Posted July 02, 2018 by ThorneStarr
#development tools #devlog #item editor
Development on Tiny Dino has been pretty slow recently, and I can only blame myself for that. But over the past few days, I created a tool that will help me work on one of the most important parts of the game... The store listings!
I've created a listings editor that gives me full control over the name, description, costs and even which image is displayed on the listing.
Because of the way this editor works, I have also made a couple changes to how the store listings are managed within the games code. Mainly the way it displays the icon.
The game used to set the icon based on the items position in the list of items, but now that I can manually assign which image to display, I no longer have to make sure I have each icon in the corresponding sprite frame to display the right image. And if I feel like I can use the same image as another item, then I can easily assign both items to use the same icon.
That's all for now. Stay tuned for more updates as they come!
- Sterling (SilverBlaze) McKay