Adventures of Barnabus! [T.A.O.T.R.T.W.G.E.]

Davidobot · Post by **Davidobot** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:28 pm

Hello and welcome to yet another game.
This is called T.A.O.T.R.T.W.G.E. which stands for The Adventure of The Red Thing With Green Eyes. I know, it's a long name

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NOPE, BLAST FROM THE PAST!!! It's now renamed to: "Adventures of Barnabus"!

This game uses my lovelyMoon library. Go check it out!

You can call it a Minecraft 2D clone or a Terraria clone or whatever else you want, BUT it is a game on it's own

. I have already started development of the "survival" mode.

Controls:
Move around with W,A,S,D
Place blocks with left-click
Remove blocks by holding right-click
Switch position in the hot-bar using the scroll-wheel or the 1-9 number keys.

Change List (v0.5.5):
Began work on "Survival" part.
No more infinite blocks.
You have a 9 block inventory. (Hot-Bar)
Added ores. (No use yet!)
Re-added the use of number keys.
You need to "break" blocks now.
Began work on v0.6 which will include an inventory and a crafting system.

Change List (v0.5.0):
Collisions for the NPCs.
Added Menu.
Added Intro.
Converted the formating to use my lovelyMoon library.
Began Planning on re-doing the Terrain Generation.
Began Planning on a Saving System

Change List (v0.4.0):
Bug Fixes
Added Water
Added Sand
Added NCPs (Warrior, Trader, Wizard)
Added NCP AI (Kind-of)
Re-Did Cloud Texture
Improved Code
Added scrolling as a must (Sorry laptop users)
Finished Main-Main Menu
Finalised and Tweaked Intro
Re-Did Render Code (Increases FPS by 300)

Screenshots:
"Coming soon...."

Remember to post your comments, queries, bugs and suggestion here.

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10$man · Post by **10$man** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:26 pm

It isn't bad, but there is a few things that could be tweaked up.

Movement, your guy should move by a number that the tile size divides by. This way you don't get that weird thing were your guy is stuck a couple pixels from a block but can't go all the way to it.

What I mean is, suppose your tilesize is 32. Then your guy should move 4px per frame or 2px per frame. Don't have him move 5 px or 3 px.

Also, I can't really tell if your map is randomly generated or not, but randomly generating isn't that hard. Even in 2d, you could use a height map. You could generate just a single line of pixels from a height map and use that. You will get good results, for instance, nice smooth hills, stone is more regular when you get at a certain depth.

One more thing, this is just because it could be neat. If you have clouds that are far away (eg, smaller) and move slower then the ones that are closer (bigger) that would probably look pretty neat!

Davidobot · Post by **Davidobot** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:27 am

10$man wrote:It isn't bad, but there is a few things that could be tweaked up.

Movement, your guy should move by a number that the tile size divides by. This way you don't get that weird thing were your guy is stuck a couple pixels from a block but can't go all the way to it.

What I mean is, suppose your tilesize is 32. Then your guy should move 4px per frame or 2px per frame. Don't have him move 5 px or 3 px.

Also, I can't really tell if your map is randomly generated or not, but randomly generating isn't that hard. Even in 2d, you could use a height map. You could generate just a single line of pixels from a height map and use that. You will get good results, for instance, nice smooth hills, stone is more regular when you get at a certain depth.

One more thing, this is just because it could be neat. If you have clouds that are far away (eg, smaller) and move slower then the ones that are closer (bigger) that would probably look pretty neat!

Added everything except for the height maps, I don't exactly know how to do that.....

10$man · Post by **10$man** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 1:09 pm

Davidobot wrote:
10$man wrote:It isn't bad, but there is a few things that could be tweaked up.

Movement, your guy should move by a number that the tile size divides by. This way you don't get that weird thing were your guy is stuck a couple pixels from a block but can't go all the way to it.

What I mean is, suppose your tilesize is 32. Then your guy should move 4px per frame or 2px per frame. Don't have him move 5 px or 3 px.

Also, I can't really tell if your map is randomly generated or not, but randomly generating isn't that hard. Even in 2d, you could use a height map. You could generate just a single line of pixels from a height map and use that. You will get good results, for instance, nice smooth hills, stone is more regular when you get at a certain depth.

One more thing, this is just because it could be neat. If you have clouds that are far away (eg, smaller) and move slower then the ones that are closer (bigger) that would probably look pretty neat!
Added everything except for the height maps, I don't exactly know how to do that.....

Cool!
Well, a height map is something like this:

Normally that would be used for voxel engines (things like Minecraft, Ace of Spades, Eden) but I am pretty sure it would work to just take one row of those pixels and use the "heights" from those.
To calculate a height, you just extract the colors.
Then you look at one value from the colors (red, green and blue should all be the same).
Now depending on how light or dark the color is, generate a different height!

Pretty simple, and you will get nice terrain results.

rokit boy · Post by **rokit boy** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:41 pm

10$man wrote:
Davidobot wrote:
10$man wrote:It isn't bad, but there is a few things that could be tweaked up.

Movement, your guy should move by a number that the tile size divides by. This way you don't get that weird thing were your guy is stuck a couple pixels from a block but can't go all the way to it.

What I mean is, suppose your tilesize is 32. Then your guy should move 4px per frame or 2px per frame. Don't have him move 5 px or 3 px.

Also, I can't really tell if your map is randomly generated or not, but randomly generating isn't that hard. Even in 2d, you could use a height map. You could generate just a single line of pixels from a height map and use that. You will get good results, for instance, nice smooth hills, stone is more regular when you get at a certain depth.

One more thing, this is just because it could be neat. If you have clouds that are far away (eg, smaller) and move slower then the ones that are closer (bigger) that would probably look pretty neat!
Added everything except for the height maps, I don't exactly know how to do that.....
Cool!
Well, a height map is something like this:

Normally that would be used for voxel engines (things like Minecraft, Ace of Spades, Eden) but I am pretty sure it would work to just take one row of those pixels and use the "heights" from those.
To calculate a height, you just extract the colors.
Then you look at one value from the colors (red, green and blue should all be the same).
Now depending on how light or dark the color is, generate a different height!

Pretty simple, and you will get nice terrain results.

Since it's 2d, it should be 1 pixel high.

Davidobot · Post by **Davidobot** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:35 am

But then it will lose it's random generation part.

Banoticus · Post by **Banoticus** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:41 am

I want to add a scrolling system so that when you scroll up or down it changes the block
Any ideas?

stripwax · Post by **stripwax** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:48 am

Regarding heightmaps: It's really easy to create a randomized height map. One of the standard methods is called a plasma:

Basically (step1) set the four corners of your heightmap to random numbers between min and max (say min=0 and max=255, usually).
Then (step2) split the heightmap into four quadrants (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right) - each quadrant is a quarter size of the whole heightmap. For each quadrant, you'll have one corner already set from step 1. Set the other three corners to the average of the heightmap values on either side, PLUS a bit of random noise. Then split THIS quadrant into four more going back to step2. Repeat until the quadrant is 2x2 or smaller. Make sure the amount of noise you add on each step gets smaller as the size of the quadrants get smaller.

Actually, the first bit of this wikipedia page is probably better worded than the above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-square_algorithm

Gimme a few mins and I'll knock one up in lua..

EDIT - and if you only need 2 dimensions, then you just create an array of WIDTH x 1, and split linearly into 2 subpieces rather than 4 quadrants.

EDIT - plasma done, and posted in its own thread

Petunien · Post by **Petunien** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:36 pm

Banoticus wrote:I want to add a scrolling system so that when you scroll up or down it changes the block
Any ideas?

Maybe something like this?

Code: Select all

function love.load()

	selectedBlock = 1

end

function love.draw()

	love.graphics.print(selectedBlock, 10, 10)

end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)

	if button == "wu" then
		if selectedBlock == 9 then 
			selectedBlock = 1
		else
			selectedBlock = selectedBlock + 1
		end
	elseif button == "wd" then
		if selectedBlock == 1 then 
			selectedBlock = 9
		else
			selectedBlock = selectedBlock - 1
		end
	end
end

coffee · Post by **coffee** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:42 pm

Petunien wrote:

Banoticus wrote:I want to add a scrolling system so that when you scroll up or down it changes the block
Any ideas?

Maybe something like this?

Code: Select all

function love.load()

	selectedBlock = 1

end

function love.draw()

	love.graphics.print(selectedBlock, 10, 10)

end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)

	if button == "wu" then
		if selectedBlock == 9 then 
			selectedBlock = 1
		else
			selectedBlock = selectedBlock + 1
		end
	elseif button == "wd" then
		if selectedBlock == 1 then 
			selectedBlock = 9
		else
			selectedBlock = selectedBlock - 1
		end
	end
end

Maybe it's safer then instead of

Code: Select all

		if selectedBlock == 9 then selectedBlock = 1

do something like

Code: Select all

		if selectedBlock == #blocks then selectedBlock = 1

where is #blocks change for the name of table keeping the blocks of course

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