Posted June 30, 2019 by Pejo
I've never made a game. But I've long had stray thoughts about one boiling in my head. They include:
For this year's unofficial Waypoint community jam I want to explore these concepts.
More concretely, I'll likely be using ASCII art because that's one of the cheapest and most simple ways to create a space. It'll be a top-down game about understanding a tiny world, although I doubt I'll make it that far. It'll be made in Amethyst because I enjoy amateur programming in Rust, plus its community is small and LGBTQIA+ friendly.
At this point I'm able to render an area and move a tile representing the player around it. If this project turns into a spectacular failure, I'll at least have that and the fun of learning some new stuff.
Plus the five star joy of seeing what other community members come up with.