pulkomandy / critical-mass

A game of chain reactions taking place in a nuclear reactor.

Critical Mass

Critical Mass is a game taking place in a nuclear reactor. Your goal is to keep the reaction under control by carefully placing protons and creating chain reactions.

Critical Mass can be played with a friend or against the computer, with different AI levels.

Critical Mass runs on the Haiku operating system.

Downloads

This game is available in HaikuDepot.

critical-mass's Issues

Network play

Critical Mass is much more fun when playing against humans - the computer always wins!

On the implementation side we need:

• CMBoard must be a BArchivable or BFlattenable so we can send it accross the network
• A server, to list players waiting for an opponent (it's better if the game itself happens in P2P).
• Make sure there's no cheating (change made in the new CMBoard is allowed) and things don't get out of sync between players.

The AI is already running in separate threads, which is a good start for this but may not be enough.

Downloads link is broken

The downloads link on https://github.com/pulkomandy/critical-mass gives me a 404 error .

Albert Einstein is CPU Hungry

These two screenshots show the my CPU usage against A.I and Albert Einstein . As soon as I change my Blue Player to Albert the CPU hikes up .
Probably we need a super computer to process Albert's Brain quickly :P

Incorrect SOURCE_FILENAME in criticalmass-2.2.recipe

If you have a look at SOURCE_FILENAME in the recipe file you realize that it is incorrect .

More Themes

Critical-mass just offer's a single a theme and there are no additional themes .
Few new themes which have new icons for protons and new board will be great .

Option to change grid size is missing

Right now the game offers 5 x 5 grid but it would be great if the user can choose to set random number of tiles .

Add some background music.

Use Sawteeth, of course!

SaveGame

Introduce SaveGame so that later user can again start from where they left it.

Introduce Score-Board

The game offer's 2 player's to compete with each other .
A score-board which could keep a track of number of wins would be a amazing enhancement .

Add animations

Have some animations on the atoms (rotating electrons) and on the chain reactions (jumping protons).

Can change Blue Player mid-game

I started playing against Albert Einstein but now that my sister saw me playing she asked me if she can join too . Now that the game does offer's 2 players . I changed Blue Player (Albert Einstein to Human) but to my surprise she was able to continue the old game .
A new game should have started ,this is so unfair :p