@DaintyDust

My last post before shipping.

I did alot of bug fixes, such as sticking to a wall of floor when swinging. and a really annoying bug which took me ages to find out. apparently roblox only allows 30 highlight in the same game, otherwise they won’t be rendered. i didn’t know this so i was troubleshooting alot why it didn’t work. I solved it by only adding the highlights to the levels that where currently loaded.

I added sound effects to make the game sound more alive.

Added IkControls, these allow you to control the movement of the arms and legs, but keep the natural movement of the joints. so a arm can only move in a way a arm can normally move.

This makes it look like the player is actually grabbing the string. instead of floating in the air.

added 20 levels, and made the UI fit on smaller screens like phones. (even in verticial mode)

added a way to pauze the game.

in the beginning it was quite tricky because when you where already swining the momentum carried on even when your body was anchored. so that caused the camera to still move in circles.

updated the level loader to be more reliable. sometimes it bugged and caused nothing to load, that has been resolved.

now you can only play levels that you have unlocked, you can unlock a level by completing the previous one.

also added data saving and loading, you can now join and leave the gaming with your data being saved. i also display it in the playerlist

I added functionality to the menu.
You can now select a level and play, you can also continue to the next level when finishing.

Added death detection when falling to low or going to high in the map.

Also added the finish. it slows you down and gives you options to restart or go to the menu. (the buttons don’t work yet)

also designed the UI for the main menu

I made the bouncers work!

I wanted a bounce animation for the bouncer. but instead of just changing the size i decided to use the editable mesh.

A editable mesh is basically a mesh that can have “bones” and those bones can move individually to control how the part moves.

So i added a bone that moves up and down to make a little bounce animation.

added the first level.

the bouncer in the beginning and the finish don’t work yet.

added a target ring so you can see what the nearest hook point is that your gonne hook onto next.

I began with adding a 2D camera, and disabling movement in the Z direction.

after that i began with the actual grappling system.
I did this by checking which hook point is the closest to you and then creating a attachment. then with some math (sin and cos) i added a swinging animation

Added proper mobile support by changing some css selectors

Fixed the lag on small grid sizes by rebuilding the paint rendering by doing these changes:

• Drawings are now cached on an offscreen canvas and rendered via a single drawImage() call every frame instead of running 30,000+ fillRect() calls per second.
• Grouped pixels by color to avoid expensive canvas context switching.

maybe still needs some work, but its already alot faster for things like text rendering

I added a fill tool, this was pretty hard to do since there are some complicated calculations that needed to be made.

So for the really hard calculations i used forms online and a bit of AI

added a text tool to my paint page, you can now add text in different sizes. this was pretty easy to do since i already had a system to display text on my homepage, so i reused most stuff for that

also added a tech stack to my portfolio, so others can see what languages i can program in.

and I fix a bug where the electrons wouldn’t follow the grid when changing the grid size.

Added a page to paint the pixels. https://daintydust.dev/paint

you can use tools like: pencil, brush, rectangle, circle, eraser.

or change the brush size or grid size.

At first i thought it was pretty easy since i already had a working grid system that could display text. But after alot of trial and error i managed to add the first pen tool. After that was done it was pretty easy adding the other tools

Added a sandbox page so you can play around with the text and colors and stuff. you can also do this by pressing “ctrl + /” on any page.

Also added a projects widget so you can easily go to my portfolio from the homepage