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I developed a maze game based on the Cocos Creator beginner project Star Catcher.
The maze generation is inspired by the ideas from liuyubobobo/Play-with-Algorithm-Visualization and Imymirror/maze-generalization. It uses the BFS (Breadth-First Search) algorithm to non-recursively generate a random maze map.
- Operating system: MacOS
- Game engine: Cocos Creator 2.4.7
- Programming language: TypeScript
Maze size: 19 x 19
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If the character reaches the finish point before the countdown ends, the maze will be regenerated, and the level will be reset after updating the completion count.
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When the countdown ends and the character has not triggered the finish point's collision callback, the game will result in a Game Over.
You can use cc.Tween to ensure the character moves a fixed step size each time. Since the character and the path have equal widths, calculating the x and y values of the node based on time in update() might cause the character to not correctly enter the path (even a 1px difference could block the character by the wall), increasing the game difficulty.
Using a Queue to generate the maze should produce the same maze every time. You can refer to Imymirror's implementation to introduce randomness when popping the queue, avoiding the repetition of generated mazes.
If you want to keep track of the number of completions, you can't simply reload the scene to start a new game. Therefore, the entire maze must be manually rebuilt. You can use NodePool to reduce the need to repeatedly instantiate & destroy bricks.
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