Created my first enemy. All it does is move down. It's hard-coded into the level (it's not in the level file). The octorok sprite is just a placeholder (if I even plan on releasing this).

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The enemy now has random movement, but no collision detection.

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You can now kill the enemy. Deleting the object is so much different than what I'm used to. In C#, I could remove the object from its respective list within one of its method because it would be garbage collected. In C++ I have to delete the object outside of the object itself.

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The enemy now has collision detection.

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The player now knocks back when colliding with the enemy. And I've encountered a bug during this recording.

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Player can now take damage. Game Over screen is just a white screen right now.

Oh yeah, I've also fixed the bug, but I didn't feature that in this recording.

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Enemy now has a death "animation" (single frame).

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I tried to test out increasing the health of the enemy, but I'm stuck with this annoying bug where the enemy dies in one hit no matter how much health I give him. I even tried giving him 1000000 hp and the result is still the same.

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I've fixed the bug, but now the enemy is left on the death animation if it dies. As you can see, the enemy is knocked back based on the direction it is facing, when it should be based on the velocity of the projectile (result of copying and pasting code from player's knockback).

There is also a new problem in that I keep on getting segmentation faults. I don't know where they are coming from.

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Fixed the segmentation fault and the death bug. Segmentation fault happened because there was an index that I forgot to set to 0. I'm used to C# where integers had the default value of 0 when declared as opposed to random values as it is in C++.

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I've added keys, which can be used to open lockdowns that haven't been implemented yet.

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*open locked doors

I've added locked doors. Probably should create a better tile for them, but all tiles are placeholders (assuming I publish this game; this is merely me just getting used to object management in C++) as most sprites are from Zelda I and BS Zelda.

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I've added a heart that increments HP by one.

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Enemies are no longer hard coded into the map. They are now loaded from the map file. Ignore the enemy placement. It moved before I could take the screenshot. (My screenshot utility is probably delayed)

The first two numbers defined the level width and height.

The block of numbers are the tiles.

Everything after that are objects. They are listed by object type and then the x and y coordinates.

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Player position is now defined in the map file. The second line of numbers determines the player's x and y position (in tiles).

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Sound effects have been added.

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Door now has a sound effect.

I've also realized that the way I'm storing assets in RAM is inefficient (I've actually knew that since the beginning but I haven't bothered to fixed it). I need to implement an asset manager class and have each object store pointers to said assets. Right now, each object stores entire textures/sounds when they should be storing pointers instead.

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Added a basic hud.

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@xianc78 let a little bit of his head off the hitbox (separate sprite dimensions from hitbox dimensions in code) and it makes it 3d esque

@ne Changed that just now. Thanks for the tip. This kind of stuff was much easier in MonoGame because C# had built in getters and setters. C++ on the other hand, makes it a bit more cumbersome.

@ne I also shaved off some pixels from the hitbox horizontally. I've noticed that Link's Awakening has smaller hitboxes than the sprites. It makes it much easier to fit the characters in 1 tile long corridors.

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@xianc78 is the bullet colliding with the enemy multiple times? (causing damage being reapplied per frame)

@Binkle I've made it so that the bullet is deleted after the collision. I've also made it so that the enemy would be in a knocked back state on collision if they still have hp and the enemy can't take anymore damage while still in the knocked back state.

I honestly don't know what's wrong.

I've been writing a user interface for ytdl lately and I realized my code was very memory inefficient as well lol. When I figured it out I was like "wow I'm retarded how did I not catch that?" smh

your game looks very nice :)