Really Cool Game dude. Although I'm not really good at it, the gameplay's really good. Now if only I can understand raycasting(i don't even know what the science of colliding particles is). Damn the 3d's awesome in this thing too. You also had a menu with prompts. This game's complete af
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks! This actually doesn't use raycasting per se (raycasting is more of a rendering technique for calculating the colors of screen pixels).
Everything in this game is controlled by a physics simulation (using Box2D, a physics library) where the particles are small circles, the player is a circle, the walls are polygons, and they collide and interact based on physical parameters I've set like mass, density, and friction.
Here's what it looks like under the hood. Definitely interesting to make games this way - it adds a certain dynamicism that's hard to achieve without 'real' physics:
1 year ago(+1)
That's interesting! I've been brainstorming ways to expand on this concept, and adding other types of particles is an interesting approach. The neat thing about virus particles (in the context of Meltdown) would be that if they infected some kind of biological "host" object, then that object would start emitting the particles too. So you could kind of chain the particles from one thing to another (by infecting new things) in a way you can't really with nuclear radiation. I'll add it to my list, thanks :)