Weekend Warriors

After a weekend of scrounged coding time, the Entities in my sandbox have been introduced to the concept of violent death. Spawning on demand now from a teleport platform, they run around shooting (very) crude Projectiles at each other. They have Hearts with health levels that take damage from the projectiles. When they're hurt, they flash and bleed Decals, and when they die, their corpse hangs about a while before fading out. Avatars can also interact with the environment as well, now. When they sense there is something they can do, it is reflected in a GUI and the player can trigger the available action. In the first image below, the control panel for the teleport platform enables the active Avatar to Spawn a new Rufus Entity.

What's next?
Environmental interactivity leads on to things like triggered doors, remote weapons, and so on. Life & death is a basic for most action, and distincting Weapons are a next step down that path. Level transitions still need to be done some point soon, too, and I've got some sandbox interface improvements in mind, such as mouse zoom and scrolling. Vehicle mounting is most likely next, though, since it's something I've thought about plenty, but not actually tried before, and is also vaguely complex, so I'm interested to see how that progresses.