Hey People!
So, I've been quite busy recently adding features to my game entry.
Added GUI
I added a overlay display which shows the players health and jetpack fuel. This was done by creating a new camera for the screen and simply passing in the player object to print out the data on the screen in the GUIs render method.
Doors
Doors have been added which allow the player to pass from one Tile map to the next. This was done by creating an object layer in Tiled and creating an object at the specified point. This object contained a string value (to indicate the filename of the next map) and an X and Y value (to indicate the players entry point on the new map).This data was then stored in a java object with a body. When the player comes in contact with this body, the object data is used to load the new map and place the player in the given location.
Pick Ups
With the addition of jetpack fuel, I decided to create a basic pickup to give the player more fuel. This was achieved much the same way as the door object, using a tiled object layer and listeneing for player contact. In this case, on contact with the player the pickup is removed from the map and the players fuel is increased by 25.
Controller Support
The game now has full support for XBox 360 controllers. This wasn't too difficult since LibGDX offers libraries which help with this. I set up a listener in the MainGame class which will decide whether the player is using Keyboard or Controller.
The source is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/RobertFOConnor/SpaceDoctor
Here's a video of what the game looks like so far:
That's all for now. My next step is to get some enemies walking around these maps. Why have a gun if there's nothing to shoot right?
Best of luck!
Yellowbyte :)