Nagval333 This is the first time I've heard of a game being stolen, especially around here. Usually game designers are too focused on bringing to life their own creations. Good work protecting your stuff, well done!

Hello my awesome fellow Construct community people!

I have released a shareware alpha version of my Chomp 'N' Cheeky game. You can play it here:

Click here to play Chomp 'N' Cheeky (Shareware)

This is the shareware, which means that I am allowing people to play a portion of the game for free. The shareware version is currently in browser. The full version is not released and is still in development but will be available on desktop before I optimise it for mobile.

KNOWN ISSUES

This version is currently alpha so please expect the following:

1. Currently no sound or music. This will be added but I am not ready to do that yet!

2. The graphics are not final. I plan on enhancing the graphics once I have completed adding all features and content in the full version (I will also be looking for graphics designer to help me out here).

3. The game play is complete but still open to enhancements where needed.

4. I do not have any plans for multi-player because this is my first commercial game.

5. If you find any bugs, please use the in-game bug report form to report them.

6. Only compatible via PC at the moment. Mobile compatibility is planned after full version is complete.

7. It is recommended to view the game in full screen!

SUPPORTING ME

I am streaming live development work of Chomp 'N' Cheeky weekdays starting 9:00AM on Twitch for 7 hours up until 4:00PM Australian Sydney time. Your support would be much appreciated!

Click here for my Twitch channel to support me with your contribution live and daily!

Note: I started streaming on the 8th of July. I do save recent broadcasts, so feel free to check out my VODs there if you want to catch up, but you can also tune in between 9:00AM and 4:00PM Monday to Friday Australian Sydney time to be with me while I work on the game!

Click here for my Twitter to get regular updates!

Click here for my YouTube Channel to get video updates!

Note: I have not yet uploaded any videos on Chomp 'N' Cheeky yet, but I will be uploading a video soon to log a video update on a minor release I did last week. The two videos I currently have there are reviewing someone else's video game which I was doing before I started streaming. It might be something I do on the side to help other game designers as well but I need to get more organised before making that decision.

Just following me is much appreciated, especially on Twitch since most of my content is on there.

PLANS

Currently, I am still enhancing the shareware version of the game before continuing level development in the full version.

There's a lot of people around this forum that I want to thank for their help. I plan on adding their names to my game's credits feature when I get around to making it. I will be in touch around here looking for certain users' permission to put their name in the credits (even if it's just a forum username it's fine).

If anyone else is streaming Construct developing their games, please let me know, I'll be happy to support them too as much as I can!

I hope you lovely people enjoy the game!

Any questions? Just let me know!

Please allow us to add thread labels or prefixes - for example in the How Do I forum, you could allow thread authors to add a prefix for their thread like "need help" or "solved", etc. This would be editable only by thread authors and moderators+.

Thanks Plinkie. That made a lot more sense.

I just have one more question then - How do I keep the variable updated then?

For example my levels go like this - "Level_<number>" How can I just set the variable g_level which is a number variable to the number after the _ in the layout name?

First of all I would need to check to see if the player is on a layout starting with "Level_" then if so, set it to the number after the underscore. I'm hoping to have a condition that checks this as an expression and then have an action that would set the variable to the number after _ - but I don't know how to do that.

Ahh, I know what's causing the infinite loop. I created this:

i.imgur.com/wAnekPp.png

So when I disabled i_CurrentDirection = i_TargetDirection condition on Change_Chomp_Direction it exceeds the call stack.

I've had a look at your example. Unfortunately my project is too complicated to restructure around that at this current point. I will look at major restructure options because I do believe I could clean a lot of this up, and I could use your help with that of course, but at the moment with the way I have designed my game, this is the only thing I need to do for enemy AI so I can finish all of my levels off.

What I've done is re-enable the disabled condition and disabled the event that was causing the infinite loop (I'll probably end up deleting it). So now he is back to only getting stuck if the tile checker sprite chooses a direction where an obstacle already is. It seems like he is picking an unsuitable direction after it gets deleted from the array.

I think it's best if I send you my project so you can see all of it properly so you can tell me what's going wrong here. I know I'm really close to getting this right, I just keep making the wrong turn with it so I don't think it will take too much of your time.

I'm sorry for such a simple question, but I can't seem to find a straightforward answer to this.

My AI enemies choose a target direction to face before moving.

I have one tilechecker sprite that checks for obstacles before allowing my AI enemies to face and move in said direction.

With that, I have an array where my enemies will keep track of all of their possible directions they can face.

If the tilechecker covers an obstacle, they need to remember that they cannot go in that direction anymore so that target direction is deleted from the array before checking for another suitable direction until it finds a clear direction to start facing. This is to prevent enemies rotating to face a direction they cannot go in and look silly.

I want my enemies to pick a random available direction that is in the array, but I am doing this a bit wrong I think.

Whenever I set i_TargetDirection to random(enemy.IndexOf(enemy.i_TargetDirection))

Instead of picking these values:

i.imgur.com/F6OXtpg.png

It picks these values:

i.imgur.com/vig1hlI.png

Or in the case of the above expression example it actually randomises the number like 0.5234523452345 and ignores the fact that I want to select from the enemy's instance variable.

What's weird about this is I can choose to delete the value accurately with Self.IndexOf(Enemy.i_TargetDirection) on the array object. But how do I randomly pick a range of values stored in the array and not the element number? If I delete the element number, the element numbers re-count themselves and it changes, the values stored don't do this, and my enemy gets stuck going into an obstacle they can't move through because the wrong value was deleted from the array.

Also for your information, the i_TargetDirection values mean the following:

0 = idle (This is not seen in the array because it is not a value that is used to tell the character to face a direction)

1 = right

2 = Down

3 = Left

4 = Up

Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks!