http://shawnandbrooke.com/tag/coldseason.rss en-us 40 Here we are <p>A four day run of working on a new game, <a href="http://shawn42.github.com/cold-season">cold season</a>, has resulted in new knowledge of <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/">chipmunk physics</a> and <a href="http://github.com/">git/github</a>.</p> <h2><b>Cold Season:</b></h2> <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://skitch.com/shawn42/brge5/cold-season-level-one"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20090210-qqbuc1kx4ncf1q4ri7fsa8biey.preview.jpg" alt="cold_season_level_one" /></a><br /> Cold Season's goal is to infect a kid and keep him home from school.&nbsp; You (the bacteria) must infect all the red cells, while avoiding the white blood cells.&nbsp; It has unique and fun controls in a constantly moving and flowing environment. Levels are defined in SVG format, allowing for any SVG editor, such as <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/download/">Inkscape</a> to operate as a level editor.&nbsp; I would like to thank Karlin Fox for remastering the graphics, and David Crosby for lending me SVG loading code.</div> <h4>Why:</h4> <div class="thumbnail">I started writing Cold Season to try out the NetBeans ruby IDE.&nbsp; I wanted to write something small and fun that could be coded quickly.&nbsp; I also was looking for an outlet to play with physics in ruby.&nbsp; As I built Cold Season, I realized how many similarities existed between Cold Season and <a href="http://snelps.googlecode.com">Snelps</a>.&nbsp; Looking at what I was able to pull in from Snelps, I decided that when Cold Season is a little more stable (mode changes/story/main menu stuff), I will extract the common elements into a &quot;new game&quot; template and try to release that as a gem.&nbsp; Much in the same way rails was extracted from BaseCamp, I want to extract the commonalities into <a href="http://github.com/shawn42/gamebox/tree/master">gamebox</a>.&nbsp; This would allow a user to do:</div> <div class="thumbnail">&nbsp;</div> <div class="thumbnail">gem install gamebox</div> <div class="thumbnail">gamebox zappy</div> <div class="thumbnail">&nbsp;</div> <div class="thumbnail">This will create a zappy game with the basic scaffolding of a game setup very simularly to Cold Season. There would then be rake tasks for creating stand-alone apps. (exe/.apps/linux binaries - including dependencies).&nbsp; This would all be configurable. Do you want keyboard, mouse, networking, sound, etc. This will be much like environment.rb in rails land.</div> <h4>What about Snelps:</h4> <div class="thumbnail">Snelps is continuing its development.&nbsp; I just needed a break from large scale RTS game development.&nbsp; sirgazil is doing amazing work on the graphics.&nbsp; Take a look at this mockup he did: </div> <div class="thumbnail"><img width="800" height="645" src="/files/Image/snelps_iso_small.png" alt="" /></div> <div class="thumbnail">&nbsp;</div> <div class="thumbnail">Stay tuned for more info</div> <div class="thumbnail">&nbsp;</div> Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:57:00 -0500 urn:uuid:256e67a2-6503-4ba9-ac93-b56d1f2dfc1f http://shawnandbrooke.com/2009/02/10/its-cold-season-again#comments Shawn's Stuff rubygame ruby game snelps coldseason http://shawnandbrooke.com/2009/02/10/its-cold-season-again