No Game Engine Game Dev: Word Sleuth 058: Putting legs and books on a table, then hanging a banner

Streamed on 2024-10-01 (https://www.twitch.tv/thediscouragerofhesitancy)

Game Engines are for sissies!

I stared down the barrel of putting legs on a table and realized the structure of my layout script wasn't conducive to this kind of activity. So it was refactor time. I broke out some functions and that let me lay out the more complex table shape with greater ease. We then backported the LetterBlock and Chalkboard layout scripts to use the same functions. Bookshelf will have to wait, but I think I have to rework the bookshelf anyways, based on the expected interactions with the books on the bookshelf.

Then I added some scripts to layout the Notebooks. There are four of them in different colors and they lay nicely on the Table. I don't have an "open" version for them yet, but I also don't know if I want to animate the opening and closing in a sprite animation, so that will have to wait.

Lastly, I drew up a new banner and picked a marker font. Things are really starting to come together.