AoC 2022 Day 14: Sandinator

2022-12-14

Source: Regolith Reservoir

Part 1

Given a series of walls as input, run a falling sand simulation until any new sand falls of the map. Count how many grains of sand we end up with.

Sandbox Battle!

2014-08-24

Ludum Dare 30: Demo mode

2014-08-24

Quick update this morning: I managed to get a ‘demo mode’ working. Now when you first start the game, the boxes will be whizzing around in the background giving you an idea of what you’re about to get yourself into!

Ludum Dare 30: Programmer art and simple AI

2014-08-23

A few hours later and we’ve already finished (or at least made good progress on) two of the goals that I was hoping for:

AI players; at the very least one that moves randomly, but optimally several different kinds
Pending the previous, a selector on the options screen that can turn each player either off, on, or to any of the current AIs
Stylings around the page; probably some sort of thick border that bleeds a little in and out, looking different per player

Ludum Dare 30: 24 hours

2014-08-23

Here we are, 24 hours into the competition.

A lot of the last few hours has been spent doing a fair amount of restructing. Before, I had a single ’thread’¹ for each of the tiles, along with another thread listening for user input. Unfortunately though, that lead to all sorts of race conditions. Specifically, whenever two tiles overlapped, it was often the case that one was doing the falling step (which copies from one internal buffer to another) while the other was in the swap step (which copies from tile to another). Then after the first finished, it would copy the second buffer over… overwriting anything that had been swapped.

Oops.

Ludum Dare 30: Hints of a game

2014-08-23

We’re getting there. 18 hours in and I have the first hints of what might actually be a game…

Ludum Dare 30: Sandbox Battle

2014-08-22

And here we are again. Ludum Dare. Taken directly from their about page…

Ludum Dare is a regular accelerated game development Event. Participants develop games from scratch in a weekend, based on a theme suggested by community.

More specifically, the goal is to make a game from scratch in 48 hours. You’re allowed to use publicly available frameworks and code libraries, but no art or other assets. Previously, I missed the original start time. So although I made my game in 48 hours, it didn’t qualify. This time around, I’m starting on time.

Sandbox - It's Alive!

2010-02-06

So I haven’t actually updated the Sandbox project for quite some time (December 9th I believe). Since then, I’ve actually torn out the core of the code and rewritten it to actually be a game, rather than another clone of the general Falling Sand games. Rather than explain in detail what I’ve done (I’ll get to that later), I’ll start with screenshots of the new version.