Create React App, Pixi floor plan, Material-UI
Create React App & Github Actions v0.1
It’s come around to that time where I feel I need to invest countless hours in writing a game again. I’m going to micro blog it as I go. It starts with create-react-app and a github workflow that will build it and push updates to S3. Here it is, it’s not much, but it had to start somewhere.
Pixi floor plan v0.2
If you didn’t guess by the url already, the game (for now) is called garage. In this game, you’ll have a garage/shed, and you’re going to make stuff in it. For a while, you’re going to need your imagination. I’ve added pixi.js to the project and rendered our first garage. You can render a new one by refreshing the page. And look what happens to the cursor when you move it over the garage…
Refactoring & Material-UI v0.3
A number of changes over the last couple of days increased the complexity of the project a bit. For one I hugely refactored an old shared library and converted it to a private npm package - this had no noticeable effect on the game but will either save me time in the future for this game or others. To hasten UI development I ninja’d Material-UI into the mix with a Speed Dial and animated Dialog offering the first real bit of user-interaction. I have fond memories of Street Rod and searching the local paper in that game for parts. Likewise, in garage, the player will be able to buy and sell in a similar fashion. Parts to purchase will refresh periodically and currently do so every 10 seconds for demonstration purposes. Even at this early stage, state became difficult to manage, so integrated redux, tho I’m not sure how suited it is to games.