Bloom and grow

August 23, 2017

I completed my TODOs from yesterday: plants now grow in 4 directions (well, up to 4 directions) and blossom into flowers!

Latest video:

🎵 blossom of snow may you bloom and grow 🎵

I guess technically this is grow-and-blooming, but the blooms will turn into strawberries tomorrow, I think!

Implementation Notes

I chose a straightforward implementation that’s slightly broken in the following ways:

  1. Sometimes there are less than 4 growing stems:

  2. Sometimes a stem gets stuck and doesn’t end up blossoming:

I think I want to fix issue (1) and possibly also issue (2), but since it’s kind of a tricky problem, I decided I won’t fix them right away. I’m going to focus on finishing a simple version of the game first. After I get a mostly-good-enough version of that, I’ll work on polishing up the grow behavior!

Console debugging

I also added some debug functions that you can call via the DevTools console:

And I looked up how to add style to your console messages! The code is not super elegant:

const consoleStyle = 'color: #008751; font-size: 12px';
console.log('%c------------------------------------------------------', consoleStyle);
console.log('%c                Welcome to PLANTSIM', consoleStyle);
console.log('%c------------------------------------------------------', consoleStyle);
console.log('%c  You can use the following commands to debug:', consoleStyle);
const commandStyle = 'color: #FF004D; font-size: 12px';
console.log('%c  > %cworld.debugStep(n)%c: Draw n steps of the plant (must plant seed first)', consoleStyle, commandStyle, consoleStyle);
console.log('%c  > %cworld.bloom()%c: Try to draw flowers at the stems', consoleStyle, commandStyle, consoleStyle);

But it’s pretty fun!

TODOs for next time

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