First devlog: /blog/1529159/new-devlog-open-world-survival-craft-game

Z sorting has been sorted with some minor optimization, since there will be lots of sprites to sort later. Solution should keep me going for a long while.

I made it so drawing now has it's own separate list that is sorted by the z coordinate of each thing in the world. Whenever someone's z changes, I mark that object as dirty, then before drawing, I pull it out of the list and insert it where it should now be.

There were some minor bugs, like the edges of the list not sorting proper, but other than grinding the code out, it was fairly straightforward.

I did look into alternative ways to do it, but I feel this is simple enough for the moment.

Now, I gotta figure out what the next step should be. I have a few options and have decided to use a flowchart:

So, I can either start with:

• items and their interactions (pick up, use, drop)
• non playable characters (AI, spawning/dying, combat)
• world (chunks, definitions, randomization)

And based on that, would unlock different topics afterwards. If anyone wishes for one of these to be next, feel free to comment.