moggers87-games / lazycat

Because it's like laser but lazy

LazyCat

LazyCat! A cat with laser eyes hunts down some lasermice.

Build LazyCat

All builds require Haxe 4.x to be installed.

JS

Run the following:

make export/js

This will produce a JS file, a HTML file, and a zip file containing the former and license files.

Run make test-js to start a simple HTTP server that your browesr can connect to.

Hashlink

Install Hashlink and then run:

make export/hl

Run make test-hl to start the game.

Native binary

Hashlink's requirements and then run:

make export/native

Run make test-native to start the game.

Cross-compiling is not supported.

Build everything

If you have all requirements installed and ready you can run:

make

This will build all targets. You can also run:

make release

This will also build a source archive.

Clean

Run make clean to remove all builds. Run git clean -dfx to completely reset the repo.

Linting

To lint code, run:

make lint

lazycat's Issues

Mice should breed deterministically

More fun for speed runners

Include licenses and copyright notices

It's fine to distribute this repo as-is, but if I wanted to offer pre-compiled versions I would need to include the licenses of any bundled libraries.

Timer

Display a timer in the corner of the screen and display it as you "score" at the end of the game.

Pause on unfocus

TextScroller doesn't have an obvious way to go back

It's not obvious that you can go back

Music is too loud

Don't embed assets

On JS, loading assets when starting the game seems to take a while. As the whole JS file should already be loaded this shouldn't be an issue unless decoding those assets is taking too much time.

Investigate not embedding assets - at the very least not embedding the music.

Saved data on native platforms should go in correct place

Currently it goes in the current working directory, which is clearly wrong.

Mac produces 6 popups when running lazycat

Apparently you get a warning for every binary and library loaded, making for a total of 6 popups which is very annoying.

One way to stop this would be to statically compile all the Hashlink libs into our binary, which will (hopefully) reduce the popups to one.

Scrollbars for TextScroller

Maybe?

Game options

Configuration options like:

• change number or rate of duplication of mice (maybe turn that into a difficulty setting?)
• change controls (esp. once #16 is done)
• music volume

Test with touch devices

And make sure it works on mobile.

CI and CD

I'm always forgetting to lint and getting haxe working under Github actions would be useful for future larger projects

Better assets

I think we need better mice and a better cat.

Only copy over assets that are required

For example, the native build doesn't need MP3s and the JS build doesn't need OGGs

Native builds should cache hashlink between builds

https://github.com/actions/cache

Lasers should make a sound when firing

Windows native build

Shouldn't be too difficult but I don't know how much I'll need to use Windows native tools over cygwin

Keyboard controls

Some people might prefer that for various reasons.

Exit to main menu

Add Hashlink, SDL, etc. copyright notices to credits

We could either have these credits in on every build, or only for Hashlink and native builds.

Improve README

• build status pin
• instructions for building
  • just JS
  • just hashlink (and the requirement to install hashlink)
  • just native (and the requirement to install hashlink)
  • just bundle the source
• how to run lint
• what the clean rule does and doens't do

Sys builds should set CWD so assets can be found

Hashlink

Plus building native linux apps and exploring whether wasm would be helpful for load times

Instructions

We should have some instructions

Make menu items bigger

They're a bit small on mobile

Native builds should store build artifacts

Example: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/guides/storing-workflow-data-as-artifacts

Also we could have automatic upload of binaries for release: https://github.com/actions/upload-release-asset

Build failure on Hashlink

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Error: Process completed with exit code 100.

https://github.com/moggers87/lazycat/runs/1747328172

Bluh bluh apt-get

Git version macro

Could be useful

Asset manifest is not being populated

Example generated JS code:

		var loader = new lazycat_loader_ManifestLoader(new lazycat_loader_ManifestFileSystem("assets",haxe_io_Bytes.ofString("[]")));

Expected (ignore different paths):

		var loader = new cherry_res_ManifestLoader(new cherry_fs_ManifestFileSystem("assets",haxe_io_Bytes.ofString("[{\"original\":\"sprites.png\",\"path\":\"sprites.png\"},{\"original\":\"laser.mp3\",\"path\":\"laser.mp3\"},{\"original\":\"gaslampfunworks.mp3\",\"path\":\"gaslampfunworks.mp3\"}]")));

Something went wrong when we vendored the manifest loader from heeps, probably changes I made due to linting errors.

OpenAL device not being closed properly.

After every exit, I get this error:

AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed

I thought I'd fixed this when getting native builds working, but it appears not.