This is a simple desktop game I built in my free time during Highschool. The user is a rectangle in a world made of 2D blocks, with a few major interesting aspects (especially for an un-trained highschool student):
- Dynamically Rendered World Chunks
- The world is split up into large chunks, and only the chunks around the user are rendered
- This allows the user to continue in one direction "forever", since the CPU doesn't have to process stached chunks
- Automatically Generated World
- World features such as trees are generated algorithmically as the user continues exploring
- Custom Menu System
- Unhappy with the jarring results of trying to overlay JavaFX or Swing, I built my own UI framework, including the defining, drawing, and creation of menus
- Allows buttons to have results when clicked, which powered the in-game menus (see screenshots below)
- Managed game state in stasis while menus were active
- Entities
- The world starts up with one cow and one pig
- I built an entire heirarchy of entity types and interfaces that allow the creation of a variety of entity types (animals, etc)
- They wander the world, randomly deciding to pause or to walk in a direction towards some point
- They jump when they need to get over something, and stop jumping when they can't get up to where they want
If you are interested in seeing a few slices of how this program was coded, see the following spots:
- Starting Screen
- Exit Menu
