On to my progress. With the recent updates, I was forced to create a stats display at the top. My original intention was not to have the big black bar at the top, but I quickly realized that it wouldn't work. If I am to have a fixed camera for different areas, I can't have the player walking up into the stats displays. Due to this I had to make the areas a little bit smaller in order to fit the display at the top. So far I have the heart display and rupee display all finished.
This new addition is great for the full screen mode since it makes the black area at the top of the screen look a little more natural.
Well, with the heart and rupee display comes hearts and rupees. I now made rupees and hearts spawn randomly from bushes. There are also rupees that are worth 5, but they appear on a fairly rare basis.
Now there are also red rupees which are worth 20. Something that valuable shouldn't be found in bushes or other destroyable objects at all. With the many valuable items like that in the game, I had to make a chest system.
The chests work with a list, each chest with its own code. Once you open the chest, that code appears in your list. If you go to the chest again it checks if the code is in your list. If it is, the chest is empty. I'll also check for the same thing when you load a savefile. All chests that have codes in your list will be automatically opened and empty by default. So far I just have this little test area for Vic to go around in. You can grab 1 rupee, 5 rupees, or 20 rupees from chests so far.
That's all of the updates I have for today. I can't wait to get all of these systems done and start the game into its beta phases. I hope you all like what you see so far!
