OK, I made the repo for Artificial Galaxies and put it up. There’s a link for the Corona based versions and a plain vanilla version too. The Corona version demos the borders and a couple of ships grooving along from one star to another. Repo is here. I’ve blended some …
Sorry about delay, I had some extra fun doing a bonus project along these lines of our artificial galaxy creation, but more on that later.
So we’ve got a great framework in place (if I do say so myself!) and it’s pretty neat. I’ve created a bunch of ships, and have them flying to random stars. But what about territories? You know, you got your group of stars, and you wanna represent to the rest …
So this latest incarnation incorporates some cool stuff. In the Galaxy object, I’ve built functionality so you can query the Galaxy to return only stars that are owned by a particular civilization. The usage:
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local data= { -- The width and height of the -- galaxy in units. Pixels, light years, -- hey it's up to you, -- Number of civilizations -- minimum distance from another civilization width = screenW, height = screenH, civilizations = 1, min_dist_from_civilizations = 200, max_dist_from_civilizations = 400, } local galaxy = Galaxy:new(data) starModel = galaxy:GetAllStarsBelongingToACivilization(galaxy.civilizations[1]) |
That will return a table with all the star objects that belong to civilization 1 …
So, I think the best thing to do is kind start at the bottom and work our way up. At the base of all these objects we’ve talked about so far, the Species object seems to be the most manageable and smallest on the scale of things, so let’s start fleshing …
Habitica: Creating a Todo-List programmatically: So in my super neglected ‘everyday’ series (inspired by Beeple’s everydays located here) I created a method for you to programmatically create a todo list, complete with subtasks from Corona to your Habitica account. All you’ll need is the API key and User ID key …
Habitica: Creating a task programmatically: So in my super neglected ‘everyday’ series (inspired by Beeple’s everydays located here) I created a method for you to programmatically create tasks from Corona to your Habitica account. All you’ll need is the API key and User ID key from your Habitica account and …
CoronaSDK example of creating random bars that expand and contract. Good for fake dials or guages maybe? High tech. Includes nice cleanup method, and groups them all into a table for easy maintenance. Source: https://github.com/mroberti/randombars Enjoy!
The usefulness of SQLite far exceeds the ability to merely save out player data, high scores, etc. to the device you’re deploying to. You can use a database for the actual mechanics of your game.
Yeah, you need it. A simple, easy to configure high-tech looking scanner. For backgrounds, for nerdy matrix style freakage. Yeah. You crave it. Well, enjoy this! Grab it here! Happy Coding! Mario
