[WIP] Snake: The Dark Descent

[flamez3]

Hahahahhaa, finally I get what your talking about now XD Nice work!

[Brute]

First Tetris TDD and now Snake TDD?
I this community!

[palistov]

The animation is simply an infinitely loop; a function which calls itself on a timer. The timer's duration is a global variable so I can change it with power ups and such, or simply to debug by watching it slowly.

Since the grid consists of 800 units, it's not very efficient to use a for loop or to try and track which grid units should be lit/unlit and other data. The data structure would be huge...I tried that approach but I ended up with an 800 member array, and each member was an array of 7 or 8 variables (direction, lit/unlit, and some more variables I can't think of off the top of my head). Instead, I just activate the grid light which is the snake's head position, and create a timer whose duration increases as the snake's length increases, which in turn deactivates the grid light. It's really quite a simple approach, and makes checking for the snake's head-to-body collisions fairly simple.

[XxRoCkBaNdMaNxX]

Is it weird I thought Snake meant that guy from Metal Gear Solid?

[palistov]

Haha RockBandMan, that would be called Metal Gear: The Dark Descent.

[Juby]

(11-07-2011 08:18 AM)palistov Wrote:  Haha RockBandMan, that would be called Metal Gear: The Dark Descent.

Ahem

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Dark Descent

[palistov]

Haha. But I mean, if you think about it....Amnesia has a MGS feel to it. Except in Amnesia you can't kill the grunts if they spot you >_>

[Arvuti]

(11-07-2011 07:01 PM)palistov Wrote:  Haha. But I mean, if you think about it....Amnesia has a MGS feel to it. Except in Amnesia you can't kill the grunts if they spot you >_>

Uh..Amnesia has a MGS feel to it ? I don't really see how amnesia has anything to do with MGS. Calling a game like Deus Ex Human Revolution a game what has MGS feel to it, sure I agree with that but amnesia..Uh my brain hurts now.

[Tanshaydar]

Actually it has nothing to overthink. You just hide, I'm sure you are able to see this.

[XxRoCkBaNdMaNxX]

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