TriangleYAY - YouTube
Simple game written in LÖVE 2D game engine.
I've never programmed in Lua. This is my first project that I created in under 24H and this is how I made it:
- Learning basics of Lua and how it works in few minutes.
- Learning how LÖVE. works - printing some random text on screen (examples from LÖVE homepage). It's similar to python so I've spent about 10-30 minutes.
- Learning commands/functions of LÖVE (similar to AutoIt). This part was most time-drainful - few hours. I picked some commands that I will use.
- Trying to display something different than text - worked at first try.
- Understanding how to receive keyboard input - few minutes.
- Added some window collisions - pretty easy, just used WINDOW_WIDTH and WINDOW_HEIGHT variables - 10 minutes of coding.
- Now it's part for more than 1 object - I added a "triangle" (it's a circle with 3 segments lol). Took me few minutes.
- Understanding how collisions works on different objects - about 30-60 minutes.
- I wanted to rotate "triangles" (circles) but it's probably impossible (yeah, I realised I can do it with
love.graphics.triangle) - wasted 15 minutes. - Now the hardest part - creating multiple triangles and detecting collisions from them. I've spent about 4 hours to do it.
- Adding some effects/shaders. GLSL syntax is more akin to C/C++ so... next few hours. Screen shaking was really easy to apply.
- Time for music - sound effects are made with bfxr. Music is from random copy-right free websites.
- Final.
Because all you do is collecting triangles that are not triangles and at the end you can hear "yaaay" sound.
- Use arrow keys or WASD to move.
- Collect as many triangles as you can to get higher score.
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