Color factory [WIP]

[ljdp]

About Color factory
Control two waldos, rotating mechanical arms, by a sequence of commands. Your job is to take tins of paint, mix them, box them and then finally dispatch them. This game will challenge your computing mind and lateral thinking.

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I plan to make this commercially for the iPad, i've used love to quickly prototype the game and would love your feedback.
This is inspired by the games of Zachtronics Industries such as Spacechem and The codex, it's also inspired by the concept of turing machines. The current version should be stable, but it is by no means complete.

Custom levels and saves
There is not a ingame level editor yet, but it's rather simple to make a level.
Once you've ran the game once goto the save directory.

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Love\ or %appdata%\Love\
Windows Vista and 7: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\LOVE or %appdata%\Love\
Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/love/ or ~/.local/share/love/
mac: /Users/user/Library/Application Support/LOVE/

There is a template file called customtemplate.lua, it will tell you how to create custom levels.
You can also find the save files there if you wish to post your solutions.

[bartbes]

Seems to fail packaged up, when unzipped I get this instead:

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Error: ./util/tween.lua:363: dt must be a positive number

[ljdp]

I downloaded it and tried, works for me under mac osx 10.6.7.
What OS are you using?
should be an easy fix with math.abs.

Edit: fix with v0.3

[bartbes]

I tried this on linux with both 0.7.2 and the in-development 0.8.0. As for the math.abs fix, no amount of math.abs and tonumber() can prevent dt from being 0, for some reason.

[ljdp]

I tried this on linux with both 0.7.2 and the in-development 0.8.0. As for the math.abs fix, no amount of math.abs and tonumber() can prevent dt from being 0, for some reason.

Well i've just removed the assert for dt > 0, not sure how that's going to effect the tween lib, i got it off the wiki.

Edit: duh, left an absolute path in there I put in due to a quirk in textmate, fixed up in v0.4

[bartbes]

I've finished up to 'The Boxer', though I noticed a lack of a winning screen. It was a good game, but then I got stuck, I'm pretty sure The Boxer 2 is physically impossible!

[ljdp]

I've personally solved all but the one that specifically states it's unsolvable.
Yeah there's no save, load, win or loose screens yet.

[bartbes]

But how? The waldos don't seem to have the reach in the boxer 2.

EDIT: Oh.. you could've told me they were draggable..

[ljdp]

But how? The waldos don't seem to have the reach in the boxer 2.

EDIT: Oh.. you could've told me they were draggable..

Lol oops. Yeah, I see how easy it is to oversee some important information, like I said a tutorial is in the works.
Most other objects are draggable too, apart from the input and outputs.

[Taehl]

Doesn't work for me. main.lua: 7: module 'util.middleclass.init' not found