Level resets when you fall off screen.

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Added platforms that you can jump onto from the bottom, but proper collision detection still needs to be worked on.

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Added the first enemy. It just walks back in forth right now. It doesn't even take or do any damage, at the moment.

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Added a second enemy. It just moves up and down.

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Added HP (which you can't see) and sprite flicker when you get hit. I normally put stats like HP in the title bar before adding a HUD, but that didn't show up in my recording.

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Added death sprites to the characters.

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Enemies now flash red when hit.

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Enemy now changes directions when at the edge of ledges.

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Finally added sound effects.

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And somehow they didn't show up in my recordings, despite me unmuting the desktop audio.

Alright, he is a recording with actual sound this time.

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Player character can now look up and shoot up.

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Created a new type of enemy. It moves in a sine curve. Though the movement needs some tweaking if it is going to spawn in groups like this.

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Got somewhat of a better pattern.

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Added hearts, though you still can't see the HP.

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Added a basic HUD. It's just text right now, but I plan on replacing the HP text with an actual health bar.

Right now, I"m suffering from writer's block on enemy design because I can't come up with new enemy ideas. Maybe I should replay Kid Icarus for inspiration, but I don't want this to be a straight up clone of the game. I always try to come up with at least something different.

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Added a Game Over and Title screen. Both are currently blank and are red and black respectively.

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Added a new enemy. It attacks when in line of sight of the player. It still needs tweaking. The placeholder spritesheet has unequal sizes for the sprites.

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Got the enemy to attack when the player is at most, 4 tiles away from the player and is facing the player. Though admittedly, it should be lower. I was just testing the conditions and I will lower the range to make it more reasonable.

I also got the hitbox to change size during the attack, but that's not demonstrated in this recording.

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Tweaked the range to be more reasonable. Ideally it should be within stabbing distance.

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The enemy now deflects bullets when facing the player and not attacking.

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Replaced the HP counter with a health bar.

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Added a lives counter to the HUD (was there before but it was just text and I removed it when adding the health bar). Right now, the icon is a coin because I'm borrowing HUD assets from a previous game project which didn't have an icon to represent lives.

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Enemies now randomly drop hearts on defeat.

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Added an "open door" animation when you reach the exit. Now, you have to press the down key to proceed.

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Door now makes a closing sound as well.

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Replaced the solid color tiles with an actual tileset. It's still a placeholder though as it is from another game (Mario Bros.).

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Added a menu, imported from my last game. Not sure if I will have high scores for my game though.

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Added a death "animation" for the player.

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Just got started with the level editor, but it's not functional yet and my meds are wearing out, so I have to work on it later.

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Level editor is now running, but it's nothing, but an all brick background. Bare with me!

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You can now place brick tiles in the level editor, but that's basically it for now.

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It's been a while, but I finally decided to take the gamble and use my dying laptop to add the ability to change which tile to place in the editor.

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Added a UI bar at the bottom which displays the current tile. I also added a yellow outlined rectangle which represents the area that is actually seen in game. Since the player can walk to one side and appear at the other, I have to include tiles that appear offscreen, so naturally the editor window is larger than the actual game window. This outline shows what will actually be visible.

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Level editor can now load levels, though it can only load the tiles and you still can't save.

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Game objects (only hearts) can now be placed in the editor. The editor now supports saving, but only the tiles.

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Editor now saves objects (still only hearts).

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Editor now supports all current object. You may notice a bug in this recording after saving with the fourth enemy being in a lower y coordinate after reloading the file. That's due to the fact that this particular enemy is larger than the game's tile size. I'm working on this issue right now.

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