{"id":40,"date":"2013-03-31T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guvstuff.wordpress.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-08-16T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:35:03","slug":"one-off-the-list-dolphin-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"One off the List: Dolphin Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dolphin Fun is a simple side-scroller for Android I wrote with artistic direction given by my seven year old daughter. Game play is simple: eat fish without running out of air, and don’t get hit by the boat. Not terribly exciting, but a good programming exercise, and my daughter enjoyed seeing some of her ideas being implemented. If nothing else I have been able to show her one does not have to sit passively in front of our devices, simply consuming other people’s work. We can do our own thing.<\/p>\n

In truth, I spent more time fussing with sprite sheets than writing code, but was able to cobble something together that has recognizable fish, boats, and a dolphin. The sprites<\/a> are all from free game art<\/a> sites, and sound effects from Sound Bible<\/a> and elsewhere<\/a>. The boats are from Shipbucket<\/a>, which has some truly amazing<\/a> illustrations<\/a> of things that float.<\/p>\n

Collision detection is primitive,\u00a0 game play is somewhat clunky, and parts of the code are begging to be rewritten, so I guess I have to keep my day job. I’ve only scratched the surface of Android, but am looking forward to doing another app in the future, maybe an isometric<\/a> something-or-other. If time allows, I will try to put it up into Jenkins and write some acceptance tests to run on a headless emulator.<\/p>\n

There is an excellent tutorial here<\/a> for anyone looking for a good place to start with Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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