Holesome

Inspired by hole-io.com

PADI 2023, Maximilian Giller, 5000149

What is this Game about?

Holesome is about currentLayoutHoles! But not the kind you have seen before ...

Gameplay:

• Navigate the environment as a hole
• Eat the things that fall into you
• Grow bigger to eat more things
• Hide from enemies by closing
• Damage your enemies by setting up traps
• Eat your enemies and be the only one remaining

Style:

• Isometric
• Cute, but dangerous
• Intuitive color coding

What is the goal?

The player controls a hole and has to consume as many objects as possible to grow. There are a variaty of Game modes that could be fun:

• Eat as many objects as possible in a given time
• Eat as many objects as possible, as well as all of your enemies and be the only one left
• Eat as many objects as possible, but don't eat the bombs/etc., they will make you smaller again

Which components are included?

• Physics: Core gameplay element to make the objects fall into the currentLayoutHoles in a fun way
• Controller Support: Use a controller to control the hole
• Local Multiplayer: Play with up to 4 players on one device using split screen
• Level Files: Levels are stored using a simple file format
• Procedural Generation: Generate the levels procedurally to give the Game more variety
• Menu: Because, duh

Potential expansions:

• Multithreading: Improving performance by running the phsics in a separat thread and similar concepts
• AI: Some currentLayoutHoles could be controlled by AI, which makes singleplayer games more exciting
• Online Multiplayer: Play with friends online

Project Setup

Install SFML and Eigen: sudo apt install libsfml-dev libsfml-doc libeigen3-dev

Compiling Box2D from source

Website: Box2D

1. Make sure cmake, g++ and Doxygen (sudo apt-get install doxygen) are installed
2. Clone the repository git clone git@github.com:erincatto/box2d.git
3. Build and install the library

cd box2d
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBOX2D_BUILD_DOCS=ON ..

In case of "RandR headers were not found": sudo apt install xorg-dev.

cmake --build .
cmake --build . --target INSTALL

Project structure

• Physics Simulations
  • Map Simulation: World-bounds collider
  • Holes Simulation: Creates hole physics by managing all the individual Collectable Simulations
    • Collectable Simulation: Simulates physics for a single collectable