Things are now on fire and can explode.

I can command my monsters to assault me with brightly colored balls!

Mahahahaha!

This AIMaster class is trickier than I originally thought. Yet another glorious example of how work tends to expand exponentially.

Working on an AIMaster class. This class will essentially be another unit on the playing ground, but it has the unique job of giving the other units under it's authority orders. Upon death of the AIMaster all units revert to their default behavior, which typically makes taking out the monsters easier.

It's official. My monsters can now surround me and proceed to beat me to a pulp.

An unexpected side-effect was that in the midst of their flailing at me, they beat each other to a pulp as well.

Friendly fire ftw

yay, problems fixed in the AIChase code. I can (in theory because I feel miserable and would rather go home than test it) make a group of monsters that surround the player.

Trying to implement a crude (?) AI system.

Effectively, the various objects will add AIModule subclasses to a vector of AIModules, and each module will take some action each time. For instance, the AIChase module chases a target and tries to get to a certain spot around them. The AIAttack module waits until the target is within range and attacks.

Looks like it might be working so far, although AIChase seems to not want to get on the right side of the target.

The player class has been brought in line with how everything is supposed to work. It's working much better now that it's using the same central update function as everything else, instead of just pretending to.

I have got to be more careful with throwing the virtual keyword around.

Enemies can die now. Code has been restructured so it's better and stuff, primarily to allow subclasses of the basic arch-type to be customized more easily.

In a surprising turn of events, things seem to be working better now. Two entities can now bash on one another and actually effect each other. Combos seem to work properly now. Universe is clearly smiling on me, although for how time will only tell. Running strikes seem to work now as well, although they need to be aligned to the time-passed instead of the speed of the cpu.

Still fighting the ground handling. Not sure what went wrong, or where, but I've restarted with a new (simpler) approach. Still having some problems though, and heavily considering putting it on the backburner in favor of working on the combat system.