Woven Interactive » Atlanta Interactive Agency http://woveninteractive.net Flash, Flex, Papervision, Interactive Agency Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Side Scrolling Fish Swim Game with APE Physics Engine http://woveninteractive.net/2009/04/side-scrolling-fish-swim-game-with-ape-physics-engine/ http://woveninteractive.net/2009/04/side-scrolling-fish-swim-game-with-ape-physics-engine/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:57:50 +0000 admin http://woveninteractive.net/?p=90 ape-engine-game

In an effort to find a very simple and easy to use physics engine we stumbled upon APE. Although this is not the most powerful of Flash physics engines it does seem to have a rather minimal learning curve.

There are several other physics engines in AS3 available. The one that seems to currently be the leader of the pack is Box2D. Box2D is a port from C++ so package names / method names etc do not follow Actionscript best practices (lowercase package names & uppercase method names). Not really a big deal but a little odd at times.

For this game it seemed that APE had plenty of features and power to get the desired result.

Monsters (fish), and coins were easily placed in an array

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Actionscript:
  1. var monsters:Array = [ { x:1500, y:150, type:Starfish }, { x:1700, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:2500, y:180, type:Starfish },
  2.         { x:2700, y:330, type:Octo }, { x:3200, y:150, type:Starfish }, { x:3700, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:3900, y:180, type:Starfish },
  3.         { x:4000, y:330, type:Octo }, { x:4300, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:4500, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:5000, y:330, type:Octo },
  4.         { x:5500, y:150, type:Starfish }, { x:6000, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:6200, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:6700, y:330, type:Octo },
  5.         { x:7000, y:120, type:Starfish }, { x:7700, y:350, type:Octo }, { x:8300, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:9000, y:330, type:Octo },
  6.         { x:9300, y:300, type:Octo }, { x:9800, y:180, type:Starfish }, { x:10000, y:330, type:Octo },
  7.        
  8.         { x:1600, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:1900, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:2200, y:220, type:Coin },
  9.         { x:3500, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:3800, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:4600, y:220, type:Coin },
  10.         { x:9600, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:11000, y:220, type:Coin }, { x:12000, y:220, type:Coin }
  11.        
  12.        
  13.         ]

Movement is as simple as adding force to an object:

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Actionscript:
  1. protected function onKeyDown(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
  2.         {
  3.  
  4.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.UP)
  5.             {
  6.                 forceAmountY = -25;
  7.             }
  8.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN)
  9.             {
  10.                 forceAmountY = 25;
  11.             }
  12.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.RIGHT)
  13.             {
  14.                 forceAmount = 6;
  15.             }
  16.             if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.LEFT)
  17.             {
  18.                 forceAmount = -6;
  19.             }
  20.         }

All together the creation of this game was not difficult. With some more time spent on adding sounds, animations to monsters, and general fluff you would have a sweet fun game.

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They always say that designing and building a site for your self is hard work. We won’t argue. It’s always tougher to take a the lens and turn it towards yourself, but we did it (and in a short amount of time no less.) We’re excited to announce the launch of the new Woven Interactive website. We believe that a site should be a constantly evolving medium, which how we will be approaching the site over the next few months. Browse through the site, take a look at some of the projects we’ve been fortunate enough to work on, and drop us a line to discus your project.

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