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<\/a><\/p>\nI started with the basic seeker code, and messed with it probably around 40 times until I got to where I am now. It was originally a bunch of vehicles that were attracted to or repulsed by the mouse coordinates, depending on if the mouse was pressed or not. I played with color and the speed and movement of the vehicles, but it didn’t seem to be enough.<\/p>\n
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I got rid of all of the vehicles, except for one, and I changed the collision from the mouse coordinates to the coordinates of the one vehicle (triangle). Then, I added a floating rectangle, and played with various movement options, and outcomes from collision. My initial idea was to have a few rectangles floating around, and once the vehicle collided with one of them, it would follow behind, and this would apply to each rectangle, one behind the other.<\/p>\n
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Then, I thought about making the rectangles surround the vehicle on each side, and I had serious trouble doing this. Probably about 2 hours of trouble. It finally clicked in my head, and I assigned a boolean to each rectangle collision check, so the outputs i was making would last past the duration of the collision. I finally did some tweaking and made the rectangles shoot away from the vehicle after all of them are collected and the mouse is released. A short time before this, I implemented some basic wrapping, and then fixed it after I made movement changes in the vehicle and rectangles.<\/p>\n
Parts of coding this game really stumped me, but through double-checking, testing, and tweaking, I was able to rid it of bugs, and be proud of the game in its final stage.<\/p>\n