OLives Dev Blog – Page 22 – Ramblings about hobbyist game development

Commit aba39e82

– add new job messaging mechanism that allows the job to return messages to the object manager
– add first message type that allows objects to transform themselves
– fix bug in the renderer that crashed when creating and removing the number of models resulting in the same number
– added more gameplay logic (starvation and death)

This is rather substantial as it adds the notion of “job messages”, that allows Python scripts to make changes asynchronously. The only message type currently supported is the “change object” message, which essentially transforms the object sending the message. This change needs to happen asynchronously for obvious reasons, as replacing the object requires a complete removal of the existing object, including the script instance, before it gets replaced by a completely new object in the same location.
On a more superficial levels, this adds a bit more game play, if you want to call it that. Yay!

Oh no, a famine struck the player!

Commit b4e17439

– add the gravestone object
– decrease the HP if there is no food left
– slowly increase the HP if there is food left
– add new object category so as to not list certain objects in the menu

Does exactly that. Also, finally there is some sort of consequence to not go with the one existing game play element: make sure to feed your characters!

Commit 30f1ada0

Position the job context list as close to the actual click as possible

Before that the possible jobs where always shown at the same static position, now the menu is positioned as close to the actual mouse click as possible without going off-screen or overlapping the job queue list or the bottom bar, check it out:

Commit 179ae260

Properly cancel the currently running job

While it could be cancelled before, there were some corner cases that could make the object go into an infinite loop when cancelling the current job while the object was navigating.

Commit 570888f8

Add ability to cancel the currently worked on job

Adds the missing feature of cancelling and removing the currently running job, as opposed to simply removing the queued up jobs .

Commit fd2e1d83

– make the job list hoverable
– add callback to the job to cancel jobs
– add job removal for non-running jobs

This starts to make the the job list interactive. Comes as advertised in the commit message!

Commit 9945fcb8

Fix lock-up problem when selecting an object that has a non-empty worklist

This was essentially trying to lock a mutex that was already locked.

Commit c764fa0a

Manually calculate the work list button size to ensure there are no rounding issues

Just slightly improves the sizing of the buttons, check them out now:

Commit 7bafdb25

Show and update the work list of the currently selected object (2)

Just some missing files. Whoops!

Commit 35d0d34c

Show and update the work list of the currently selected object

This adds a list of buttons on the left hand side of the screen that shows which types of jobs are currently in the queue for the selected object.
Clicking on the icons will remove the job from the queue for upcoming jobs and clicking on the currently active one will interrupt it and also remove it from the queue. All that good interactive stuff is not in there yet though, it’s just showing what is currently happening.
Finally we get to use the icon that can be set for a job!