Talking about vvvvvv game, Game development, HTML5, Javascript and Phaser.
Sometimes, you don’t have to squeeze your brain to find an original gameplay.
Sometimes, it’s just a matter of combining two existing gameplays and see what happens.
So I combined my HTML5 VVVVVV prototype with the ray casting light and dark generator, and the result is really interesting, but before you start using it in your actual games, I have to warn you: we positively MUST find a way to reduce the number of polygons.
In this prototype, each tile of the level, built with Tiled Map Editor, has been converted in a polygon, but this is a very unoptimized way to create the environment.
We should be able to reduce the amount of polygons by grouping adjacent squares into bigger rectangles.
Anyway, this is what we have at the moment:
Move left and right with LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys, switch gravity with SPACEBAR, but once you switch the gravity, you’ll have to wait for the character to land on the ground – or on the ceiling – to be able to switch gravity once more.
Press/release W to show or hide walls. As you can see, there are too much walls.
Ray casting algorithm is powered by Byron Knoll‘s visibility polygon.
And here is the source code:
let game;
let gameOptions = {
playerGravity: 1200,
playerSpeed: 200
}
window.onload = function() {
var gameConfig = {
type: Phaser.AUTO,
backgroundColor: 0x000000,
scale: {
mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT,
autoCenter: Phaser.Scale.CENTER_BOTH,
parent: "thegame",
width: 640,
height: 480
},
physics: {
default: "arcade",
arcade: {
gravity: {
y: 0
}
}
},
scene: playGame
}
game = new Phaser.Game(gameConfig);
}
class playGame extends Phaser.Scene{
constructor(){
super("PlayGame");
}
preload(){
this.load.tilemapTiledJSON("level", "level.json");
this.load.image("tile", "tile.png");
this.load.image("hero", "hero.png");
}
create(){
this.gravityDirection = 1;
this.map = this.make.tilemap({
key: "level"
});
let tile = this.map.addTilesetImage("tileset01", "tile");
this.map.setCollision(1);
this.layer = this.map.createStaticLayer("layer01", tile);
let polygons = [];
this.layer.forEachTile(function(t){
if(t.index == 1){
polygons.push([[t.pixelX, t.pixelY], [t.pixelX + t.width, t.pixelY], [t.pixelX + t.width, t.pixelY + t.height], [t.pixelX, t.pixelY + t.height]]);
}
}.bind(this));
polygons.push([[-1, -1], [this.layer.width + 1 , - 1], [this.layer.width + 1, this.layer.height + 1], [-1, this.layer.height + 1]]);
this.canFlipGravity = true;
this.cursors = this.input.keyboard.createCursorKeys();
let spaceKey = this.input.keyboard.addKey(Phaser.Input.Keyboard.KeyCodes.SPACE);
spaceKey.on("down", function(){
if(this.canFlipGravity){
this.hero.body.gravity.y *= -1;
this.canFlipGravity = false;
this.hero.flipY = this.hero.body.gravity.y < 0
}
}, this);
let wKey = this.input.keyboard.addKey(Phaser.Input.Keyboard.KeyCodes.W);
wKey.on("down", function(){
this.wallGraphics.setVisible(true);
}, this);
wKey.on("up", function(){
this.wallGraphics.setVisible(false);
}, this);
this.wallGraphics = this.add.graphics();
this.wallGraphics.setVisible(false);
this.wallGraphics.lineStyle(1, 0x00ff00);
this.lightGraphics = this.add.graphics();
polygons.forEach(function(p){
this.wallGraphics.strokeRect(p[0][0], p[0][1], p[2][0] - p[0][0], p[2][1] - p[0][1]);
}.bind(this));
this.hero = this.physics.add.sprite(300, 376, "hero");
this.hero.body.gravity.y = gameOptions.playerGravity;
this.cameras.main.setBounds(0, 0, 1920, 1440);
this.cameras.main.startFollow(this.hero);
this.segments = VisibilityPolygon.convertToSegments(polygons);
this.segments = VisibilityPolygon.breakIntersections(this.segments);
}
update(){
this.drawLightPolygon();
this.hero.body.velocity.y = Phaser.Math.Clamp(this.hero.body.velocity.y, -800, 800);
this.hero.body.velocity.x = this.cursors.left.isDown ? (this.cursors.right.isDown ? 0 : -1 * gameOptions.playerSpeed) : (this.cursors.right.isDown ? gameOptions.playerSpeed : 0);
this.hero.flipX = this.hero.body.velocity.x == 0 ? this.hero.flipX : (this.hero.body.velocity.x > 0 ? false : true);
this.physics.world.collide(this.hero, this.layer, function(hero, layer){
if(hero.body.blocked.down || hero.body.blocked.up){
this.canFlipGravity = true;
}
}, null, this);
}
drawLightPolygon(){
let position = [this.hero.x, this.hero.y];
let light = VisibilityPolygon.compute(position, this.segments);
this.lightGraphics.clear();
this.lightGraphics.lineStyle(2, 0xff8800);
this.lightGraphics.fillStyle(0xffff00);
this.lightGraphics.beginPath();
this.lightGraphics.moveTo(light[0][0], light[0][1]);
for(let i = 1; i <= light.length; i ++){
this.lightGraphics.lineTo(light[i % light.length][0], light[ i % light.length][1]);
}
this.lightGraphics.closePath();
this.lightGraphics.fillPath();
this.lightGraphics.strokePath();
}
}
I am really proud of this experiment, and once I find a decent way to reduce the amount of polygons, I’ll update and comment the script, meanwhile download the source code.
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