LÖVE

I'm working on turning some of my LOVE projects into videos to put into a programming portfolio. This one visualises Twitter hashtag usage over time. The size of the circles are proportional to the usage frequency of the hashtag. The data set in this video consists of 120 000 tweets collected over the course of 6 hours.

nice @rexjericho !!

I've dabbled with a fair amount of Processing, but I can totally see how LÖVE can fill this gap.

A map editor.

I started to port the game I started on libgdx into love2d and lua. I am almost at the same point for lua project now that I was with java. I shall see how well things work out. Using quickie for ui.

Yo!
I've been working on a pixel generator.
You can read more about it here.



There's some really cool looking stuff in this thread.
Slowly digging thru it.

@ Muris: Nice! What attacks do the priests do?

@ PixelPiledriver: Neat. I especially like the "drop" animation that it starts off with. Awesome how you can make it look like a hologramm with just 3 colours... O.o

P.S.
Working on new sliders for Bandana:

Jasoco, that's just cool.
PixelPileDriver, nice. I am sharing this on my Twitter.
Germanunkol, well, dunno what to say. You always impress me with your nice stuff. Keep it up.

I've been working on a leopard survival game



Some cool stuff about it:

2.5D perspective. I was originally going for a sidescroller, but as I was implementing the hunting mechanic, it felt too rigid to only chase a gazelle in one dimension. It was pretty fun creating the perspective camera, though I’m pretty sure I’m doing it wrong. I think I’m supposed to create a homography matrix and just multiply the 3D coordinates by it but I didn’t really understand the maths so I just made it up.

Gazelle herding. Now that the gazelle can move in 2 dimensions, I can use the steering algorithms I initially implemented for the overview mode right in the action mode. It feels pretty convincing, but still needs some tweaking to avoid threats more proactively.

L-system trees. I planted the L-system trees in the 2.5D environment and they look pretty cool. Some of the tree types actually have a Z coordinate, so when you walk by them, they look 3D.

Spine animations. Loving Spine for 2d bone animations. I haven’t fleshed out the gazelle or hyena walk animations, but I’m excited for what they’ll look like when I do.

Hyena fight or flight. It’s not obvious from the video, but the hyena is actually make a conscious cost-benefit analysis on whether to fight you for the kill or not. If he’s hungry, he’ll fight. If he’s full, he’ll flee. There’s also parameters to tweak the decision based on the chances that you’re going to actually fight or you’re just bluffing and the chances that if you do get into a fight, that he’ll win, but they’re just hard-coded for now.

If you're interested in the code, you can download it from my blog post

clofresh wrote:I've been working on a leopard survival game



Some cool stuff about it:

2.5D perspective. I was originally going for a sidescroller, but as I was implementing the hunting mechanic, it felt too rigid to only chase a gazelle in one dimension. It was pretty fun creating the perspective camera, though I’m pretty sure I’m doing it wrong. I think I’m supposed to create a homography matrix and just multiply the 3D coordinates by it but I didn’t really understand the maths so I just made it up.

Gazelle herding. Now that the gazelle can move in 2 dimensions, I can use the steering algorithms I initially implemented for the overview mode right in the action mode. It feels pretty convincing, but still needs some tweaking to avoid threats more proactively.

L-system trees. I planted the L-system trees in the 2.5D environment and they look pretty cool. Some of the tree types actually have a Z coordinate, so when you walk by them, they look 3D.

Spine animations. Loving Spine for 2d bone animations. I haven’t fleshed out the gazelle or hyena walk animations, but I’m excited for what they’ll look like when I do.

Hyena fight or flight. It’s not obvious from the video, but the hyena is actually make a conscious cost-benefit analysis on whether to fight you for the kill or not. If he’s hungry, he’ll fight. If he’s full, he’ll flee. There’s also parameters to tweak the decision based on the chances that you’re going to actually fight or you’re just bluffing and the chances that if you do get into a fight, that he’ll win, but they’re just hard-coded for now.

If you're interested in the code, you can download it from my blog post

This feels like a surrealist dreamscape. I think I like it?

(2.5D is great and I love your trees!)