Mellogy [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

picos_farm

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 02:36:07 UTC

A game made in roughly 3 days for the ToyBoxJam 2020! Plant some crops and stay out of debt. See how many days you can last.

This doesn't quite have all the stuff that I wanted to put in it, but now that the deadline is extended I'll probably keep playing with the concept :)

It definitely needs a good chunk of optimization, but I still think it's a fun little toy.

Tile bitmasking wip

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:44:22 UTC

sasnagoza

by Mellogy

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Arrow keys to move around, X to place a grass tile. Just a quick and dirty implementation of tile bitmasking.

Basic process is:

Create table same width/height as map, store what kind of tile is here (empty,grass,water,etc)
When you hit the X key, assign the corresponding index in the table to 1
Run a function to update the map accordingly
Show map and cursor

The autotile function checks the cardinal directions for neighboring tiles of the same type using the table, then returns a value 0-15 depending on what came back. Then we pull from another table filled with sprite indexes to figure out what should go on the map.

I used this article to figure out the best way to go about this: https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-tile-bitmasking-to-auto-tile-your-level-layouts--cms-25673

This current implementation is quite token heavy and isn't the cleanest thing in the world, but it's a good start I think!

9-Slice Utility

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:16:15 UTC

Nineslice Demo

by Mellogy

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A quick little function to draw 9-slice boxes. Has modes for stretched or repeated sprites along the borders, and an optional background color. A little heavy for general use at ~444 tokens, and could probably be optimized further.

Use:

nineslice(x origin,y origin,width in px,height in px,
          sprite index for upper left corner, stretched mode (true/false), 
          background color)