Iso Worlds / Not dash's (me) Adventure
This readme is written as bunch of articles/log (whatever this can be called) rather than technical documentation.
Log 1 : April 6 2022
Story
This was a flutter hack project which I wasn't able to submit on time (I was late (┬┬﹏┬┬) because I didn't realise daylight savings time was a thing as it didn't apply to me being in IST timezone). Either way this was my 2nd major-ish Flutter project ever and first time I have interacted with flutter framework to make a game.
Idea for the game : IsoWorlds as in name is a isometric 2D world where you have a line source which projects a line into the world which has to reach ending box using series of mirrors which can be moved as tiles in a puzzle. My vision for the game was to make it accessible to community, so people can make their own levels and be able to share it in their own way. Ahmm ahmm, obviously too bold of a task to be done a few weeks when I started to build the game towards the end of flutter hack.
Screenshots (were taken on real android device) :
Older Editor Version showing level creation
Level Player with no HUD
Challenges while making the game 🚧
Due to how flutter was made making a isometric real game was not an easy task to be done from scratch (specially at my level of experience with the framework and 3 weeks of offtime development). My inital Guess list of requirements which needed to be built was -
- Way to cache and import tilesheet/Spritesheet
- Grid calculation for isometric view
- Gesture detection ? (I don't even know how to start to implement this)
- Figure out
PanningandZooming? Maybe moving and scaling every single sprite that was displayed? - Maybe a gameloop?
- State management (Bloc and MVVM ain't gonna cut it)
- Layered rendering of Sprites? priorities?
- Level Export and Import format
- Maybe Spritesheets can be imported too with levels?
Yup this was my actual initial List of todos. Fortunately, I was kinda aware about game development space I remembered hearing about Flame Engine. Its an awesome project which not only eliminated many of development headache but it has an awesome community.
As always, with a new architecture of flame engine I was basically a chicken with no head trying to build an isometric game in flutter.
Just a screenshot of very early basic design implementation of level editor. As you can tell from date 25.02.22 I was pretty close to deadline with very less work done :P
PS : The windows build doesn't work anymore for very random reason which I didn't bother to fix maybe I will soon as I contribute to flame engine as use this as dummy project.
Basics
The important blocks to be noticed
| Main Blocks | Type | Direction |
|---|---|---|
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End Block | Any |
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Source Block | North East |
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Source Block | North |