be random on it's growth, I'll add in a minus so how ever many times you collide with it, will harm the growth, maybe have the plant health and little hp bars on them, so they die if they hit 0, that seams like it'll be a fun challenge.


Day 5-7: The Plant will grow into a tree! A random tree but a tree none the less, this will be dictated by the climate on it's surroundings, maybe I'll add in a temperature and have the generator generate based on a temperature!


This should be fun!


Also, show your support and follow me! So I can see how many people I have following and it will give me more support too see others that want to see this project go ahead! It's going to go ahead nonetheless! After I'm done with this engine it will be able to be used by me for different 2d games (Think SNES quality). As it is I have a few designs already written up at home, to better the future of this!


What else needs to be put in is BARS so you can see a HP bar and what not! Leave comments below of what YOU want added!