beta exhibition & some quests. 8bit game

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lobj10

beta exhibition & some quests. 8bit game

in Programming Questions • 1 year ago

Is a defender game searching for information against twitter. It search active for tweets containing keywords like 2012 and search in those results after END n such. It converts tweets into comets that spawns randomly outside the sketch, aimin at the center..

Your job as starfleet captain commander Buck is to save the earthlings against confusion AND mass destruction.

Achieve this by crashing your spaceship into every comet possible...

It's working but need som few tweaks and a mutch cleaner code.

How do I make the comets "lag" their way towards earth?

(as In old 8 bit "grid"-games and as in;" low frame rate", like the movement of the spaceship in this sketch)

Can i fake it in some kind of way?

Please look it thru and se if you find any superbig mistakes (exept the "press H for help"- loop, that's under construction).

http://speedy.sh/3TsGy/projekt-grupp14-2012.zip

MAIN SKETCH

//import liberaries
import ddf.minim.*;
import ddf.minim.signals.*;
import ddf.minim.analysis.*;
import ddf.minim.effects.*;
PImage gameover;
PImage skull;
PImage jorden;
PImage heart;
import simpleML.*;
int e = 0;
//boolean showComet;
ArrayList kometer = new ArrayList();
int y = 0;
int x = 0;
int douche = 0;
int i1 = 503;
int i2 = 245;
int i3 = 62;
int i = 0;
int rx = 100;
int ry = 50;
int hp = 10;
int kills = 0;
int sqx = 500;
int sqy = 250;
int sqr = 20;
komet k;
PFont Font;
XMLRequest xmlRequest;
int startTime; // for the timer to make request ever N seconds
String html = ""; // String to hold data from request
import ddf.minim.*;
Minim minim;
AudioPlayer groove;
void setup() {
// Music
minim = new Minim(this);
groove = minim.loadFile("test_rymd2.mp3", 512);
groove.loop();
// Creating and starting the request
xmlRequest = new XMLRequest(this, "http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=2012");
xmlRequest.makeRequest();
size(height = 1000, width = 500);
smooth();
//showComet = true;
}
void draw() {
background(0);
ellipse(i1, i2, i3*2, i3*2);
fill(255, 255, 255);
// Every 5 seconds, make a new request
int now = millis();
if (now - startTime > 5000) {
xmlRequest.makeRequest();
println("Making request!");
startTime = now;
}
jorden = loadImage("earth.png"); //Bilden
imageMode(CENTER);
image(jorden, 500, 250);
for (int i = 0; i < kometer.size(); i++) {
komet k = (komet)kometer.get(i);
k.smart();
}
Font = loadFont("PressStartK-25.vlw"); //text corners
textFont(Font, 25);
text(hp, 15, 40);
text("H=help", 835, 485);
text(kills, 150, 40);
// text(kills, 15, 485);
heart = loadImage("heart2.png"); //hp heart
imageMode(CENTER);
image(heart, 90, 29);
skull = loadImage("skull.png"); //hp heart
imageMode(CENTER);
image(skull, 220, 28);
// image(skull, 80, 475);
fill(255, 255, 255);
if (hp < 5) {
fill(255, 255, 0);
}
if (hp < 2) {
fill(255, 0, 0);
}
if (hp < 1) {
gameover = loadImage("gameover.png");
imageMode(CENTER);
image(gameover, 500, 250);
// groove = minim.loadFile("gameover2.mp3", 512);
// groove.loop(0);
}
jorden = loadImage("ship10.png"); //Bilden
imageMode(CENTER);
image(jorden, sqx, sqy);
// ellipse(sqx,sqy,sqr*2,sqr*2);
if (sqx > 980) {
sqx = 980;
}
if (sqy < 20) {
sqy = 20;
}
if (sqx < 20) {
sqx = 20;
}
if (sqy > 480) {
sqy = 480;
}
}
void stop() {
groove.close();
minim.stop();
super.stop();
}
// When the request is complete
void netEvent(XMLRequest ml) {
// Retrieving an array of all XML elements inside "<title*>" tags
String[] headlines = ml.getElementArray("title");
for (int i = 0; i < headlines.length; i++) {
// println(headlines[i]);
}
for (String html: headlines) {
if (html.toLowerCase().contains("end")) {
douche++;
println(douche);
switch ((int) random(4)) {
case 0:
// top edge
k = new komet( random(width), -10 );
break;
case 1:
// right edge
k = new komet( width+10, random(height) );
break;
case 2:
// left edge
k = new komet( -10, random(height) );
break;
case 3:
// bot edge
k = new komet( random(width), height+10 );
break;
}
kometer.add(k);
}
}
}
void keyPressed() {
if (keyPressed);
if (key == ('r') && (hp <= 10)) {
hp = 10;
kills = 0;
println("RESTART");
}
if (key == CODED) { //Gamepad
if (keyCode == RIGHT) {
sqx = sqx + 10;
}
if (keyCode == LEFT) {
sqx = sqx - 10;
}
if (keyCode == UP) {
sqy = sqy - 10;
}
if (keyCode == DOWN) {
sqy = sqy + 10;
}
}
if (key == 'h') { //////////////HELP ME HERE
Font = loadFont("PressStartK-12.vlw");
textFont(Font, 12);
text(" A info-defender game, searching active \n for tweets containing keywords like 2012 / END \n & spawn thoose as comets. Your job as \n starfleet captain BUCK is to defend earth \n against confusion. \n \n R = restart \n arrows = move ", 410, 30);
println("HELP");
}
}

KOMET CLASS

PImage kometen;
PImage jorden2;
PFont Font2;
class komet {
int a = 15;
int b = 15;
float x = 0;
float y = 0;
float komet1, komet2;
boolean show = true;
komet(float _x, float _y) {
x = _x;
y = _y;
float speed = 2;
float ang = atan2(height/2-y, width/2-x);
komet1 = cos(ang)*speed;
komet2 = sin(ang)*speed;
}
void movement() {
x +=komet1;
y +=komet2;
}
void kometer() {
if (show) {
kometen = loadImage("komet5.png");
imageMode(CENTER);
image(kometen, x, y);
}
}
void collision() {
if (show) {
if ( dist(x, y, i1, i2) < i3) {
groove = minim.loadFile("hithit_earth.mp3", 512);
groove.loop(0);
show = false;
println("HIT"); //Räknar träffar
hp--;
rx--;
kometen = loadImage("testar3.png");
imageMode(CENTER);
image(kometen, x, y);
}
if ( dist(x, y, sqx, sqy) < sqr) {
groove = minim.loadFile("hit_comet.mp3", 512);
groove.loop(0);
show = false;
kills++;
kometen = loadImage("testar3.png");
imageMode(CENTER);
image(kometen, x, y);
}
}
}
void smart() {
movement();
kometer();
collision();
}
}

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PhiLho

Re: beta exhibition & some quests. 8bit game

1 year ago

The loadFile and loadImage calls in collision() are going to be relatively slow. You better load them in setup() as well. A class can access global static data.
size(height = 1000, width = 500); is superfluous: Processing sets these variables itself, user shouldn't mess with them. And size() should be the first instruction of setup(). I don't know if that's still the case, but at some time, instructions before size() were executed twice...
A Tweeter request every 5s is a bit too much by Tweeter standards, I think...

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