After over a year of inactivity, I’ve finally gone back to my little Chomper Stomper Game. It’s a google gadget, and actually it’s not a game. It’s kind of like a tamogachi.
There’s a guy at my work who is trying to learn how to program. Somehow or another he stumbled upon my site. I showed him my game and he downloaded the source code and tried to modify it. He was having some trouble, so we went through and figured it out together.
This rekindled my interest in the game, and today over lunch I did a little modifying myself. I refactored the clock methods to be more clean and intuitive (these are the methods that control when the timed events happen, like the rubies falling etc. These are located in the Clock.as file). I also made it so that the sky would change with the time of day. Now when I get to work in the morning the sun is just drifting in from the left side of the screen. Then when five oclock hits it’s just drifting out of the right side. It’s fun to be able to look up and know approx. what time it is by seeing the sun in the sky of my imaginary world. My next goal is to get the cloads to go away at night and have stars come out.
I’ve got lots of other plans as well. I forgot how much fun it was working on this thing.
For some reason it never showed up in the Google Gadgets directory, or in the Google Desktop directory. Maybe once I get it working to the point where someone else might want to play with it I’ll remedy that.
I also set up a Subversion repository for it. It’s located at http://subversion.chomperstomp.com/chomperStomp/. It’s open to the public to check out from it if you are interested. If anyone mods it they are welcome to send me their changes and I’ll incorporate with credit given to the modder.
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