Oh we’ve got two sprouts now
August 22, 2017
Now there are two randomly growing stems!
- Live demo here: Same as last time: click within the top half of the soil to plant a seed, then keep clicking the
<canvas>to make the plant grow from the seed! But now with two (2!) semi-randomly growing stems. - Source code at this point in history
Latest video:
Implementation Notes
It’s really fun to figure out the algorithm for strawberry pixel plant growth! It’s being driven from my pixel art, actually. I start drawing a random pixel strawberry plant, then I try to figure out what decisions I’m making as I’m manually making a pretty pixel picture. Then I try to figure out how to code them up!
I rewrote the guts of the Plant class today to get both stems growing:
- The
Plantis composed of different parts, starting with a singleStalk. - When the
Stalkis fully grown, it creates twoStems. - Right now the two
Stems will grow and grow and grow until they get stuck, but in the next versions I’ll add logic to do the following:- a) Make the plant split into 2 more
Stems, for a total of 4 - b) Blossom into flowers after 7-10 steps
- c) Grow from flowers to strawberries!
- a) Make the plant split into 2 more
At some point I’ll also play around with adding little leaves and smaller offshoot stems for appearance.
Pixel Art Notes
Drew a little more concept art, to help me understand how plants should grow:
Also decided on colors for the “unripe” strawberries!
TODOs for next time
Basically what I wrote in the implementation notes!
- Generate 2 more
Stems for a total of 4 - Blossom into flowers after 7-10 steps
- Perhaps spawn a new
Stemif one of them get stuck before 7-10 steps
- Perhaps spawn a new