7DRL: Building an Engine — A Room

The annual 7DRL — 7 Day Rogue-Like — game hackathon is next month. I did this a really long time ago, but I didn’t know at that time that I could start the competition with a game engine already programmed. By the time I finished the engine, I only had a day left to build some sort of game on it. This time, I’m building the engine ahead of time.

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Once, I had a life. Now, I have Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.

I haven’t played the sequel to my favorite Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy Tactics, in ages. And even when I played it before, back in the Gameboy Advance days, I never got that far into it — the tiny screen just didn’t work for JRPGs for me. So I spent a lot of money getting a Nintendo DS — the one with the GBA slot — and a complete copy of the game, and decided to give it another shot.

I didn’t know what I was getting into.

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