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GemCrush and "Sprite Grid" extension beta

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#1

Hello world,

I tried to make a Bejeweled-like game in blocks and found it very difficult, so I created a “sprite grid” extension that can track sprites on a grid.

The extension is here (early beta): https://github.com/microsoft/arcade-grid

And the game is here: https://makecode.com/_RbDi9mYx6TwJ

Grid extension blocks:

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Cheers,
Daryl

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Boulders and Gems (work in progress)
Sprite grid extension error
#2

This sound very helpful. Could you group the blocks maybe? It’d be great to see a minimalistic example.

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#3

Here’s a much simpler example:

Directions to move
Hit A to swap the sprites
Hit B to call our current coordinates

#4

And now with better categories:

(blocks image update above)

#5

Some TODOs:

  • Doesn’t work with multiple sprites per location yet
  • Requires a tilemap to be present (although this might be a good thing)
  • Can get out of sync with real locations, e.g. if a sprite moves via velocity (which is actually done intentionally in GemCrush above and works well if used in combination with “snap”. But it could be confusing)
#6

The game is amazing. Period.

Only problems are that the gems occasionally don’t move down.

But still.

Amazing.

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#7

Thanks!!

If you see the problem again and notice anything weird that might have caused it, let me know!
I think it probably has to do with the speed of simulation and large physics updates happening between events firing sometimes. Or just a logic bug on my side.

#8

@darzu it also happened to me

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#9

Thanks, I got a repro now as well. I’ll look over the code when I get a chance

#10

Awesome game! I hope to see puyo puyo next. My personal favorite arcade game of all time.

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#11

Thanks! Nice! Seems kind of like multiplayer tetris?

A modern game that seems similar is “Tricky Towers”

#12

It’s sorta like if tetris met street fighter. For a long time I had a TV in my apartment dedicated to nothing but puyo puyo

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#13

Haha well it sounds like we need an arcade cabinet dedicated to puyo puyo in the team room!

#14

Oh yes for sure

#15

I think you should add some sound to your amazing game :slight_smile:

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#16

Hey, does this work with an 8 × 8 tilemap? (Not the color-coded extension one, using the regular tilemap APIs)

#17

Great question. I haven’t tested it with 8x8 (since it’s basically impossible right now to use 8x8 in blocks), but in theory it should work. Likely there’s a bug or two that would need to be fixed.

#18

Oh, and I forgot to say that I’ve been using it with an 8x8 tilemap and it works like a charm!

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#19

This looks very promising, but unfortunately the examples aren’t loading for me. I get A namespace declaration cannot be in a different file from a class or function with which it is merged errors in the JS console. Does it need to be updated?

#20

Yes sorry about that, we have a bug that we’re trying to fix shortly.

If you click “Edit Code” it should open okay