Midnight Update
Time for an update.
Progress has been bad, but not bad enough for me to give up. Which is unfortunate. I was hoping to sleep.
It took far longer than it should have, but the trading system works and as far as I can tell doesn’t break. The code running it is disgusting. Absolutely horrid. I hope it doesn’t break because I can barely remember how it works. It’s not even doing anything particularly complex – just the way it’s being done is stupid.
But anyway, I’ve moved on from that, and got on to the business of making the actual game. Well, so far just some terrible art, but turning that into actual game should hopefully be easy from here.
I leave you with the cast so far: 
No, I’m not making a zombie game. I’m merely very bad at this.