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[Siquo]

Tonight I hope to complete a first working version of my Agricola-based game. It's a simple "gather resources"-"feed your family"-"expand your farm" type game with a time limit, and you get a score based on what you've accumulated in that time.

There's still a ton of stuff that needs to go in though, but I know that's exactly where most of my projects strand: bloat... 

[Blank Expression]

JS isn't capable of true multi-threading, unfortunately. It's far too high-level to give the developer any meaningful agency when it comes to memory management, process control, or other things of that nature.

It does, however, have event handling, so it is possible in theory to simulate multithreading by creating event callbacks which would perform particular calculations asynchronously, which would help stop intensive processes from causing the browser to become unresponsive.

What, you mean you don't like throwing setTimeout() calls everywhere?

(I kid, I kid.)

[Endek]

JS isn't capable of true multi-threading, unfortunately. It's far too high-level to give the developer any meaningful agency when it comes to memory management, process control, or other things of that nature.

It does, however, have event handling, so it is possible in theory to simulate multithreading by creating event callbacks which would perform particular calculations asynchronously, which would help stop intensive processes from causing the browser to become unresponsive.

What, you mean you don't like throwing setTimeout() calls everywhere?

(I kid, I kid.)

setTimeout()/setInterval() is indeed what I was talking about, yes

WebWorkers is perhaps a better way of doing it, but that isn't widely supported yet.

[Siquo]

Tonight I hope to complete a first working version of my Agricola-based game.

Ok, I lied, I've been playing TF2. Tomorrow! Maybe!

Oh, my segfault was a Neo. One of my guys kept managing to escape the world I made for him.

[SolarShado]

Oh, my segfault was a Neo. One of my guys kept managing to escape the world I made for him.

had a similar problem myself, off-by-one error implementing this map generator

[Siquo]

I forgot to change an x to an y whilst copypasting

Also, I accidentally learned something new nobody ever tells you: In C++, you *can* define template classes inside the cpp file if you only call them from elsewhere within that same file. Learning something new every day...

[salmonjockey]

I forgot to change an x to an y whilst copypasting

Also, I accidentally learned something new nobody ever tells you: In C++, you *can* define template classes inside the cpp file if you only call them from elsewhere within that same file. Learning something new every day...

The more general lesson, in case no one ever told you, is that there isn't really any difference between "the cpp file" and any other file. If you want, you can include a .cpp file in a .hpp file. The file endings are just conventions to aid structure and readability.

[Siquo]

Ah, but I know there's some really great advantages to splitting the two, and keeping them apart. Plus that I'm used to it by now. It's a good thing to do things "by the rules" at first, until you learn actually why that was a good idea.

Ok, I'm going to zip and upload the first release (after I've watched the Big Bang Theory with my gf), here's a screenie of my first highscore:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Siquo]

I'm disqualified. I couldn't even do it in 7 days. Damn you, TF2!


Even though, there we go, I hope it actually works on any machine other than mine:

http://www.siquo.net/pachter/Pachter_0.0.1.zip

Spoiler: Manual (click to show/hide)

Manual:

It's 1400 AD, northwestern Europe. You're controlling a farmer and his wife who leased a piece of land with their last money. Pacht is a form of leasehold that was common in those days, and a Pachter is farmer who "rents" that land. You've got 10 years to make the most of it.

You've got a large meadow, a fishing pond, a forest and a patch of bare limestone on your territory. Use those to your advantage.

There's the following resources: Grain, Vegetable, Wood, Clay, Rock, Food.
Food is made by cooking vegetables or baking bread from grain (wheat).


Tips:

Start by gathering some wood, and use that to build a fireplace. You need it to be able to bake and cook. Next, go into the forest and find some wild grains and vegetables. Build a plot, and plant them. After a while, you'll be able to harvest them, replant them or cook them. Going hungry is very bad, so first get that food-supply running before you expand.

Building more rooms will allow you to "create" more farmers. No, the scenes are not explicit.

A note about jobs: Planting, Harvesting, Cooking and Gathering all do a maximum of 5 items. So to plant 15 vegetables, you have to do the plant vegetable command 3 times. Also, keep your plots small. Your farmer will continue to till the soil even when hungry, severely dropping your score.


Unimplemented:

The jobs menu shows you the job queue and a rough percentage of completion per active job. There's no job canceling or prioritising, yet.

The score menu and people menu don't exist, yet.



Scoring:
Your people like walking around. Doing nothing will increase your score. Idlers also get hungry twice as slow.
Your people hate going hungry. Hungry people will turn red and your score will drop significantly. Cook some food already.
Rock and Clay are useless, for now.
You get scorepoints for Grain, Vegetables (in your house, not in your fields!), Buildings and Plots.
You get scorepoints for having a bigger family.

Good luck. (well not really, there's hardly any randomness in the whole game, if you lose, it's because you played bad)

[mendonca]

he he he ... I got 439 points -> wasn't sure what I was doing.

Then I got 368, when I knew a little bit more.

My version only seems to last a year ... did I download the demo?


if it's any consolation this is definitely my favourite entry so far ...  but joking aside, it's a neat concept! Look forward to seeing it progress!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is where I am, if a screen shot of this type means anything ... (what do you mean it's not february?) ... I am probably about 8 hours in, re-using a load of code, so if I behave fairly I maybe have a days worth of coding left.

I have a framework for giving orders to units with mouse clicks, scrolling screen, pausing the screen, generating a random map (loads of useless attribute at the mo), and field of view from multiple sources, presented on a 'faction by faction' basis.

click the map and they walk (currently at a fixed speed) to a spot, which gets marked by a little red circle for the selected unit only. Pathing currently is limited.

I suppose the next step is to add (fixed) enemies, and start shooting at them, with guns as dictated by the properties of a firearm class and an ammo class, all as stored in actor.equipment and actor.nventory ...

[Siquo]

Damnit, that was for testing the gameover screen

Fixed now, you may redownload.
Hmm, over 10.000 points is doable.

I could still compete, I'll just be "reusing" my knowledge of this project. Or expand on this one, there's a ton of stuff that could be added. hm.

[mendonca]

Cool thanks. It works now - nice to see the thing progress year on year, it's quite a pleasant experience.

Unfortunately haven't got through to game over yet due to (unknown?) crashes, but yeah, it's cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Siquo]

Crashes?! Damnit.

[Biag]

Ohhh kay, I should have posted a bit earlier about this. Sorry, guys! I really do read each and every post.

TO EVERYONE STARTING EARLY:
Go for it, maybe I'll toss up a "January Honorable Mentions" thing or somesuch. If there are enough of you, of course. Follow the guidelines, etc.

@Siquo: downloading now. Great concept!

[Willfor]

I am going to be starting one tomorrow. It's going to be a delicious failure, but what-have-you.