Welcome 2020

Hello, I hope you had a good new years! I had a good holiday season but again I didn't get as much done as I had wanted.

I put alot of effort into learning Lemur's style system which is really cool but has a high learning curve. When I implemented my ui elements for Reindeer Rearing the first time in Lemur I wound up making many sub-classes of the default components. This looked good and worked as expected, but it was alot of work and alot of copied code. Using lemur's styling it looks like I can minimize this duplicated code almost entirely. Here's my current placeholder ui until I can re-work in the pixel art from before:

I was able to implement the chime sound effect when buttons are pressed in 7 lines in the style, which is automatically re-used for every button. In the original Reindeer Rearing the simple chime effect was 4 lines of code every time I created a button.

I am also completely re-working all of the mini games. I am aiming to get them to feel more responsive and overall more polished. At the moment they are all simple debug shapes or output text so there isn't much to show, so I hope to have some of the artwork moved over or replaced by my next post.

That's pretty much all I have for today. I'll try to have more artwork and maybe some usefull code snippets next time. Consider that a resolution ;)