Clay bang has been getting pretty fun. I started managing states to pause the game to make it feel more like a game. Something I’ve been wanting to do for a while is changing the cursor to a crosshair and adding a muzzle sound while clicking.
I downloaded an open source muzzle sound and created my crosshair using my ipad. I wanted to make the muzzle modular so I’m loading it in a seperate file.
I’ve been shooting some clays on clay-bang and it’s starting to look a little lifeless. Just shooting clays on a black screen, all of them with dreams and they yearn to be flown on an open range. Well, let’s change that by adding a background image. I want to keep a pixelated look to the game so it had to be pixel art. There are different tools like piskel but I have an iPad just gathering dust since college. What if I used Procreate to make it?
When I initially thought of making the clays fly in my game, I thought of using lines with randomized curves and making the pigeons fly along the line.
Once I finally got to making it, Love2D has a very extensive physics engine which is a port of Box2D so I thought “What if we use physics instead?”
I believe that once humans have a complete understanding of physics, we can be the masters of our own universe. I also believe that with enough physics calculations, I can be the master of clay-bang’s universe. Maybe once I finish this game I’ll set my sights to dark matter research, but for now, I’ll master projectile motion.
It is time to add some menu functionality to Clay Bang. I had followed a previous tutorial creating some buttons and running them in main.lua
This is good, but I want these to be centered. These are my three buttons in menu.lua. They will help with state management too.
self.buttons = {
{text = "Start Game", x = 100, y = 100, width = 200, height = 50, action = function() State = "play" end},
{text = "Settings", x = 100, y = 200, width = 200, height = 50, action = function() State = "SettingsMenu" end},
{text = "Quit", x = 100, y = 400, width = 200, height = 50, action = function() love.event.quit() end},
}
In games, you are able to resize your window to different resolutions. How am I supposed to click if I only have a 30x30 monitor?