microhorses!

I'm so excited to add more and more to the game until it's playable! But it seems that until mid-august i won't be able to properly focus on it. So i will return with perpetual devlog entries after that. If i sit down and do stuff before that, though, i'll be sure to post ^w^ see ya very soon!

Tomorrow is the international Decora day. So i refreshed my hairclip arsenal with a new big silly horseful one☆

btw i'm alive game's alive all good. just an overlap of turbulent times and boring logic/datastructure todo's mostly. i'm done with event registration and calendar so next step is the events themselves! or if i'm not in the mood, i'll implement washing the horsies <3

gettin' there with the event registration calendar!!! rrrahh game maker user interface programming is punishing but i hit harder. i ended up making a whole subsystem for creating, describing, drawing and operating menus, so from now on coding user interfaces should be a little bit easier. this thing is pretty much functional! now to program the events, or at least some silly placeholders..

Doing a TON of logic overhauling but also little bits of new stuff here and there. Implemented this thing today, mostly to say stuff like "you're already registered for an event!" if the player tries to register for an event for the day they already have another event on. But also other stuff, like in the video. I know there's a typo out there, whateverrr

i'm gonna make such cool new horse stuff soon. trust. and don't change the channel

probably some other stuff will need a horse picker, so i decided to make it its own separate thing - and here it is! 2 horses are to be picked, so it allows you to select no more than 2. the actual display will probably be a row of 6 to 8 horses, and the navigation arrows are here in case you have more and they don't fit (and you will have more!)

who knows, maybe you can meet a pink horse at some point?

What's cool about this is that now there are two "genes" (colourway and index) responsible for the colour instead of just one (colour name from the list). This means that inheritance can now be made more complex: random colourway of the two but average of the indices, one's colourway with other's index in it, and such and such - which i think is more interesting than simply being guaranteed to get a new horse coloured Exactly like one of their precursors in Horsie Crossing. Yay!