Spent today working on my Vampire Survivors clone to prepare a new lesson plan for my mentee. Enemies now drop experience orbs on death, and there's a pickup radius that collects them. Well, all it does is destroy the entities, but that's fine too, right?
Making yet another engine is fun and all, but Box2D is gnarly as fuck. I spent all morning figuring out how to make a parent-child relationship with entities and their matrix transforms, only to realize that Box2D can handle this all for you if you attach the new fixture to the parent's body. 🙃
Luckily, these are exactly the kinds of mistakes I want to make myself so that I can tell my mentee what pitfalls to avoid!