I got most of what I wanted to do today, a new power-up and a new puzzle mechanic, but I think I'm going to take the rest of the week for better art, then most of the rest of the month after doing map design. I really want a good map and art.

I'm hoping to get a couple tilesets done- once the tiles are done, then I can get to work on putting my enemy designs in game and making AI, as well as making the non-tileable stuff and the parallax backgrounds

it is very frustrating working a full time job because i just get to think about this until i get out of work tonight. Last night I ran into some snags with the method i was using for hidden walls so want to clean that up, as usual i thought of a solution to try after i'm already in bed for the night. Then I want to get enemies responding to players attacks and vice versa, and I want to build a rough version of the first area so i can actually start working towards taking all these pieces and making a game of it.

Luckily I work long 4 day weeks so today is my Friday and I don't have to worry about getting to bed early. Even better is I've secured some holiday time off in the first week of march so I can pretend game dev is my full time job for a little bit. Good luck to everyone today!