#gamedev
its been five months since ive last posted, despite intending 2 use this as a programming journal

thats alright, i work slowly anyways, theres not a crazy amount of progress

my current project is inspired by travel games like oregon trail, or FTL: Faster Than Light

basic placeholder map:

ive implemented a basic event/dialogue function for my first real project, i think ive got a decent visual effect going with the way it "prints" lines 1 letter at a time.

still work to do, but ive gotta build up some other systems first

#gamedev #learning

so it occurred to me, it would be infinitely easier to read, write, and edit these arrays, by putting them inside of text files instead.

then, on ready(), i can just read the files, use the line breaks as points to split them into string arrays, and store that.

one of my favorite things about learning to program is continually realizing that there's far easier and more elegant ways to do things that have been tormenting me.

i have multiple arrays in my current project that contain tons of string variables. i've been manually filling them in my script.