Day 6: 2 hours in

Multiple posts on the same day like the first day? I don't see why not!

My function is done and working great! Looook at how it improved my main game code:

And, it's working!

Welp, that was a lot of images, let's talk some more then!
I created some kind of havoc by not taking a decision if I should be only and only refering my sprites and objects in my game world by their center of their topleft corner. Yes, just two lines above, I was happy making a function that would just mean to me that I should only count on topleft corner as offsets. But, that was 2 hours ago, I did a lot actually in that time! And discovered a lot.

You see, in any game engine, and that includes Love2D, there's a way to draw sprites using a origin offset, that same origin will be used when rotating a sprite, and that could also be used to draw sprites by their center offset, just like how bodies in Box2D are refered by. I just ignored that so far and just did my function and went with it, saying to myself that things would be easier. But, I forgot about one thing: my game will have rotation. Ono.

See how the white box and the magnet don't sync up? That's because when I rotate the sprite using the angle of the box representing it in the physical world game, it just rotates from the top left corner. Oh well, quick fix.

Yet, I can't help but feel like I've made my work my difficult by just not choosing, yet again. Well, third time's a charm, right? Hope so! Because so far, my code as become so unreadable that it may be used as an invocation tool for those ancient gods of which we cannot speak.

I will totally release my source code in hope that future generations will not make the same mistakes as I did. Oh well!
You may have catched it in my previous GIF but yep, the rope controls are here, and the rope itself actually is working, the very one thing I feared the most from this project. And you know what?

It... Doesn't look like my game will be very fun...
It's my bad tho, I did just jumped on the first idea I had, that meant it could be amazing like it could be, pardon my french, totally merdique. It wasn't really the very first idea I had to be honest, the very first one was a tamagotchi with plant, but since someone already made something like this on the practice jam, I didn't want to do the same thing again, would have been like repeating the same thing. I wish I could find a link to that game, I just catched a glimpse of it on one of the jam's Discord channel a while back. Meanwhile, you can find the practice jam here: https://itch.io/jam/level-up-circle-practice-jam

Anyway, so we got a game which can be... Maybe boring, flawed Game Design. What do? It's "Another Choice" time! May take the good path, may take the wrong path, like I said third's a charm so who knows!

Part of me thinks I should push and new game design ideas will come along the way. I already got something like that on the first 2 days where I thought "that would be funny if the magnet was actually a saucer".

Would have been like FLOCK! but in 2D and from the side with a more physic twist. But I kept going with my crane idea anyway.
Another part of me thinks I should just switch right now before doing any more asset or code.

Will go with the first choice. Even if I do not find any other path, since there's 3 days left, it's best that I at least make something playable and worth of showing than something that's still a prototype, granted, it may be a better prototype than the crane experiment, but it's still way riskier. The keyword here is: you will never know for sure what may happens in those 3 days.

Let's keep going!