Monthly Archives: June 2009

I’m pleased to present my entry to the RubyWeekend #3 game competition: Droplet. From the README: Droplet is a small musical toy created by John Croisant in 72 hours over the weekend of June 26-28, 2009 for the third RubyWeekend game creation competition. The theme of the competition was “A Tiny World”. The inspiration for [...]

What’s working: Plants have a limited number of generations, so they don’t start to slow everything down. Plant colors, branch length, and various other attributes are randomized per plant for more variety. You can rustle the plants by moving your mouse cursor around them. This makes them wave back and forth for a while, and [...]

A quickie progress update and screenshot of my RubyWeekend game, Droplet. What’s working: You can click to make a new plant at the nearest point on the circle. The plants grow a bit when you press spacebar. The plants grow and create new branches based on rules. What’s not: The plants are ignoring their color [...]

I’m calling my RubyWeekend #3 game “Droplet”. I will not proceed to ramble about it to help my planning. And you get to read the results, you lucky person you! I’m setting aside the animals/people aspect for the competition. It’s just going to be about the plants. I’m going to use Garage Band’s built-in instruments [...]