Made a little update while I couldn't sleep last night, brought over a little friend from my previous project, gave them a lick of paint and some nice fresh new code. Now we have a slime that can shoot. Quite pleased with how it's turned out.
Todays work involves the start of the system for item drops, currently have coins that drop ( these currently do nothing upon collection ) and hearts that drop ( not the final code on these but have set them to heal the player upto full health ). There is more tweaking to be done with the code but this gives an idea of how things will work. Later on other items will be dropped as well such as ammo.
Second update of the day, the most obvious being bombs have appeared, the explosion still needs animating, having a bit of trouble with that currently but the current sprite works. The pulsing effect turned out better than I expected for a first try on the bomb. The second update is a small improvement to the throwing system. No longer can thrown items be caught mid-air and rethrown (allowing the player to throw them further and further out of bounds). I'm currently playing with the area around the player where they can grab things, hence the black square around the player currently.
Took me forever to get this working, had made some changes to how things worked earlier to makes things run smoother, turns out that was a bit of a mistake. Had to go back and undo some of my changes, then realized I'd left in one line of code that was causing everything not to work right. However I am now pleased to show off the first quest, "The Quest For Shades". Obviously they'll be a little harder to find in the next version.