24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine
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24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine
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#2The examples are cute and gave me a "graphing calculator game" vibe :)
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#3I love artificial constraints like this. Really forces you to innovate
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#4tl;dr A javascript framework with a canvas output of 24x24 grid of dots. These dots can adopt nine distinct colors. Default input is arrow keys or mouse click on one of the dots. Includes a short eight section tutorial and api doc for two classes (game, gameconfig) and two enumerations (color, direction). Has example games for snake and 'skiiing' (wall avoidance on a linear path).
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#5Nice! I think you could do a port of the classic Milton Bradley board game "You sunk my Battleship!" with this ;)
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#6Is importing P5 a requirement for this engine to work? I know “minimal” can mean a lot of things to different people, but I don’t think it P5 adds much that you couldn’t trivially do without it in this case, and by stripping that dependency away you’d be able to make a very strong case for this being an ultra minimal engine.
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#7I feel like, rather than having no sound at all, the ability to output a PC-speaker-like beep (i.e. turn on/off a fixed-frequency, fixed-amplitude square wave channel) might be nice. No parameters because otherwise you might get distracted trying to trick it into sounding vaguely musical ;)
I’ve also always wanted to see something like this but with emoji for the “graphics.” (Emoji are, after all, the standard graphics resource pack of our era—like DOS box-drawing characters were for the 80s.) Maybe stick them as labels on a grid of buttons, resulting in a similar look to Chip’s Challenge.
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#8I just love it. I can’t wait to make a bunch of toys with this.
I do think some very primitive sounds might be a good option. Don’t even use files. Just use the AudioContext and provide an enumeration of a couple beeps and boops. And I 100% support if the answer to this is “avoiding scope creep”
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#9Nice! I think you could do a port of the classic Milton Bradley board game "You sunk my Battleship!" with this ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
Interesting that you say this. I am thinking of running a python course online, and have programmed a 200-line battleship game with TkInter, since I think it is game that is engaging even when you play against a fairly straightforward computer adversary. I had a lot of fun playing my own game, even when programming it was so simple.
Re: 24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine
#10tl;dr A javascript framework with a canvas output of 24x24 grid of dots. These dots can adopt nine distinct colors. Default input is arrow keys or mouse click on one of the dots. Includes a short eight section tutorial and api doc for two classes (game, gameconfig) and two enumerations (color, direction). Has example games for snake and 'skiiing' (wall avoidance on a linear path).
Tldr is appreciated thanks