Currently just a toolkit for allowing me to create games.
I enjoy creating game projects to maintain my skills whenever college or work don't fully satisfy my programming "itch". Seeing as I have my Associate of Science in Java, I find it helpful to practice this language, as I have done to a great extent in Orpheus. Unfortunately, Orpheus has gotten rather large and difficult to work with, so I wanted to practice Java using something a bit simpler (preferably without socket programming...). GEARS is mostly a collection of game mechanics I've had for some time. I made an early version of this game several years ago in my other GEARS repository, though these versions have diverged significantly in their designs and general ideas.
Currently, this project contains 2 sub-projects: GearsSidescroller and ImageEditor. ImageEditor isn't complete, so you'll want to head on over to GearsSidescroller, which contains a JAR file under Gears/GearsSidescroller/build/libs. Simply double-click the JAR file to run it, or run from the command line:
java -jar GearsSidescroller/build/libs/GearsGame-0.9.jar
when run from the repository root.
Once you've launched the project, go to file -> play a random level to
generate a random level. There is not currently any way to win or lose, you can
just wander around to see what sort of world the game has generated. Since these
levels are randomly generated, you may be bordered on all sides by blocking
tiles, so if pressing the WASD keys does nothing, just play a different random
level. You are controlling the grey square in the middle of the screen.
Monochrome tiles can be walked on, while edged tiles are blocking
- everything in the package info for world
- sprite loader
- Renderable interface which gives access to a 1x1 tile sprite
- not sure if JSON serialization is needed, or levels should just be created in memory. If it is needed, I'll want to rewrite it so it's harder to forget to implement a deserializer for each new serializable class. A unit test could work.
- the gui.console package is incomplete, needing commands that accept arguments
- structures demonstrating conveyor belts, lanterns, and new machines as I make them
- WASD to move
- Q to interact with your current tile (such as picking up placed gears)
- L to toggle your light
- hold X to sneak
- C to open command console
- +/= to zoom in
- -/_ to zoom out
- select items from the "inventory" menu on the bottom of the screen to use them
You may come across rooms such as this while playing the game:
You can run into this gear to pick it up...
...then move to where you'd like to place it...
...then select the gear from your inventory to place it, powering the last gear!
Here are just a few examples of the kind of worlds this program can generate:
