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Esoteric Update #131 - Finally Done With The Graph

Esoteric ♥ Esoterica
A downloadable game for Windows

I think I ate too much egg...

But this is how it is during this time, when we remember the sacrifice of Jesus, as the Easter Bunny, giving birth to himself through the means of a giant chocolate egg.

Anyway, have some lore:

Lore: Of Fallible Words
Lore: The Small Gods Vol. XIII: Theogaton

Now on to the updates! I'm finally done with the graph, at least its first draft; it's kinda massive, but why talk about it when I can just show you:

That said, I actually didn't feel much like working on it, so I also did a few other vital things. Firstly, I finally got around to implement a conversion between a sparse graphs and full graphs (or speaking otherwise, between edge/adjacency list notation and matrix notation). That's going to be useful as doing this whole graph as a matrix would probably make me cry.

Secondly, a bunch of writing got done, but it's somewhat backlogged. There are two new shops by Dolly that need implementing, and I wrote about 30 random conversations. Hopefully, more coming soon, but we'll see how it goes. I just needed a rest from the graph stuff.

Thirdly, I did some good work on the actual AI that uses the graph, including solving a few problems regarding how certain specific pathing works. That is very mysterious, though, so I'll expand it by saying that this is about cases where the pair has to de-couple, change position separately and then go into a coupled pose again. Good to close out another open question about how things are supposed to work.

So yeah, let's leave it here. I'll be back with more in a week, whatever that will be.

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