Working on my September contest entry. Not completely sure where I am going with it, but I managed to make a nice maze generator that creates Pac-Man like mazes. Here are a few examples.
Oo er, that's working really well, nice one :) - auto maze generation is not as easy some may think.
Pretty cool. I've tried and failed miserably to do something like this before. What language have you written it in and are you going to share it?
I think I know where I'm going with this now. Creating a game where you must blast all the mines in the maze with your ship without colliding into any of them. I have an early demo here to show off the maze creation abilities :)http://www.tomtoad.com/monkey2/mineblast/MineBlast.html (http://www.tomtoad.com/monkey2/mineblast/MineBlast.html), the mines move around randomly and the ship doesn't move at all. The only control available is pressing space to create a new maze.
As for releasing the maze creation code, I will probably do that after the contest is over.
Cool stuff 8)
Now you can steer the ship with WASD and fire with space. Generate a new maze with N. No collision detection nor AI yet.
http://www.tomtoad.com/monkey2/mineblast/MineBlast.html (http://www.tomtoad.com/monkey2/mineblast/MineBlast.html)
Great looking stuff :)
After a few weeks away from this due to illness, I am now giving a big, last minute push to finish as much of it as I can. I now have the basics done, movement, explosions, collisions, etc.. Just need to add sound, scoring, and some polish. If I have time, I want to add bonuses and upgrades.
To play, there are 6 spawn points in each maze that spawn mines. You need to destroy all 6 spawn poins and all mines to complete the level. You get 3 lives to do so.
http://www.tomtoad.com/monkey2/mineblast/MineBlast.html
It's quite nice...very nice....if it's too hard to have music it would be nice to have some explosion sounds and little laser pew pew sounds....
Good work mate, and wish you well on your recovery.
Grrr. Added some audio and a background music track. Works just fine when I run it from Ted2go, but seems to fail when uploaded to my site and ran from there.
Alright, got it to work. Seems that Chrome wants to load some parts from cache even when I try reloading the page. Solution was to open the developers panel and click on disable cache to force a reload. Just right-click the page, select "Inspect", check "Disable Cache", reload page, then everything should work after that.
Added sound and background music to the game. Created a rather crude splash screen as I needed to properly attribute the creator of the background music to use it legally. When I get a main menu together, that will be moved to a "Credits" section.
Now I need to add scoring, a main menu, and a bit of polishing. 2 days left, might be able to finish in time. :)
@Steve Elliott: Thanks for the wishes. I am about 90% recovered now. Doc says I should be 100% in about a week or two. Had a very bad infection in my salivary gland. right side of my neck looked like Jaba the Hut. Could barely open my mouth, had to pry my teeth just to fit a spoonful of soup inside. Was put on a regimen of antibiotics and steroids to get the infection and swelling under control.
A week or 2 sounds like good news despite a horrible experience. :)
Glad to hear you are getting better :)
Cool game, look forward to playing more 8)
Managed to get most of a working game done. Scoring, sound, main menu, etc... It is not completely what I want, but I won't have any more time before the deadline, so this version is the last until after the voting.
Showcase entry: https://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,4950.0.html (https://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,4950.0.html)