A Gravity Guy clone by @viluon, an entry for CCJam 2016.
I joined CCJam because of two reasons. First, I haven't attended a similar competition before, and second, because I believed (and still believe) that there is a shortage of great ComputerCraft games. Multiplayer is one of the most crucial features of Minecraft, and in extension, of ComputerCraft as well, but there is just a handful of decent games for CC, and very very few of them (if any) have multiplayer. The capabilities of ComputerCraft devices are well beyond those of early personal computers from the last century, and yet somehow the latter beats the former as a gaming platform. We, ComputerCraft players, need to fix this. We need more multiplayer games. We need more "wow" games (this is easier than ever with the new teletext characters). We need more games that are actually fun, and not just "this must have been hard to implement".
Gravity Girl was born as a result of that need (and I thought it'd make a good entry for CCJam). Using the BLittle API by Bomb Bloke to enhance resolution, bump.lua by @kikito for bulletproof collision detection, and Gravity Guy, a title loved by casual gamers as its template, it is the choice number #1 whenever you want to challenge your fellow ComputerCrafters, or just kill time while your turtle makes its way back to the surface.
Given the limited time for CCJam, I was not able to test everything everywhere. There is still a lot to do, fix, and improve. In other words, Gravity Girl is still very much a work in progress. What matters the most, however, is that the UI was only tested on computers. That is, I didn't try running it on a monitor, turtle, or a PDA. Since pretty much everything counts with term.getSize(), it should all scale up rather well, but the opposite might not be true.
The easiest way to get Gravity Girl currently is to use @apemanzilla's gitget, with this command:
pastebin run W5ZkVYSi viluon CCJam-2016And then run the game with the r script (all that it really does is it launches menu.lua in a pcall).
Optionally, if you'd like to try out the latest version of the game, you can get yourself the after-jam branch, which includes a few patches to bugs included in the CCJam release.
pastebin run W5ZkVYSi viluon CCJam-2016 after-jamThe path variable of gitget CLI can be used to install Gravity Girl somewhere else than root.
pastebin run W5ZkVYSi viluon CCJam-2016 after-jam "/Gravity Girl/"