Duckling Game 02 : Now with Ducklings!

I'm quite pleased with myself right now, I've got a partially broken flocking system for my little ducklings done that freezes my entire pc every now and then but that's all besides the point. For 9 days I've been trying to get them to move a certain way and finally it's coming together nicely and they're behaving in a way I want while using solutions that allow me to generate new navigation data at runtime. 

While dealing with the frustrations of going through a number of concepts, one thing that helped me was to work on smaller things that made a big visual impact. Adjusting all the colors to be more.. pleasing, doing a dynamic camera-framing-thing based on points of interest and player position, adding a little depth of field effect to enhance the suggestion of scale, auto-scrolling clouds.. small, achievable stuff giving a constant perception of progression.

<some time later>

It's now the next morning, I've been at this since 5am but it finally works and doesn't freeze up anymore. That's nice. Will need to clean up what I did to my code while figuring this out but at least that works. 

<some time later>

I  managed to implement the A* Pathfinding, into the main game loop, yesterday night and the Flock this morning. Boy was I ecstatic when it all finally come together!