This week, following completion of my first little Playdate test project Retro Invaders, I've started work on something new. Inspired by 8-bit classics like Quazatron, Alien 8, Paradroid and that sort of thing, I've decided to go for something to do with robots in an isometric world. It's very early days, this is literally a few hours work, but so far I've got a map created in Tiled loaded and displaying the world a room at a time. Some rooms will be small and static on screen, others will be larger and scroll around.
I'm new to Playdate and so far I'm loving it. I've chosen the C SDK of Lua, just because it's a language I'm already familiar with.
This looks great so far, something about isometric games just look so great.
This makes me think of like a day in the life of a robot and he would have to complete his daily tasks, going to different rooms and bringing back data
NPC robots, with varying speeds, now wonder around the play area making their own decisions on where to go. Also made the entire play area visible just for testing, but I actually quite like it.
Thanks. All entities can move anywhere on a block, it's just that the NPC robots currently stick to quite rigid pathways. That might change as things move on.
That was exactly my thinking. Not that I'm going for ultra realism here, but yeh, they'd stick to straight lines. Well, they will in this world anyway.
