[MMc] Solar Golfing - Victory

Solar Golfing

Solar Golfing is now playable, which means that I won the game jam. The tutorial solar system contains multiple planets, moons, asteroids, and the final wormhole. There are multiple paths through the system and the tutorial is designed to implicitly teach the concepts of the game (except: don't shoot your ball into empty space. The ball-retrieval code won't arrive until tomorrow!)

I put in about 20 hours total on the game, including asset creation.

I wish I'd known about Google's Box2D 2.3.1 Javascript port earlier. I used the Emscripten port of Box2D 2.2.1, which presumably starts from a buggier source and is definitely harder to use because of the C++/JS issues in the cross-compiler. I'm not sure whether I'm leaking memory like crazy when I allocate b2Vec2s, for example. I lost a lot of time trying to figure out the API between the original C++ manual, C++ documentation, Emscripten manual, and Javascript examples.

This was my first victory in the Machinis Ludo game jam series. I've always been over-ambitious and overscheduled for these short jams. I think that I now have the right scope and the right tools.

I look forward to polishing the game tomorrow. I'm undecided on whether I should fill out the missing audio and graphics effects or try to take on the procedural solar system generator. I welcome feedback and bug reports in e-mail or the comments on this post.