AsciiBird
By
@renanfartes
- 8 Devlogs
- 8 Total hours
A terminal based flappy bird game!
Super Star
As a prize for your great work, look out for a bonus prize in the mail :)
Ship #1
I creaded a AsciiBird! A flappy bird version on the terminal. I learned about frame buffers, memcpy() and how to handle user input without the canonical mode and the terminal ECHO.
Space Jumps
R restarts
Q exits
21m 34s logged
Devlog #07
Added finally windows support!
I added the tag _WIN32 to speciallized compile.
As i do not have windows, i cannot compile the inary and put it on releases. If your’re on windows, you’ll need to build it from source… ;(
40m 41s logged
Devlog #06
GAME COMPLETE
I added the points and gameover system.
I did it fast, so the code is crappy by the moment. But after i refactor it. I only need to port it to windows before shipping.
(Yeah, i’m terrible in my own game, as yall can see in this clip)
43m 28s logged
Devlog #06
Working pipes!
I added the pipe mechanic. So now it spawns at different Y levels and returns to the X initial position to not waste memory.
It does not make the player die or anything, i’ll add this later.
1h 25m 35s logged
Devlog #05
Basic Mechanics added!
So basicly my core ascii engine is ready. So, i’ll start making the flappy bird logic. Since is simple, i’ll make it faster. after i can make some other scenes such as a menu or stuff.
By the time, i have a funcitonal gravity and a jump mechanic. Still needs the pipes.
1h 25m 1s logged
Devlog #04
Finally working clock!
I now finished the interface. The std::chrono Library is a really torture to convert and display. THe documentation is the end of the world.
Todos:
- Add a setTargetFPS() function
- Add a getFrameTime() function for deltatime
- Start the game itself,
1h 42m 20s logged
Devlog #03
FINALLY NONBLOCK INPUT
I’ve navigated for like almost 40 minutes and not found any reasonable or good answer. I had to search with AI to learn what is the termios struct and how it works on the linux headers.
Is a lot more simple than stack overflow answers. I thought using ncurses but it still not have a full port for windows later. I’ll use <conio.h> to read input on windows.
1h 29m 39s logged
Devlog #02
I added sprite loading and rendering. The Framebuffer is also implemented and i had some headaches
I wanted to load sprites from files. I searched all over the google to see how to use only \n as delimeter. I didn’t find.
THIS TOOK ME HALF AN HOUR
I used AI for that. I’m not a machine ;(
30m 52s logged
Devlog #01
Project initialized. Cmake, README and Git repo all setted
Just started writting my logic to render things on the terminal! The idea is to be mantainable and secure. Here’s the renderer class scaffold
