Hack-A-Day, Day 20: Hillsfar Lockpicking Spritesheet

For today’s hack-a-day, I meant to clone the Hillsfar lockpicking minigame. Instead, I spent all day just extracting the sprites. But I had a nice chill time, so it was great.

Edit: See the updated post for the finished game.

Here’s the original minigame:

Here’s my spritesheet:

I made it by splitting up screenshots:

Hack-A-Day: Hack-An-MMO

It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!

This is November 30th, so this will be the last project.

Today’s project is Hack-An-MMO (demo, source). It’s a small collaborative art RPG. You can draw people, places, and things to populate the tiny world. Have fun!

Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Battle

It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!

Yesterday’s project was Hack-A-Battle (demo, source). It’s two dueling music visualizers (sound warning!). Red vs blue. As each hits the other with bullets, they lose heath. As a band takes damage, it gets dimmer and quieter. Eventually one band will win out and be the only one playing.

I thought this was a cool idea, but I’m not really happy with the implementation

  • It’s a little laggy, especially when explosions happen.
  • It’s probably a little too fast of a battle.
  • I wanted to the things coming out to actually be linked to a music visualizer, which I almost had time to do.
  • It would have been better if the “bands” took turns playing instead of both going at once, for the poor listener.
  • It requires a fairly big display, and beefy computer/phone. It doesn’t work well on a small screen at all.
  • I wasn’t super pleased with the code. It was so-so
  • I wanted you to be able to upload your own songs and duel a friend

Hack-A-Day: Hack-A-Tile

It’s november, and I’ve decided this month that I’m going to do 30 projects in 30 days. It’s an all-month hack-a-thon!

Today’s project is Hack-A-Tile (demo, source). It’s a tile-matching game like dominos.

Hack-A-Tile is based on mathematical Wang tiles. It was very tempting to call it Hack-A-Wang.

If I update it, I would

  • Zoom out as you go. I think that would look cool!
  • Animate shifting over. Right now adding tiles on the top or left is visually confusing.
  • Change the tiles. These are fun mathematically, but not ideal for a game
  • Either add a maximum size, or some constraint to stop you just making one long line.