Robot Factory Prototype v0.1

Hi everyone!

As of today I've uploaded the first build of the project I'm currently working on. Robot Factory (working  title, honest) is intended to be a light puzzle game that makes use of simple programming concepts to allow users to navigate a robot through mazes. The idea is that it will reward logical and procedural problem solving and perhaps in the process teach non-programmers how to approach solving these kinds of problems.

I actually attempted this idea once before as my final university project, and made a reasonable amount of progress towards a solid technical implementation of the programming interface. However, I've been working as a software engineer for the last two years and have learnt a lot in that time, so I've decided to try the project again from scratch with the benefit of my more recent experience. I have been working on this rebooted version since the 6th of June 2018.

So as to not go insane by immediately retreading all of the same ground as before, I've actually begun with implementing a level editor. This has allowed me to iterate upon the data structures that will form the world design in a way that facilitates user created puzzles from the beginning (this was an important goal for me) as well as avoiding having two different implementations for how levels will be loaded. My intention is to use the level editor I've built to build all of the levels that end up being included in the game - this should mean that the level editor is more stable, and that the levels are all loaded in a single unified way.

The implementation is very barebones at the moment - there is a menu with some video settings and autosave settings for the level editor, as well as the ability to place walls in the editor, save and load levels, change the size of the levels, and an undo/redo functionality including Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y support. I'm mainly using this as a way to log my progress, both as a motivational thing, and for the benefit of anyone that might be interested. If you have stumbled onto this by chance, any feedback or suggestions are absolutely welcomed.