DevBlog #5: Creating Our First Universe

09 Dec 2023 - Christopher Loyd

• The NewGameScreen has been setup, that can now be accessed from the TitleScreen.
• A reusable “back” button was designed that can be used to take the player back to the TitleScreen from various other screens when they so wish to.
• The “quit” button was developed and tested.
• Players are asked when setting up a new game what they want their universe to be called. This is now persistently saved to the database, thus allowing for our first (albeit useless) universe to be created: Camelot! (shown in the picture below)
• Players creating a new universe will now have the universe name hashed. This hash is persistently saved and is being used as the seed for the primary RNG.
• RNG save state is being stored along with the universe creation and the RNG current sequence number can be restored with the saved state.

• Testing on all of this to ensure the same universe name will generate the same sequence of pseudo-random numbers has been completed.