I had a productive evening working on Electric Organ. Firstly I implemented an animated main menu. I’m spending a lot of time up front working on aesthetics as I find that if the game is pretty I’m more motivated to work on it later in the week. Hopefully there’s enough time to implement all the mechanics I have planned.

See the animation along with the music on youtube.

I mostly spent the day working on dynamically-generated synthesizer music. There are currently two songs - one for the main menu and another that plays during levels. If I get time I will add more.

It’s the end of day 1 of 7DRL2024. So far I’ve got a level generator for an area of ruined city and basic graphics and lighting:

While working on this I fixed a very longstanding bug in my lighting system that caused lights to be too bright near their sources and to drop off with harsh steps rather than a smooth gradient.

This page will list pinouts of some electronic components I commonly find myself using, as well as some notes on using them that might not be obvious from reading the datasheets.