Devlog #1.7: We’ve Reached the Peak!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another devlog. I’m happy to announce that my game engine, Olympus, is finally finished! Here’s what I added.

Sound

This part took about 1 - 2 hours to implement. Because the game engine is a 16-bit game engine, this means that we can only play sounds that are 16-bit. You can create your own sounds using the game engine, but you can also upload your own sounds. The program works by converting your sounds into a 16-bit audio that the game engine can render.

Sprite Editor

This part took foreverrrrr. Basically, instead of manually typing out sprites for your game, I wanted a editor where you could draw the sprites and then export them. This took forever because I didn’t know how to export your sprites into actual array code that would turn into a sprite. However, I was able to just reuse my code that render sprites from a list into the sprite editor and add functionality that would turn the blank spaces in the canvas into a ‘.’ (blank space) and all the squares that are drawn into an ‘x’ (the actual sprite pixels). I was also able to add saving and onion skinning.

What’s Next?

I’ll be turning Olympus into a Python library so everyone can install it. Then, I will ship the project. See you next time!