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[SweptThrone]

Week of September 14, 2026

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This was the first week I've worked on Tale of Flocksworth every day, and I managed to get a fair bit done.

The attached image shows many things:

• Top left:  A graveyard.  The path is "faded" around the edges and each grave has a random texture from a sheet.
  
• Top right:  A Goldenvale camp.  The tent can be opened, closed, and entered, although the interior is not finished.  The flags around the camp are new double-wide, double-tall props.
  
• Bottom left:  A shack.  Currently just a fully random house in the middle of a Poi zone.
  
• Bottom right:  A forest with new double-wide tree textures, which was intended to show off Z-index randomization, but every pair of overlapping trees appears to be overlapping the same way.  At least it's opposite to how they're generated, so you know something's getting done!
  

But I did plenty more, so I'm just gonna shotgun it out in this list in the order I wrote it down:

• Set up an early version of graveyard spawning (shown above).
  
• Set up an even earlier version of shack spawning (shown above).
  
• Fixed a bug where small houses would have an infinite interior width.
  
• Fixed a misplaced door bug caused by fixing the infinite interior bug.
  
• Added a check to prevent Poi pieces from spawning within towns.
  
• Rewrote the way I spawn structures to allow myself to spawn more than houses.
  
• Added tents (shown above) with unique tent doors and placeholder interiors.
  
• Scaled and randomized the Z-index of all entities to allow them to have a random offset to look less uniform when overlapping (shown above).
  
• Rewrote the way I spawn doors to include more materials than house materials.
  
• Rewrote the way I handle props with sprite sheets to allow myself to apply sprites of any sizes to props easily.
  
• Made entity positioning consistent.  Some entities were top-left-based but others were center-based for some reason.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Z-index of props to calculate incorrectly.
  
• Fixed a memory leak caused by panels not cleaning up their entity prototypes.
  

I intend to continue working daily, as I have a book to fill!