What? Why? How?!

"Prove you're a Robot" provides similar drawing mechanics to the Planetegem Painter, but this time with a clear objective for the player: a prompt is requested from the Prompt Generator project. The player then needs to try and draw what was prompted.

Important for this game was that there needed to be a community aspect: a combination of prompt and drawing needed to be saved on the server, so players would be able to share their art with each other. Other than that, it was mostly just finetuning of the methods used in the Planetegem Painter and the Prompt Generator.

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What? Why? How?!

I wanted 2 things from this project: (1) an excuse to familiarize myself with Typescript and (2) a playground to have fun with maze generation algorithms.
This meant a simple framework to add new algorithms, as I didn't want to have to revisit the base mechanics of the page whenever I wanted to add a new algorithm.

The result was achieved with an object-oriented approach. A basic class provides the methods to generate a coordinate field and draw the maze on a canvas, which is then extended with the algorithm that generates the maze (the recursion method). An animation function takes a maze class as argument.
When calling the constructor of the maze class, a 3D array is created to represent the maze (a 2D maze extended along a time dimension). The animation function then uses the internal draw method of the class to interpret the 2D maze on a canvas, as it changes along the time dimension.

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What? Why? How?!

A prompt generator would be an integral part in my next game, which I wanted to build in PHP.
I knew that I would need lists of words which could be combined by an algorithm to create prompts. For this reason, I chose to use an SQL database to contain these lists.

To be able to create the lists of words, I first built an interface. Logging in gives the user access to a form to add new words with specific parameters. Entries can also be updated or deleted if necessary.
Once the interface was there, I got to work on the algorithm, which consists of 2 parts: (1) a javascript side which requests words and combines them and (2) a php side which handles the request and responds with an object pulled from the MySQL db. For easy testing, I made the 2 sides communicate at every step, so you can follow the thinking process in the console.

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What? Why?!

I had several ambitions for this game:
(1) I wanted a game where you had to navigate procedurally generated mazes (2) with pixel perfect collision detection (3) and gameplay changing from level to level (i.e. top-down navigation, into a platformer, into a gravity tumbler).
Having practically no coding experience at the time, this was a major challenge.

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