Update 9
Today I accidentally deleted the notes I keep to tell me what I added since the last update, so this might not be complete.
The title screen looks nicer now, and has a functioning level select:
As you can see, the logo outline is glowy now. I also added a cursor, more for fun than because it's necessary (there's like five other coding jobs I need to do before I'm completely happy with the engine).
The level select is just an array which finds the next X rooms in the resource tree and assigns a number to them. Because the automatic room data solution I was trying yesterday didn't work, I'll have to set X manually, as well as number all the rooms myself when I'm done. (I understand there's a thing called ds_list or ds_map that you can use to manage data like this? I think RPGs use these to manage enemies and inventory. But I don't understand how they work, and apparently you get big memory leaks if you don't handle them correctly, so I'll stick to my idiot solution for this game jam.)
As for the game itself, I added right-click to cancel block placement. I added a few sprites to the buttons; they feel more responsive to press now, and they're greyed out when you carry a block, to show that they can't be used in this situation. I also tweaked the level complete and you died messages, so that they're legible and nicer to look at. (I forgot to get pictures of these.)
I was hoping to be done with programming today, but there's a couple of big jobs I need to do. I need to hook the sound effects up to objects and the mute button, and I need some kind of ending screen. I was going to have an instruction screen, but I'll just use the sidebar for tutorial information for now. I think there's a few other tweaks to make here and there if I have time, such as making the game font a touch smaller. (It also looks really wonky in places, but from experience I think Game Maker just sort of does that to your fonts arbitrarily.) Other than this, it's all puzzle design until the deadline!
To round off today's devlog, here's a puzzle I made today. I finally figured out how to work the jam theme into my game!
