Posts

• Of Sheep and Movement

  306 days ago Ycros wrote:

  A turn-based platformer sounded really easy at first. Turns out that with some of the movements and restrictions on movements that we wanted to support, writing an algorithm proves to be very hard.

  You see, in our game you're dealing with a bunch of sheep that you control - and as sheep can't occupy the same space (they stack and collide), coming up with rock-solid code for movement becomes a hard problem. Ideally, you want to move all the sheep in lock-step, however in code you can't do this, you have to move each sheep one by one.

  One of the problems we encountered early on was this: if a sheep tries to move, and detects a collision with another sheep, it's not just a simple case of stopping there. The sheep it collided with, mightn't have moved yet, so might not be there anymore when it does move.

  There are a whole bunch of problems to do with jumping and multiple sheep collisions as well.

  We're up to 60 unit tests, and they're all just for the movement code. Only 2 failures at the moment, and we're trying to decide whether they represent features or actual bugs. Also, we currently have 1581 lines of Python code (not including blank lines), though most of that is the tests.

• Moar Tests [ view post ]

  311 days ago Ycros wrote:

  Finally fixed some strange corner cases in the movement logic. We're up to 47 unit tests, wheee.

• Progress, Progress... [ view post ]

  312 days ago Ycros wrote:

  Core of the game is done, just some tweaks to the movement animations and maybe adding in some extra gameplay elements left.

  Then there's possibly getting some better art, throwing in some music and sounds, and cranking out levels, levels, levels! Also, a menu and scoring system would be good.

  Making good levels are probably going to be the hardest part in all of this.

Comments

• 296 days ago MikeM wrote:

  I was really enjoying this, but then just as it started to get tricky, it ended! Nice stuff, though.

• 306 days ago Ycros wrote:

  We will when we get some more levels/menus/gameplay features done.

• 309 days ago Simon wrote:

  Give us more screenies pls!

Team Members

• Foone (314 days ago)
• Ycros (312 days ago)

Team Development Log

• Ycros has uploaded a new file to team TeaMA. (Sheep Dreams Windows (v2 - bugfix for some ATI cards)) (296 days ago)
• Ycros has uploaded a new file to team TeaMA. (Sheep Dreams Windows Version) (297 days ago)
• Ycros has uploaded a new file to team TeaMA. (SheepDreams OSX (win32 version coming soon)) (297 days ago)
• Ycros has uploaded a new file to team TeaMA. (SheepDreams Python Source) (297 days ago)
• Ycros has uploaded a new file to team TeaMA. (SheepDreams 0.1 OSX) (297 days ago)
• Ycros has uploaded a new file to team TeaMA. (SheepDreams 0.1 Source) (297 days ago)
• Foone has uploaded a new screenshot to team TeaMA. (we've got lava) (298 days ago)
• Ycros has posted a new blog on team TeaMA. (Of Sheep and Movement) (306 days ago)
• Ycros has posted a new comment on team TeaMA. (306 days ago)
• Ycros has posted a new blog on team TeaMA. (Moar Tests) (311 days ago)
• Ycros has posted a new blog on team TeaMA. (Progress, Progress...) (312 days ago)
• Ycros has uploaded a new screenshot to team TeaMA. (First Screenshot. Game still needs some work.) (312 days ago)
• Ycros has joined team TeaMA. (312 days ago)
• Foone has created team TeaMA. (314 days ago)

Todo List

Files

• 296 days ago SheepDreams v2.zip [FINAL] - Sheep Dreams Windows (v2 - bugfix for some ATI cards)
• 297 days ago sheepdreams-osx.zip [FINAL] - SheepDreams OSX (win32 version coming soon)
• 297 days ago sheepdreams-src.tar.bz2 [FINAL] - SheepDreams Python Source