Dev log week 35

This week has seen the following development:

Item pickup and drop
I added in proper item pickup and drop to the terrain. This allows the player to drop items to a stack of items on each tile. Also, any items in a stack on the ground can be picked up and placed into the players inventory.

Tile dig and fill
I added in the ability to dig up a tile (dirt, grass, sand, coal, rock) and have a resource of that type placed into the players inventory. I also added in the ability to fill a hole in the terrain with a resource from the players inventory.

Dig and fill now allows the player to reform the terrain. Once I add in more resource types, smelting, crafting etc, it will be possible to build castles, houses, structures, as well as flatten out land.

Content Editor
Possibly the best development activity this week. I created a standalone editor for content:

Content is stored in XML format. The editor allows me to read in the XML file, and easily add and remove new content.

As you can see in the screenshot, content is listed in the left pane, and its properties are editable in the right pane. The save button simply updates the treeview with the content model changes. The file menu is for opening and saving content XML files.

So, content creation will be extremely quick.