Eggerworld

Hey check this out: Lolo is now joined by Medusa, Don, Alma, Skull, and Leeper! There are also sparse implementations for trees, rocks, water, and lava. Technically the walls are also their own tiles, which looked strange in previous screenshots on this blog because the top row of walls was thicker than it should have been. That, too, has been solved. We’re pretty close to supporting for-real actual no-joke puzzles! Whew, this one took a long time because I was out of commission with both covid and Lyme disease back-to-back. But we’ve made a buttload of progress to share in the next few posts!

Enemy AI is hard. I had us start with Medusa and Don Medusa because their movement is so straightforward. I can honestly say without hyperbole that I believe every other enemy's AI is more complicated.

I love the Eggerland series, and it is a darn shame that there hasn’t been any official update to the series in more than 20 years. Lolo and Lala continue to exist in some small way in the Kirby universe as Lololo and Lalala, but they’ve strayed far from their roots as masters of puzzles. The Adventures of Lolo appeared on the Nintendo Switch Online NES library, but at this point I can solve all those puzzles in my sleep. I guess it’s up to the fans to keep the series alive. The love is still there, even if HAL has moved on. Some people share Eggerland for Windows 95 puzzles by exporting them and importing them as text files, but there could be a better solution in the current age. And there totally should be one! With the advent of services like Super Mario Maker and with the ease of access to tools like Amazon AWS, it seems like a no-brainer to me that something Mario Maker-esque is totally possible for Eggerland. Look, I’m sure this was acceptable in 1996, but we deserve better now...

Who wakes up one day and decides to write a video game into existence?

  Look at him all walking around like he's da boss. Lolo has movement in the puzzle room, and it feels just like the Adventures of Lolo NES games.

When we last met, we talked about implementing Medusa, who freezes our hero in place on line of sight:

Medusas are a staple of the Eggerland and Adventures of Lolo series, waiting stoically for Lolo to stroll into their gaze. Our mission is simple: when Lolo walks into the same horizontal or vertical as a Medusa, Lolo instantly turns to stone, a jarring sound jump-scares the player, and Lolo gets assailed by a wave of snakes . Medusas can catch Lolo through trees and over water but not through rocks or Emerald Frames, so the player can use rocks and Emerald Frames for cover.