Restarting Codavore

For anyone whose following Codavore, a game for learning C#, the repo was lost, so I'm restarting it from scratch.

I backed up everything to a separate HDD and I've been using a private GitHub for storing all the code on that project. I assumed I was safe when I reconfigured my dev station to RAID 10, But when I tried to restore content from the back up drive, it was corrupt. No readable partition. I purchased a recovery tool, and was able to recover some of the smaller files, but overall, the project was lost. Ok, I thought, I've got GitHub.

Or so I thought. Apparently, it had been several months since the last commit was actually pushed. :( I could have sworn I was doing everything correctly, but with my backup destroyed, there was also no way to validate why the commits had stopped. I had been checking in updates several times a week. I had generated a new branch for this, but the branch was not online. :(

I'm still motivated enough on this game to resurrect it from (near) scratch. I still have all the assets I bought, I still have my architecture slides and design work. Plus, thanks to Jensine (assisting on UI), we have a starting menu concept that should work really well for the game. I'm hoping to start sharing content again soon.

Moral of the story: Backup and verify. Below is a concept image of the new starting menu. Literally code commented out, with enough hint to get hopefully get the user started. Despite the test text below, I do plan on having the user start by controlling the player, in a room with only access to a computer, where they will find something similar to this.