AloneAlex

And with a few graphical tweaks, the second ship is ready!
Changes:
- italics and -# small text is now supported!
- you can now add more folders to save your notes to, and choose them with the OS filepicker!
- minor UX and UI changes!
- fixed a couple pesky bugs!

managed to implement a nice folder picker-now you don't need to write the absolute folder path yourself-much easier and better!

Made text align to the left instead of being centered, added checks so that the app doesn't crash if you input a read only directory, fixed a bug where the note previews wouldn't update when switching between notes and made it so when creating a new note, it goes into edit mode and not preview mode (preview is the one where the markdown is rendered!)

Refactored a lot of the code, i turned if/else statements into switch statements as someone pointed out-much more clean imo, turned some functions into extensions of String and moved most views into their own file to make stuff easier to read through. Then I made added a way to add/remove directories, so now you can save your files into multiple folders if you want! I'm not sure if crossui has some sort of file picker, so until i find out, users will have to input the directory path themselves

Finally managed to add some more markdown support-italics and small text!

I might or might not have procrastinated on making the game about procrastination, the irony huh
Anyways i cut some corners but it's ready for shipping!

After hours and hours and hours.... a give up on making a windows build

And that's about it! Music done, sfx done, the game is submitted!

The final level is complete! Only music and sfx are left, and the game's completely ready!

New puzzle element: teleporter! because what's golf without teleportation, amirite

made a new wall type that instantly restarts the level, 3 more levels and the cover image! Oh, and I finally found a good name (Loop was too simple, it was literally the jam's theme), the game is now called Loopy Golf!

some more art updates! (the ball now has a nice trail)
tomorrow i will solely work on adding some more levels and then finishing up the game
it will be rather short, but that's what happens when you only have 2 days!

drew some sprites so that the game isn't JUST basic shapes this time up

And this is the first playtest build, with the first 5 levels. Also did some minor polish (tweening makes for nice bouncy animations, through the code! it's really simple). I'll probably take a break and come back later when i'll have some feedback and fresh ideas

Landed on what i want gameplay-wise
A physics puzzle-pass to the next room in a specific amount of loops

I think I really like where i'm heading!

I have no idea what i'm building exactly yet, but I know what i want the control scheme to be!

so i was trying to set up github actions to automatically build my app for all platforms so i dont need to do it manually, since i dont have a windows or linux machine. i went in, thinking it will be so simple that i didnt even boot up vscode and did it from the github web environment
...
i was so wrong
it took me at least 3 hours to make it work

Made the icon and the release build

And here it is in action!

After a lot of hard work, i managed to make it display bolds reliably (swiftcrossui appears not to support italics unfortunately, so unless i'm mistaken, italics won't be supported)

Thanks to some feedback i realised that markdown support is something super important for a notes app, so I started working on exactly that! Here's an example of all possible headings

The app is now perfectly functioning! You can create notes, delete notes, rename notes, edit notes! What's left to do now is allow the user to edit the folders they can save their notes in, and the app will be completely ready for the first ship!

And now you can also create new notes!

You can now edit your notes! I'll also have to soon add the title changing functionality & obviously, note creation! I already made the backend for most of these, I just got to put them together on the UI side

The main app UI is taking shape! A sidebar that shows all your notes, and the main screen showing the note currently in use!

The first two minigames are 100% complete and working (cleaning the mess, watering the plants)
after that i plan the player to play a short 2d game on the computer, which i haven't gotten around to coding yet... actually, i don't even know what i'll make it be yet 😅
We'll see eventually!

Made a bed 3d model, a mess 3d model (you'll have to clean the mess!) and the first minigame (cleaning the mess ;P)

I made the dialogue system! Then it broke and i had to fix it... and then i made the intro dialogue of the game!

Changed up some code to make sure you're actually close to the plants before watering them, and added some nice royalty free jazz background music (I might change it later on but it's good enough for now)

This time up I wrote some basic logic for watering the plants, created the git repo for the project (I totally forgot to do that! 😅) and I made a watering can 3d model. Here's some gameplay of the player waterin' some plants

Today I made a lot more 3d models! I made a door model, I made the room colors look a bit better, and I tried to make a plant model which took me a lot of time, until I simply decided I'll make it out of cones! And it ended up looking surprisngly good so I'm proud of that

After an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out how to do outlines only to find out that I hadn't read the readme of the package I had first imported, I managed to build this little interaction with the desk! The desk will include a little 2d video game the player will be able to play

Okay so I've made the desk setup of the player :D
the game is about a game developer who is procrastinating on starting their jam game (hmmm sounds familiar?)
I still have to decorate the room and stuff and then I can get on some mechanics

I am planning this game to be story driven-it's also my first 3d game! I made a nice computer asset :)

More work on the backend... AND the frontend! You can now add various locations where your notes are saved!
I will probably make it a proper file picker and not a textfield tho 😅

Quite a lot of changes on the backend! The app now supports multiple directories to save your notes in. Plus, on the backend, creating new notes and saving changes on notes has been implemented. Plus, I built the UI for creating a note, with it even checking wether said note already exists to avoid problems

I set up the note loading backend to load notes in the form of .txt files from a specific directory inside of documents and made a mockup view to show all notes that are found!

The project is all set up (the example code is working just fine) so I'm ready to kick off tomorrow!