Day 4: When progress doesn't feel like progress...

...you write it down so you can see how far you've come later.

I changed the menu options while poking around in the "start" program.  I still have no clear idea of what it is about where I put that text which makes it begin a game, or why the "cursor" is a finger and not an arrow, or how I could change it to an arrow.  But eventually, I will be familiar with this.

Instead of "Test Game," the top left displays "Practice Makes Perfect."

Starting options now read differently.  Cursor is still a finger.

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Two more boards!  Game world doubled again!  You can even walk from the first one all the way to the last one.  Complete with collision and program vectors, which I can now program to do one thing once, and then do another thing, thanks to Occasionally_Correct's tutorial.  Behold, our meager flower field farmer complains not once, but twice at how the player doth trample upon his flow'ry field:

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Beyond the farmer's flower field, the entrance to the forest.

The road doesn't go very far in this direction...

I also figured out how to edit tilesets... and broke all my boards in the process.  But fixed them!  I also got in some good tutorials on Creating and Using a Sprite Base (six parts in there, so far).

There!  I feel much better, now.  A noob I was, and a noob I remain, but today I still made progress.

Things I still want to do:

• Move message windows around the screen.
• Display an image after beginning a new game (with the "start" program?).
• Make text appear upon that image.
• Make a message window pop up when appearing on the first board.
• Make only one button close that window - otherwise the move keys close it!
• Make the farmer move to the player as part of the trespass program.
• Give the player the option to talk or initiate combat.
• Make dialogue options.
• Make combat.  (UGH.)
• Make the farmer's door work.
• Make the farmer's house interior work.
• Add under vectors to trees.
• ...something with layers.

It looks so big and scary like that.  And combat is going to blow up into like a million things.  Whatever, I'll still take it one step at a time.