For this jam I decided to totally bite off more than I can chew and have a go at creating a Dwarf Fortress-style dwarf management game, one that feels like it was originally on a C-64 era computer. I'm building it in C++ with the Allegro graphics library.
8/4/17
Quite a successful day of implementing the A* pathfinding algorithm, and instructing the little fellas on the finer points of digging. I should probably teach them how to drink beer next, or at least get them to fend for themselves a little. I got A* working, so how hard could rudimentary AI be...? :/
Going camping tomorrow, so no more updates until Sunday.
8/3/17
Currently have a tile engine working, with sprites, mouse interface, and a simple job system. The dwarves will take a task and execute it, and the only task right now is a request to move somewhere. It's been tricky remembering how to do smooth movement with a strict timestep, and keeping simulation logic cleanly separated from all rendering logic.
Next up is getting them to dig, and I suppose some form of A* or Djikstra path-finding would be good...
