NO VORE YET. Though I am planning to add it.
Sand Castles is a town generator - or at least I have planned it as one. I am not a great programmer so my code is far from perfect - you could probably analyze my path in learning Python by this code.
About the code:
- it's written in Python
- currently I am using Pygame library, as well as default libraries like random and itertools.
- I am an amatour and my code is messy. For example, I use different ways of writing the coordinates, for example I was writing the rectangles as four lines: (x1, x2, y1, y2). Pygame module sees them as (x1,y1, side_x, side_y), where x1 and y1 are the coordinates of the upper left point.
- Feel free to look it up. I would be glad to receive some feedback.
Source code in Python:
https://mega.co.nz/#!LskwhZKZ!nC9xIwrru ... g1bvGtepKc
Playable .exe demo:
https://mega.co.nz/#!P0ElSIwZ!-RhyYKpS2 ... 2HJZ1whQzw
I have no idea if its gonna work on other computers. Please tell me if some DLLs are missing.
What we have so far:
"Investigation tools" - If you select a building you get the general information about the workers or dwellers. However, if you select a particular person from a list you can get detailed information about his or her relatives. It seems the family-generating task is finally completely.
Artificial Intelligence - Not yet, really. Oh well, it took a couple of days to perfect the path-finding algorithm! It's not particularly perfect yet, but it is not weird too. I have a basic outline for the AI intelligence in future. The basic AI checklist is going to be the following: Alive = > Not sleeping = > Not in danger / stunned = > Not engaged in conversation = > No pain = > No social responsibilities (job, going from one location to another is also here) = > No hunger (finally something we really care about. Not implemented yet though. If a person gets hungry they go find some food, and until they reach the place their needs checklist will not advance farther than 'social responsibilities'.) = > No physical needs = > No desire to explore or play.
Right at the moment the 'humans' are simply walking from their home to their workplace, triggered by the fact that they are all late for work.
v0.02
- Added a bunch of keys. Not very well drawn, but seems to be working more or less properly as for now.
- Path-finding, placeholder for AI.
- The game is providing full data about the relatives of a selected human being.
- Highlight button simply highlights a human being if you want to be able to distinguish them from the others.
- Fixed lots of bugs.
v0.01
- a bird's view map
- clumsily generated families and family relations, in 2 lines of code you can estimate who was the granny of some particular character.
- clumsily generated streets and buildings.
- clumsily generated companies where the citizens are employed. Citizens have positions and salaries, correspondingly, which I have used to determine the clumsiness of the place where they live.
- a map. I like the map.
I probably should add clumsily generated trees but this is a pretty low priority as for now.
To-Do List:
Interior View - I am not really sure if it's a must, most likely I will make a really basic interface at first. Maybe will assign a couple of rooms (at least 2) for each building, so that it would be easier to write INVENTORY and AI parts in future, so that I would have something to base them on.
Inventory - human possessions and things stored in the house. The list will be derived from the human budget.
Company AI - companies will be assigning tasks to the workers. For example, go to another company and bring some sort of an object to their office. Will include work outside the building too.
Personal AI - lots and lots are to be done here. I will start with the basic outline of out checklist - Desire to sleep, desire to eat, receiving the danger signals from other humans, predators, objects.
Predator controls - right at the moment the predator is assumed to be invisible. They generate no danger signal, they do not have a physical body and is invisible to humans. To be honest, humans are invisible to other humans as well...as soon as I fix the later, I will lay my hands on predators as well.
Other things:
- save files.
- bigger families. Every nuclear family (small children + parents) lives in their own home now, and I think I should make their life more entertaining by letting the grandparents and possibly even cousins settle in with them.
- After that, I would certainly try to introduce some prey gameplay as well.
Screenshots:
Scan button. It provides a list of targets in the scan area and lets you select the one you are interested in. Later it will allow the player to interact with the target, right now you can simply get more data about the selected human being by clicking the Investigate button.
I finally finished the scroll 'bar'! Now the game provides user full data about family relations.
When you have many targets to choose from you can put the game on pause and look up all the names in the list.
Like that.
I was wondering if I should turn the image 45 degrees and add isometric pictures of the buildings. Not like I have them now, so I guess I will postpone it after all.
Controls:
W A S D - camera controls
Key UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT - Scan controls, future predator controls.
Oh, and thanks to Kreeyz for drawing the icon for this project!
