This post is included for posterity. It was originally posted in my now-defunct Discord server. Refactored everything to make sense. I am such a troglodyte, this is full of facepalms. Print UI every frame for the duration of the frame, instead of once per completed second since the game began (Tock). This means, for example, that if the player moves into danger, they don't need to wait for the next second to find out. This also allowed me to take out the initial instance I printed the time so that something was on screen when the game starts before the first Tock. I did discover that I only messed up the display/outcome of these checks, not the timing of the checks themselves, but correcting this was a good principle to learn for when more meaningful things happen, such as playing a death animation. Use Truncate instead of Round to display the Clock. This was causing my time to display half a second off. Don't add a second to the current Time of Day to try to account for the fa...

This post is included for posterity. It was originally posted in my now-defunct Discord server. I managed to get a rudimentary day/night cycle set up along with a "safe zone" and therefore a lose/survive condition. Only trouble is, it was incredibly unreliable due to fluctuations in frame time meaning my messages were missing the 1-per-second cutoff. It wasn't until days later I realized I should only be using the rounded output for the display - all my other checks should be done every frame. Next time I work on it I'll take all of the game state checks out of the rounded clock and if it all works as intended I can develop the idea further: Going from binary death to a gradient of danger. I would also like to set up the lighting to the Time of Day and I want to simulate the spherical nature of the planet by introducing a new scalar that tracks where on the "globe" they are- expediting or delaying the dawn. 

This post is included for posterity. It was originally posted in my now-defunct Discord server. I'm finally trying to go about things sensibly and not expect so much from myself that I drain all fun from everything I do. Been prototyping a game concept I have in Unreal Engine. Made some good progress learning from existing C++ classes from the demo content yesterday and managed to get the camera to behave how I wanted. The concept was to be running away from the dawn (microplanets). A perma-death survival game, of sorts. The sun, and the hubbub that is brought with it, is scary. The character prefers (can only live in) the serene solitude of night. Perhaps the goal could be to have some "near misses" that help character to come to eventually terms with daylight. How arty and original. My idea turned out to be **** on a fundamental level really. Locking the camera to one direction gave nothing for the mouse to do apart from click. The game loop itself was basically an auto...