This is a simple flappy bird copy, inspired by Kenney's tappy plane spritesheet.
I didn't put much love and care on this project as I just wanted to get acquainted with Java and all motivation was gone once this learning plateaued 🫠
There are many things that could have been done better here. Some thoughts:
In order to get it done fast I embraced the C developer in me and decided to code it all in one go. Thinking I'd love to refactor later. Not the case! I'll leave it as is 😛
The concepts of Engine/Framework are mixed with game logic. This could be split in a better way.
Also game objects are mixed with scenes and input handlers.
Rocks are triangular but have a rectangular collision box. So sometimes the plane crashes with stones even when many pixels distance from them.
Solutions might include use rectangular shapes (like flappy bird's pipes) or adopt two collision rectangles for each rock, so the tip could have a smaller collision box.
There are no sound effects. I was actually pretty upset to find out how cheap Java's native sound libraries are by not supporting various codecs, even free/oss ones such as Vorbis (ogg).
Probably due to licensing.
Many things I've done by hand and I don't like it: calculate the middle of the screen, delay between updates, mutating state...
I wish I had a timer that could schedule actions (without needing to add a thread) and a state machine that could properly manage state and its constraints.
This could have been done manually, yes. But... kein Bock.
Feel free to submit Pull Requests, if they don't break the game they'll be accepted 😉
Don't bother posting issues. I'm not interested in improving this game.
This work is released under the GNU General Public License v3. So you can do whatever you want with the code – as long as you make it open to others too.
See LICENSE for more details.
