rubik-s-evo-portaland

About the project

This project is an experiment to use AIGC technologies to automate some parts in game creation. After trying with different open source game engines, I ended up going with retro & pixel games because theoretically any assets or element in the game can be represented by text, and therefore the state-of-the-art AI technologies can better handle them.

The game uses pyxel engine, which is an open source retro game engine for python. It worked pretty well. Meanwhile, surprisingly, it used rust to build the core lib.

Regarding the game - the majority of the system & code are generated and tuned (85%+). Some are borrowed from existing open sourced pyxel games.

Regarding assets - some assets are borrowed, some are generated.

Folder Structure

├─docs
│  ├─project_definition: GDD & Concept Doc (Chat with Intelligent Assistant [Another Ongoing Project] & Created)
│  └─workers: Some typical examples of how I generated assets / code / etc.
│      └─Personas: Worker persona settings
├─python
│  ├─assets: resources
│  ├─build
│  │  └─python
│  ├─levels: simple level files
│  │  └─__pycache__
│  ├─misc
│  ├─modules: modules
│  │  └─__pycache__
│  ├─pseudo_code: The AI coder first generated pseudo code, and then generates actual code 
│  ├─tests: The AI code has to bypass tests (for the first few modules... I didn't have time to ask them to do all)
│  │  └─__pycache__
│  └─__pycache__
├─tools: asset conversion tools
├─wasm: wasm host

How to play

https://wdandanw.github.io/rubik-s-evo-portaland/wasm/game.html -> Play online
https://wdandanw.github.io/rubik-s-evo-portaland/wasm/editor.html -> Edit assets online

Or:

Clone the repo
install pyxel, as instructed by https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
Install any other missing dependencies (not sure how many... but shouldn't be a lot)
go to folder "python" and pyxel run main.py or python main.py

Current Game

The majority are the systems, and lots of the systems are unused.
3 levels. 1 ray casting level indicating dropping from 3d to 2d, 1 pickup demo level (also indicating first evolve), and 1 unfishied easter egg lobby level.

The findings / takeaways from the project