Rocket Mouse v0.0.6

[Xcmd]

This was fun, for a while. I hope you find inspiration to make a game from this tech demo . (Idea: what if you need to dodge all kinds of space junk to safely make it to the top? You know, abandoned satellites, stages from old rockets, that sort of junk.)

Might be fun, although I'd have to get a better understanding of the collision system for the physics engine. I'm going to look it over more thoroughly today and see if I can get a better understanding of it.

[qubodup]

Suggestions:
1. auto-place rocket at start position after loosing or winning (no restart button required) and simply show the old score until button is pressed (which will start new game)

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2. put fuel info inside rocket as colored bars with height depending on fuel level. use roof, not floor (otherwise fuel bar will be gone though there is a little fuel left)
3. use flame image/animation for indicating active booster
4. put scores counter into rocket (not sure why, probably since eyes are on fuel bars anyway and to integrate the scores counter)

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[Xcmd]

Suggestions:
1. auto-place rocket at start position after loosing or winning (no restart button required) and simply show the old score until button is pressed (which will start new game)

bamb.png

2. put fuel info inside rocket as colored bars with height depending on fuel level. use roof, not floor (otherwise fuel bar will be gone though there is a little fuel left)
3. use flame image/animation for indicating active booster
4. put scores counter into rocket (not sure why, probably since eyes are on fuel bars anyway and to integrate the scores counter)

anthing copyable in this post is public domain/cc0

That all looks like great suggestions. I'll get on that just as soon as I figure out how to make this into an actual game. Right now it's just a tech demo...

[Xcmd]

The next thing I'm hoping to incorporate... well... take a look:

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math.randomseed( os.time() )

function load()
	rocks = {}
	rockShapes = {}
	rockCount = 0
	
	theWorld = love.physics.newWorld(800, 600)
	
	rockCount = 64
	
	for x = 1,rockCount,1 do
		rocks[x] = love.physics.newBody(theWorld, math.floor(math.random(800)), math.floor(math.random(600)))
		rockShapes[x] = love.physics.newCircleShape(rocks[x], math.floor(math.random(16)))
	end
end

function update( dt )
	theWorld:update(dt)
end

function draw()
	for a,x in pairs(rockShapes) do
		love.graphics.circle(1, rocks[a]:getX(), rocks[a]:getY(), rockShapes[a]:getRadius())
	end
end

function keypressed( key )
	if key == love.key_space then
		for x = 1,rockCount,1 do
			rocks[x]:applyImpulse(100 - math.floor(math.random(0, 200)), 100 - math.floor(math.random(0, 200)))
		end
	end
end

I didn't splice it into it's own .love file for the very simple reason that, honestly, I didn't want to. Right now 64 is far too many for the purposes of this measly thing, but I was thinking that something like this might... spice things up, eh? Any opinions?

[Robin]

Oh, this is great! I added this to the update() function:

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   for a,x in pairs(rockShapes) do
      rocks[a]:setX(rocks[a]:getX() % 800)
      rocks[a]:setY(rocks[a]:getY() % 600)
   end

Because all the rocks would fly off-screen after a while, and I thought that was a bit boring .

[Xcmd]

Nice! I have no idea what that's doing but I like it.

[Robin]

Nice! I have no idea what that's doing but I like it.

Not? It makes sure the rocks stay on screen by modulus: 801 % 800 ==> 1, so the rocks wrap, just like in Astroids.

[Xcmd]

I figured, but I'm not familiar with the % and what it does in Lua's math functions. New version up.

[Robin]

The rocks add a challenge, but without gravity, it's too simple. You could manually apply force to the player's ship, or add something else that makes it harder -- I don't know what though.

I figured, but I'm not familiar with the % and what it does in Lua's math functions.

Well, you figured it right.

[ljdp]

Make it a scrolling game. have power ups:
Speed up
Slow down
Slow rate gun
Fast rate gun
Blast

Have the base speed get faster and faster too.