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nFinity
« on: December 30, 2013, 12:25:44 pm »
nFinity is a randomly generated sidescrolling exploration game. The goal for this game was to have as much of it randomized as possible.

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Demo of the title screen-of course, pulsing random colors

The most visible right now is the randomized color scheme. The combination of background color, terrain color, and character color are different every time you generate a level. I have calculated there to be 4,558,916,353,692,300,000,000 possible color combinations.

Desert at midday                                                                                      Sunset landscape

Additionally, the terrain is varied. This feature is in a very early stage. Currently, only small hills and plateaus can spawn, as well as a single fern. Now that I have learned how to clone objects/classes, this feature will be greatly expanded in the future. Much larger mountains will be able to spawn, and more and diverse plant life will also appear. I even experimented with making the player be a randomized shape, but after some "intersting" results I figured it would be best to keep a simple square for the player shape.

In it's current state, this is more of a demo. You can move around and jump in the environment, and generate a new level at the push of a button, but it's not much of a "game" quite yet. I am thinking of the gameplay being based around you exploring the environment collecting random objects, but I'm interested to hear suggestions from the community.
Here are a few more screenshots demonstrating the randomized visuals
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2013, 12:28:04 pm »
looking good, but you have to get rid of those thin lines between hills and the horizon  :P
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2013, 12:30:06 pm »
Quote from: LDStudios on December 30, 2013, 12:28:04 pm
looking good, but you have to get rid of those thin lines between hills and the horizon  :P
Those are from the Student Software being dumb. They don't appear when the program is run on the nSpire. I could edit the screenshots in a photo editor to get rid of them but these are early screenshots anyways - they will be replaced later.
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2013, 12:33:27 pm »
Seems interesting. Also the lines between hills kinda reminded me of Atari games at first. :P

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Re: nFinity
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2013, 03:40:33 pm »
Super Mario Bros. on a 2600? That's impressive.
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2013, 11:50:07 pm »
Yeah I was amazed when I saw this, especially considering it had music. Too bad the cartridge now cost $500 on Ebay due to Nintendo sending a C&D to AtariAges. It used to be $30 there. It would have been nice in the 2600 collection, along with Halo 2600 and hopefully soon Zippy the Porcupine if it doesn't suffer the same fate as Princess Rescue.
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2013, 02:27:35 pm »
hey chimp ( if i can call u that :P)

by the way is it lua or assembly
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2013, 02:56:40 pm »
Quote from: hking1 on December 31, 2013, 02:27:35 pm
by the way is it lua or assembly
Given that the cause of the glitches is the student software, I'd imagine it is Lua.
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2013, 07:52:47 pm »
You should have a way to change the extent of the randomness.
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2013, 08:14:19 pm »
this looks pretty cool =) you should go for a Knytt Stories-like aesthetic.
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2014, 12:23:06 pm »
Sounds like a pretty interesting concept :)
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More ferns
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2014, 12:50:12 pm »
I was testing cloned objects today and got it to work with ferns, so now a random number of ferns can spawn instead of just one. From here, I should be able to apply the same technique to the terrain so more interesting landscapes can form. Later I might add more kinds of plant life too, but it's kind of a pain since in order to get ferns to be the same color as the ground I have it saved as a long set of polygon coordinates. Here's some screens of the ferns (and I edited out the lines this time ;) ):
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Re: nFinity
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2014, 10:24:56 am »
This seems pretty cool! How does it look on B&W Touchpad?
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Better terrain
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2014, 03:16:25 pm »
Randomized terrain is now in full swing!
Now more diverse landscapes can form with each level generation. Combined with the ferns I fixed earlier, it looks a lot more interesting than the first screens I posted. Here are new ones:
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I feel like nFinity has reached the point where I'd want to share it with the community, so I also have attached the .tns file for it for you all to mess around with. As stated before, there's not much to do yet other than move/jump around the terrain and generate new ones (hence me not bothering to upload a GIF of gameplay), but it's still interesting to see the unique visual style that forms each time. I tried to keep the randomness at a balanced medium for this version, but in the future I will add in the requested feature to be able to choose the nature of the randomness (ex more/less ferns, taller/flatter terrain, might even have preset color ranges for more natural color selections).

Now that the randomized framework is down pretty solid, I hope to move to the gameplay phase of this project. I am open to suggestions as to what the actual gameplay would be, so definitely let me know your ideas. One I was pondering was to have a set number of generated levels for you to switch between, and switch between them to get past obstacles (almost like different dimensions)... I will see.

Quote from: Official.Xian on January 05, 2014, 10:24:56 am
This seems pretty cool! How does it look on B&W Touchpad?
I don't own one so I wouldn't know, but try out the .tns and let me know!
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Re: Re: nFinity
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2014, 11:54:04 am »
Looks very good. I will try this in the Student software later  :)
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