Hey, that ain't right.

Still plugging away, although some friends at work convinced me to play some WoW again to prepare for the impending goblin invasion, so progress has been a little stilted.  At any rate, I've managed to make some headway on a few important additions, the easiest and yet most work creating of which was writing a proper logging system.

In the past I only had in-game logging meant for game messages that I was hijacking for specific errors/warnings I cared about (syntax errors when loading data files mostly).  Given that I didn't want to flood the game UI with a bunch of other information it tended to be very specific and not terribly helpful - but now I've added a log which goes straight to disk, which has given me freedom to spread little Logf()'s all throughout my code base.  Adding some to a few key places exposed some interesting bugs that would have surely gone undetected for quite some time.

- All objects were doing duplicate work from a copy and paste error in my object definition macros (gg virtual destructors, you win).
- Level objects were being added to the tickable list twice which caused double game updates.  I don't have much in game animation yet, so it's not really noticeable at this stage but it would have been annoying once I started implementing projectiles and other effects.
- Object instance counts were incrementing on one type (correct) and decrementing on another (incorrect) for dynamic types.  Fortunately the right counter was being incremented, so I wasn't seeing any funky object naming (or name clashing) yet, but again this would inevitably cause pain at some point.

Aside from that fun I've written most of the framework I think I'll need to save level instances.  I've already added the logic to link up levels correctly to each other (stairs up match the stairs down on the other side for example) and left the hooks needed to handle other entities transitioning across levels once I get to that feature.  Hopefully in another 100 lines of code or so this game will finally be susceptible to save scumming!