Dark Star Survivor - v0.2 Alpha

v0.2 is here!

As a new father, I've got much less time to dedicate to projects like this, but I promise, I'm still clacking away heavily on my keyboard to get this pumped out. 

I've accomplished a lot in this release!

• New Enemies
• Metaprogression
• More Armours / Weapons
• Serialisation

A journey: Where's the Mortein?

Ah C- how I've loved to learn you, and will never  use you again. I've loved learning C, I've learned so much about the low-level programming, and all its pitfalls. There's a lot that I like about designing all of the systems that I've used, from serialisation, rendering (on top of OpenGL, via Raylib), UI systems, data design, build systems (not the best fun for me!), etc. I've been down a lot of rabbit holes through this project, I feel better able to solve more problems now. But it's been painful. Most of the pain for me has been setting up some tooling, or getting the CMAKE build system to work. I've time poor - so getting deep into these systems and configuring them is not what I want to spend time on. I'm forever thankful now for what Game Engines like Godot provide for me. I just want to code the game. I'm not interested in solving problems about building the game.

These challenges have certainly fatigued me a long the way (nothing like the build system not working to keep you up late at night!)

The journey ahead: Probably just one more major release!
I have a couple more items that I want to develop before bringing this project to a close. This game is still very much WIP, and I haven't finished the full-loop of the game (as how I envision it!)

Milestone Activities - Complete Gameloop and User Experience

• Captain Level Enemies
  • which drop reward chests
  Full 20 Min Game Mode
• UI Tweaks
  •  Challenges in Prologue Menu
  • Tutorial on Main Menu
• Settings
  • Controls re-work
  • Controller Support
• Sound Overhaul
• Complete Game Loop
  • Transition from Prologue
  • Simplify game scene
  • Boss Enemy
  • Davo (Shopkeeper)
• Playtesting