Got a basic tile system working.

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Created collision detection with solid tiles.

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I've added projectiles that the player can shoot. I was originally just going to make a simple maze game but I got carried away after getting a hand with SFML.

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Player now has an attack "animation".

Now I have an actual tile map.

I've added exit tiles. It just ends the game because I don't have it programmed to have multiple levels yet.

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So it turns out that I can't have multiple levels without major reconstruction of the code. C# spoiled me with it's lack of import/include statements and Python was dynamically typed which meant I didn't have to declare the object type right away, so now I have to deal with avoiding recursive includes.

Ugh!

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Got a second level. I learned that if you just include a blank class definition of a dependency in the header file and then include the actual header of the dependency in the source file, then you can avoid recursive includes.

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Now there are three levels, all of which are derivatives of each other.

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Got a camera to work. It's manual but if I plan to actually finish this game, I would probably have it scroll based on the player's position and movement. You can also see that there are tiles outside of the camera bounds. Those were left in by mistake.

SFML has a built in camera called sf::View. It's pretty weird. I'm used to having a 2D camera origin being at the top-left corner just like sprites, but the origin is actually in the center which is something I need to get used to.

I mean, it's kind of justified because it also has support for rotation and zooming (things I have never used). I'm just used to implementing my own camera system and just drawing sprites based off of their positions and the camera offsets, but that not an option here because sprites are automatically drawn based on their position (no manually drawing here).

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Now the camera vertically scrolls with the player's movement. Horizontal camera movement hasn't been implemented yet.

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Horizontal scrolling with player movement has now been implemented.

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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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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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Got HUD icons.

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Added a second enemy class. This one takes two hits to kill, while the first one now only takes one hit to kill.

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Added an actual health bar. I probably should move it before the key counter because it looks weird the way it is right now.

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Rearranged the UI. The health bar is now on the left. Looks much more natural.

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Create a life capsule, which increases your max hp and a new enemy that takes 3 hits to kill.

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Replaced the Zelda tileset with my own. I even added an extra wall tile for forward-facing walls.

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Replaced the wood tiles with charcoal colored ones. Wood didn't look good mixed with the metal-like walls.

I've also changed the tile format for the levels. 1st digit is the tile type, while the 2nd digit is the tile that appears on screen. It broke compatibility with my level files, obviously, but it's worth it because now the tile maps are readable.

Also, the first level you see in this video was just some sample output generated from a procedural generated cave algorithm on the roguebasin wiki. I just converted it to my level format. It kind of looks without a cave tileset though.

http://roguebasin.com/index.php/Random_Walk_Cave_Generation

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*It kind of looks weird without a cave tileset though.