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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