Technicals

SDL3 game (no game engine used)

• Ultra Lightweight
  • C++20
  • SDL3
  • tmxlite
  • nlohmann
  • plf
  • Built with memory-safety and modern C++ conventions in mind
• plf
  • plf::colony is a high-performance container optimized for frequent insertion and erasure without iterator invalidation
  • manages memory in grouped blocks to minimize fragmentation and supports efficient "pruning" of inactive or removed elements without costly reallocations
• NPC Tasks
  • NPCs pull from one task-list
  • If multiple gardens are clearly separated, NPCs will each work a different garden
• Particles
  • various particles deploy on player/plant-actions
  • bees are simply particles
  • particles intelligently diminish in quantity when large amounts of tiles are deploying particles at the same time
• Rendering
  • Only data that is on-screen and adjacent to on-screen tiles is processed for render
  • Render is dynamically snapped so that walking is smooth across multiple zooms