OMG THAT'S AWESOME!

very impressive - how are you dealing with water particles? don't tell me you're doing that much cellular automata at 6mhz

It reminds me a little bit of Minecraft water And it looks super epic as well!  The physics of this game look like it's going to make the gameplay fantabulous, can't wait for more updates 

It reminds me a little bit of Minecraft water

Sorta like that, I guess.

Basically, each tile in the tilemap has two bytes. The first byte is the actual tile (block, crate, space, etc.). The second byte is the amount of water in that tile. When water "flows," I look for an empty tile on the row below it and add water to it. (Something like that.)

To make things simpler, all tiles are monochrome, so they get drawn to the main buffer and the back-buffer is all for water. I keep the main buffer static for speed (it gets drawn once at the beginning and only parts that need to be changed get changed), but since water tends to move around a lot, I redraw the back-buffer every frame.

And it looks super epic as well!  The physics of this game look like it's going to make the gameplay fantabulous, can't wait for more updates 

Thanks! I really wanted to make something physics-y a few months back, and this is what I came up with.

(nice 6x6 sprite you got for the char )

I thought it looked like a headless gorilla, but I guess you don't get much room with 6x6

Quote from: LincolnB on September 13, 2012, 09:43:37 pm

very impressive - how are you dealing with water particles? don't tell me you're doing that much cellular automata at 6mhz

so it is cellular automata, just with 8*8 cells

Well, it's not in a list, so I'd say it's more of a second tilemap.

this _is_ looking pretty cool =) what kinds of traps do you have planned? maybe this could be some sort of prison-break thing? maybe something bioshock-esque? a high security prison underneath the atlantic ocean.

That's a nice idea

Well, it's not in a list, so I'd say it's more of a second tilemap.

It is still technically a grid of cells that evolve in the simulation based on a certain set of rules, so I still think it is classified as a cellular automaton^^

Quote from: Deep Thought on September 15, 2012, 06:46:17 pm

Well, it's not in a list, so I'd say it's more of a second tilemap.

It is still technically a grid of cells that evolve in the simulation based on a certain set of rules, so I still think it is classified as a cellular automaton^^

You're right, it's basically cellular automata with seven possible states per cell. I think I forgot what a cellular automaton was there

Quote from: Deep Thought on September 15, 2012, 10:02:45 am

Basically, each tile in the tilemap has two bytes. The first byte is the actual tile (block, crate, space, etc.). The second byte is the amount of water in that tile. When water "flows," I look for an empty tile on the row below it and add water to it. (Something like that.)

To make things simpler, all tiles are monochrome, so they get drawn to the main buffer and the back-buffer is all for water. I keep the main buffer static for speed (it gets drawn once at the beginning and only parts that need to be changed get changed), but since water tends to move around a lot, I redraw the back-buffer every frame.

Very clever. Is there any kind of buoyancy involved?

There will be! Or at least that the character will be able to move up and down and "swim" at a slower speed in the water. Otherwise there's not much point in it being there

I thought you already named it Turret