Accidents of Two Kinds

I wiped out while biking today, causing a glazed elbow, a scratched leg, a sore hip, and a busted thumb. That didn't stop me from making progress on Cambria, though. With the help of my colleague, I was able to get a start on the actual town of Cambria itself as well as improve the melee combat introduced in the last update. The aforementioned combat still needs work, but it's already a lot better. I'll be revamping the chaotic medic NPC to something a lot more calm and collected than the little fiend you see running around level 4. I'm considering building a navmesh and time-based schedule for the medic similar to what you see in Stardew Valley, but that may prove to be very difficult. 

The update will release once I've completed the first draft of the town and its people, polished up the combat, and added what I like to call tileswitch blocks. It's a simple feature, but it can go a long way. These are tiles that start off as one thing (for example, a block) and then change form when a condition is met (for example, the block turns into grass when all the rovers in the level are killed). It's a lot harder to code than it seems. For now, these blocks won't be available to the player (unless you're modding the game), but I might implement these with limited functionality later on.

I should have these features, and subsequently the update, ready by early August. Please note that the layout of the town is subject to immense change.

I further customised my Ubuntu desktop environment as well. I forgot to mention this on the blog, but a couple weeks ago I tried installing Slax Linux on a USB which led to me wanting to partition my drive to include Linux which led me to utterly fucking that up and erasing my entire drive. Luckily, Cambria is backed up and so are most of the things on my computer. I've been using Ubuntu since then, a distro I've used on and off for the past seven or so years. I was tempted to use Manjaro but I think it's too advanced for me. Also, I'm perfectly content with apt and I don't feel like switching to another package manager.

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