Items Completed
- #26 - A little flashiness on the title screen
- #30 - graphics for characters/monsters
- #11 - AI that moves towards player
- #65 - Items can be “cloned”
- #29 - Items can be picked up on the map
- #24 - Music to title screen
- #31 - graphic for health kit/items
- #64 - Items are consumed on use
- #66 - Terrain is defined in data folder
Graphics, Flashiness, and Music
At an early stage, I don’t want to make things too polished. It’s too early and many things could change. But I did want to start giving more character to the game. Adding some more visual ideas will help guide the project to having the kind of character and theme that I want.
--
local starField = love.graphics.newParticleSystem(Image.load("assets/graphics/particles/circle.png"))
starField:setParticleLifetime(2, 5) -- Particles live at least 2s and at most 5s.
starField:setEmissionRate(25)
starField:setSizes(0.05, 0.1)
starField:setSizeVariation(0.5)
starField:setLinearAcceleration(-220, -220, 220, 220) -- Random movement in all directions.
starField:setColors(c[1], c[2], c[3], 1, c[1], c[2], c[3], 0)
starField:setEmissionArea("borderrectangle", 50, 50)
starField:setTangentialAcceleration(10, 100)
events.beforeUpdate:add(function()
local dt = love.timer.getDelta()
starField:update(dt)
end)
Nothing fancy here, but if you are curious about setting up a particle system in Love2D. This just gives some moving bits on the title screen. It’s not quite to starfield settings but it feels ok. Definitely an improvement. I also added a few images this release for the character, the aliens, and health packs on the ground. While simple they just add a bit of character.
Most importantly, it highlights the work necessary to get graphics rendering properly. Currently, in
game/ui/widgets/combat_map.lua there is a cluster of functions and routines to draw the objects and it
is not easily extendable. I’ve added Issue 71 to track
work necessary to improve this.
Music
I also took some time to put together a brief track for the title screen. It was a lot of fun to do some research on various soundtracks and albums.
Character AI
-- game/rules/enemy/actions/check_spawn_enemylua
local aiRoutines = {
randomMove = require "game.rules.enemy.ai.random_movement"
require "game.rules.enemy.ai.move_towards_player",
require "game.rules.enemy.ai.random_movement"
}
local tables = require "moonpie.tables"
local randomChance = 2
return function(spawner)
return function(dispatch)
local check = love.math.random(100)
if check < randomChance then
dispatch(Character.actions.add(
Character.create {
x = spawner.x,
y = spawner.y,
isEnemy = true,
ai = tables.pickRandom(aiRoutines)
}
))
end
end
end
Added a new AI that moves directly towards the character. Monsters are created with a random AI module attached. This gives a different interaction with the aliens to make the game feel a bit more interesting. It also opens the possibility to code up some more complex AI interactions.
Improvement to Items
Items went through the biggest change in this past week.
- Items can be
cloned. This creates a duplicate copy of an item that can be added to the game. - Items can be placed on the map. The character can pick them up and add these items to the inventory.
- Items that are used are consumed from the inventory and removed from the game.
Final Stats
- 68 Files Update
- 867 Additions
- 207 Deletions
- 97.21% Code Coverage
Code coverage has an error where it’s reporting on missing lines from external libraries that started a few builds ago. This is the code coverage from the game folder.
