New Perl6 game: RetroRacer

(I’m really sorry for the name; I couldn’t think of anything better :))

This game, apart from (obviously) being a showcase for a new Steroids iteration, is all about switching lanes on a high traffic road in a fast car. Yay!

It’s really no rocket science compared to ThroughTheWindow from the last post – even code even looks similar. One obvious improvement (beside finally using proper PNGs instead of silly BMPs – timotimo++!) is a built-in collision detection:

my $s = self.add_sprite(‘othercar’, $_, 0); # … $s.when({ $_.collides_with($!player) }, { # … });

No more cheating with collisions like I did with ThroughTheWindow. The existing solution uses the entire image sprite as a hitbox; I’m hoping to make it customizable one day (it’s a simple thing really, code-wise).

All in all, the game isn’t all that much more sophisticated than the last one; I was really just looking for a good excuse to write a new game (and add some new stuff to Steroids), and I sort of came up with a nice theme to follow: ThroughTheWindow used just one key (spacebar), so the next step was to use two (thus RetroRacer) uses left and right arrow keys. What will the next game use? 3 keys? 4 keys? Is it an arithmetical or geometrical series? Oh my, I can’t wait to find out myself.

Now go and grab it at https://github.com/tadzik/RetroRacer, and don’t forget about the soundtrack!