{"author_name":"Milo","cat":"LD #22","comments":[],"epoch":1324141380,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"61534","p_author":"Milo","p_authorkey":"2934","p_urlkey":"97299","p_title":"Status Report: Dwarves with X-Ray Vision","p_cat":"LD #22","p_event":"LD22","p_time":"1324141380","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2934","us_name":"Milo","us_username":"milo","event_start":"1323993600","event_key":"8","event_name":"LD22"},"text":"

So, I’ve got a sketch of the basic dwarf mechanics. They are very greedy. And, in fact, that part works perfectly! Those dwarves will run towards gold they can’t even see!<\/em> That’s not really supposed to happen. It’s made worse by the fact that they might be able to see another dwarf through the walls, and explode.<\/p>\n

Currently, what I have looks as follows. The red square is a dwarf, black squares cannot be mined, the dark gray squares are already mined. The brightest two squares to the left are unmined shinies. The sight of a dwarf is shown as the highlighted mined squares.<\/p>\n

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Well, seeing through the hardest material in game which can’t ever be mined is probably not a good thing. It sort of seems like it’s only taking the sight radius into account. The game mechanic just… doesn’t work without the sight algorithm working.<\/p>\n

Other than that (which, thanks to the fact that my code is… “neat” is easily replaced. I just don’t have a replacement), things are going pretty well. I’ve got a pathfinding algorithm that works (it’s just A*), and I’ve got the dwarf movement code working (well… as long as the sight algorithm works).<\/p>\n

What’s left for today:<\/strong><\/p>\n