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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Editor can now delete objects.

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Editor can now change the position of the player and exit.

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Editor can now change the direction the enemies are facing.

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Created the first level in the editor and tested it in game.

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And here is the level in the editor.

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Added an extra life.

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Editor can now increase the height of the level by pressing the + key.

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Actually creating levels in the editor now. I'm not the best level designer. I kind of create the level as I go and my editors aren't very robust, but make makeshift editors are much better than creating levels from a text-editor.

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Added a turret that shoots when in line of sight of the player. I will probably adjust the firing rate though.

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Levels can now have a blue background. Now you can have levels either in a cave or in the sky, I guess.

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Added background tiles.

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I'm now using triple digit values for each tile in the tile maps because I've added more tiles to the tileset and it gotten to the point that each tile needs a double digit value along with the single digit value that gives the behavior of each tile. Naturally this breaks compatibility with the levels of the older format and I have to convert them manually, and have the reconfigure the level editor as well, but that's the price you pay.

I didn't do it earlier because I didn't expect to use that many tiles. I then decided to include background tiles, so naturally that increases the amount of tiles in the tileset.

You may notice that these tiles are from Mario Bros and CaveStory. I do these as place holders, and I eventually create my own.

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Reconfigured the level editor to support the new format. I've also added a way to change the tile behavior and view the behavior of each tile in the editor. Tiles without an overlay are background tiles. Yellow represents solid tiles. Dark blue are platform tiles (ones where you can jump to from the bottom). Tiles with red overlays are spike tiles.

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Now here is a level I can make now that the format supports background tiles.

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I realize that I didn't include support to change the background color in the level editor, so here it is. It is done by pressing the left control key.

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Added walkable cloud tiles for this particular level.

I have no idea what this game is going to be about. It probably will be a mix of sci-fi and fantasy, at the rate at this thing is going.

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Added support for horizontal scrolling levels. Given, that this game is somewhat Kid Icarus-inspired and Kid Icarus did include horizontal levels, I decided I might as well include them.

Including this was a pain as I didn't originally planned to include this. I still haven't included this in the level editor yet, but I think I could get it done. I just feel like the game should be more than about some character jumping all the way to the sky.

In the level editor, I had to change the camera controls from the arrow keys to WASD because the left and right keys were giving me segmentation faults for whatever reason. Luckily, I can still use arrow keys in the actual game.

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Honestly, having a compiler/debugger telling you exactly what went wrong is something I like about higher-level languages like C#, Java, or Python, instead of this "segmentation fault" bullshit.

I found the problem with the segfaults. I was already using the arrow keys for changing the facing direction of a select object and I forgot to make the current object pointer null by default. I'm probably going to stick to WASD for camera movement though.

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Created a horizontal sky level. I'll probably have this level come after the vertical mountain climbing level.

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Created the first boss fight. It takes 60 hits to kill. I plan on having it shoot homing attacks at the player.

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