Generally Accepted Approach to Creating Game Objects

moonrabbit · February 2, 2019, 10:57am

Hi,

I’m just starting out with heaps, it seems promising so far but I have a quick question. What is the generally accepted approach to making a Player character, for example? Is it fine to just have a Player class that extends Bitmap and add that to s2d?

Thanks in advance

moonrabbit · February 2, 2019, 2:24pm

Doing some more research, I found that all of the demo games on the heaps.io website seem to follow deepnight’s tutorials (http://deepnight.net/tutorials/), which, I don’t think really fits my purpose? So, I guess I’ll just find my own way that works for me. If there’s a different way you use, please feel free to share

bacon · February 6, 2019, 5:03pm

You already found deepnight’s stuff, so this might not be helpful, but I tend to follow a lot of their open source ludum dare projects for heaps best practices (as they made dead cells). To your question, their Entity class is a pretty good template to start from:

github.com

deepnight/ld41-nightclubShowdown/blob/master/src/Entity.hx

import mt.MLib;
import mt.heaps.slib.*;
import mt.deepnight.Lib;

class Entity {
	public static var ALL : Array<Entity> = [];

	public var game(get,never) : Game; inline function get_game() return Game.ME;
	public var hero(get,never) : en.Hero; inline function get_hero() return Game.ME.hero;
	public var level(get,never) : Level; inline function get_level() return Game.ME.level;
	public var fx(get,never) : Fx; inline function get_fx() return Game.ME.fx;
	public var destroyed(default,null) = false;
	public var cd : mt.Cooldown;
	public var tmod : Float;

	public var spr : HSprite;
	public var debug : Null<h2d.Graphics>;
	public var label : Null<h2d.Text>;
	var cAdd : h3d.Vector;
	var lifeBar : h2d.Flow;

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