Mystic Balloon - 9th TEAM a.r.g. game (39 levels)

Great game!
When i complete damn 29th I take a breath.
WRONG!
I finished 30th level 2 hour ago. It take 2 full recharge to gain the “touch of climb”.

Now I can study the code to understand what I see during game. For now, I don’t understand vec2 struct, but with a little step I’m pretty sure to get something.

Marco
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Thanks @Nono_Nano, @Gaveno is on a trip to Europe, but when he’s back I’m pretty sure he’s willing to explain the vec2. :slight_smile:

It looks like it implements a vector and code to handle operations over that vector, for example vector1+=vector2;

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I can help there. If I had a pound for every time I’ve had to write a vector I’d be able to afford a few more steam games.

A vector in mathematical terms is a multi-component object that represents a direction in cartesian coordinates (x, y, z etc). (It can also be used to represent a space).

In the case of this vec2, it’s a two-dimensional direction using ints.

It has a default constructor that initialises x and y to 0:
vec2() : x(0), y(0) {}

It has a regular constructor accepting an x and y value with which to initialise x and y with.
vec2(int vx, int vy) : x(vx), y(vy) {}
This can be used like so: vec2 v = vec2(34, -10);

It has a += operator which allows you to add vectors together.
vec2 a = vec2(4, 5); a += vec2(6, 5); // a is now vec2(10, 10)
It also has a -= operator for subtraction, a free-function + operator and a free function - operator.

The assignment-operators modify the left hand side, whilst the free-function operators take two values and return a third completely new value. (Or at least that should be the case, but from the looks of things it’s going to result in the lhs argument being modified because it’s a reference instead of a value).

There’s also a copy-assignment operator (though I’m not sure why it’s there, I’m pretty certain the compiler should generate that automagically).

And lastly for some reason the << operator and >> operator were provided to give it left and right shift functionality. First time I’ve ever seen that on a vetor. Presumably it’s supposed to be a means of doing cheap division and multiplication by powers of two.

Any questions?

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The copy assignment operator was just because my C++ teacher always made a stink about including it. Lol.
Bit shift operators are because I used a lot of fixed point arithmetic for game objects.

I just created this vector struct to handle coordinates of game objects. Good suggestion on the + and - operators. You’re right, those should return a third copy as opposed to modifying the lhs.

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How can I compile the GitHub source code into one of those .ino files? I’m running Ubuntu. The .arduboy uploader only works on Windows so I can’t use an .arduboy file at all. However, I did get the Arduino IDE up and running. Could someone help me get this game on my Arduboy?


TL;DR: I can’t use the new .arduboy file format on my computer. How do I make it an .ino file?

Thank’s @eried @Pharap @Gaveno, now I understood. I was locked on “default contructor”.

@SuperRed38 After dowload zip from Github, inside ther’s a folder called “MYBL_AB” whith compilable code for Arduino IDE.

Marco

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Thank you! :grinning: I’ll try that out right now!

:wink: Until level 28, is hard but fresh water compared to 29 and 30.

Your C++ teacher was probably trying to teach you something good but not understanding it properly. You only need to write a custom copy-assignment operator if either the compiler can’t generate one for some reason or if you’re writing a class that handles dynamic memory allocated with new or malloc so you can correctly copy the resource.

If you really want to include it though, usually using the = default syntax is the easiest way thanks to C++11.

That makes sense. I tend to use a separate class for fixed points.

That’s one of the reasons I avoid the old 'implement operator + using operator +=’ idiom. It’s shorter and it works, but it’s easier to accidentally get it wrong than making operator + standalone.

They’re worth knowing about. I like using en.cppreference for reading into C++'s quirks.

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@Pharap Thank’s for the link.

Marco

Hello, Guys.

I have a Mac and I cant find the source code for Mystic Balloon. On the Github, there is no .ino file on the source zip.

Can somebody help me, please?

Thanks and best Regards,
Nathan

Download the .zip file from here

Thank you very much!

AND @Gaveno gaves us an other update with 9 extra levels and graphic improvements

  1. 9 extra levels (total of 39 levels)
  2. updated the “save” function
  3. parallax background
  4. extra tiles for narrower walls

http://www.team-arg.com/mybl-downloads.html

watch it, this update changes the place of the saved game, so you’ll lose progress when updating to this version !

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Will try this, thanks for the good work.

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Can’t import the .arduboy file. In Team A.r.g. uploader the MYBL_AB_v17 appears as Version 1.6 after importing and the uploader crashes. Craigs uploader generates a warning and can’t import the file either.

Oh man I have been playing this on my spare arduboy for a week now. I do not want to loose my progress. :wink:

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I think there’s a program somewhere that you can use to backup your EEPROM.

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