6 FEB 2021:
Using all of the things I've learned in previous weeks, I now have a really good "canvas" for my game. There are two modes. Game Mode shows a narrower windowed screen where all the debug information is turned off by default. This is how you will play the game. Then there is Debug Mode which is wider and allows me to see the values of different variables in real-time. As you can see in my Youtube video above, the sprites scale and reposition correctly, regardless of the screen resolution!
I've also made progress with a text-centering function. In all the previous demos of Scrapship, the text was never truly centered, just estimated based on how it looked.
What's the small spaceship on the left for? That's a reference image I imported to make sure the scaling was working properly. That sprite measures 64x64.
Thanks for reading/watching and have a great week!
Play a demo of Scrapship here.