i participated in a game jam with the theme 'one last piece'
playable in browser here: bearcabin.itch.io/puzzle-plus
jam page: itch.io/jam/goblin-b...

trying to capture an old pc feel with the animation for appearing windows: draw a 'blank' space, draw blue bg, draw frame, draw content.

ui shake + bg flash kaboom effect

spent some time today making an action log that behaves like ffxi's log, expanding and contracting up to a max number of lines

saxophone jumpscare

map editor now saves and loads files

custom engine update:
- os auto-detects game and apps to list in the boot menu
- smooth loading/quitting of applications
- applications can set what dropdowns appear in top bar of os
- map editor development has begun

testing the formation option of the main menu: reordering party members and placing them in front/back row

because this engine is just for me i can add unhinged things like artificial loading times for my dev tools

I've spent the past few days tinkering with love2d, exploring a concept for an engine that has 'hardware' limitations. this audio system has 6 channels and playing sfx mutes a channel of music while it's playing