Devlog: Day 2

Today is the second day in a row that I've gotten a late start in the day. That puts me at 100% late starts in the jam so far. I ended up starting after dinner and have gone for a few hours and have been quite productive in the 4-6 hours I've put in today.

Planned work for Day 2

• Level management system (completed) - I wanted to create a more elegant level generation using loops and tables
  • win/loss state for a level
  • proper enemy queing/tracking system
  • difficulty curve for level advancement
  • restart game for lost levels, advance to next difficult for win states

Unplanned tasks for Day 2

• Sound effects for player actions (completed)
  • fire missile sound
  • ice missile sound
  • mob kill sound
  • wrong element hits mob sound
  • switching between elements
• Level over states (completed)
  
  • Level win state that advances the difficult
  • Level loss state that advances to a new game
• Highscore system (in progress)
• UI elements for spell selection (completed)
• Resource management (completed)
  
  • added response to HP loss
  • added mana regen as well as mana checking/expending for spell casting

Planned for tomorrow

• State machine to manage all states of play
• Title screen
• Help screen
  • Instructions
  • Credits
• Level over
  • win state
  • lose state
• Game over
  • win state
  • lose state