Making a simple car game

I see. I see you're here. And I also know the reason why you're here. Most probably because you wanna develop a cool simple game using Sketchware, or you're just messing around.

Shall we work on the next blockbuster game now? Sure, let's go.

Setup

1. Create a new project in Sketchware.

2. In VIEW area of main.xml add a TextView named textview3 for displaying score of previous game, a TextView textview4 for displaying high score, and a Button button1 for starting game.

3. In MainActivity, add a Shared Preferences component sp:sp.

4. Add onStart event and put blocks to set the text of textview3 and textview4.

7. On page2.xml add a LinearV linear1 with padding 0 and width and height MATCH_PARENT.

8. In Page2Activity, add a Shared Preferences component again sp:sp.

9. Create a number variable highscore.

10. In onCreate event of Page2Activity, use blocks to set the value of number variable highscore, and use codes to create a new GameView and add it to linear1, as shown in image below.

The code used in the add source directly block is:

GameView bcv = new GameView(this);
linear1.addView(bcv);

11. Create a more block. Name it extra.

Now the setup is done, time to start the main process.

Programming

12. In the more block extra, use an add source directly block and put codes to create a new View class GameView.

}

public class GameView extends View{
private Paint myPaint;
private int speed=1;
private int time = 0;
private int score = 0;
private int myCarPosition = 0;
private ArrayList<HashMap<String, Object>> otherCars = new ArrayList<>();

int viewWidth = 0;
int viewHeight = 0;

public GameView(Context context){
super(context);
myPaint = new Paint();
}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
viewWidth = this.getMeasuredWidth();
viewHeight = this.getMeasuredHeight();

if (time%700 < 6 + 2*speed){
HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("lane", getRandom(0,2));
map.put("startTime", time);
otherCars.add(map);
}

time = time + 6 + 2*speed;

int carWidth = viewWidth/5;
int carHeight = carWidth+10;

myPaint.setStyle(android.graphics.Paint.Style.FILL);

myPaint.setColor(Color.RED);
canvas.drawRect((myCarPosition*viewWidth/3) + viewWidth/15, viewHeight - 2 -carHeight, (myCarPosition*viewWidth/3) + (viewWidth/15) + carWidth, viewHeight-2, myPaint);

myPaint.setColor(Color.GREEN);

for (int i = 0; i<otherCars.size(); i++){
int carX = ((int)otherCars.get(i).get("lane")*viewWidth/3) + viewWidth/15;
int carY = time - (int)otherCars.get(i).get("startTime");

canvas.drawRect(carX, carY-carHeight, carX + carWidth, carY, myPaint);

if ((int)otherCars.get(i).get("lane") == myCarPosition){
if (carY > viewHeight - 2 - carHeight && carY < viewHeight - 2){
sp.edit().putString("hs", String.valueOf(highscore)).commit();
sp.edit().putString("score", String.valueOf(score)).commit();
finish();
}}

if (carY > viewHeight + carHeight){
otherCars.remove(i);
score++;
speed = 1 + Math.abs(score/10);
if (score > highscore){
highscore = score;
}
}
}

myPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
myPaint.setTextSize(40);
canvas.drawText("Score: " + String.valueOf(score), 80f, 80f, myPaint);
canvas.drawText("Speed: " + String.valueOf(speed), 380f, 80f, myPaint);

invalidate();
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
switch(event.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
float x1 = event.getX();
if ( x1<viewWidth/2){
if (myCarPosition>0){
myCarPosition--;
}
}
if ( x1>viewWidth/2){
if (myCarPosition<2){
myCarPosition++;
}
}
invalidate();
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
break;
}
return true;

}

You're done. Enjoy. Compile and play!

Making cars look better

• Add images of cars using image manager. Example car_blue, and car_yellow.
• Replace the code in More Block with following code:

}

public class GameView extends View{
private Paint myPaint;
private int speed=1;
private int time = 0;
private int score = 0;
private int myCarPosition = 0;
private ArrayList<HashMap<String, Object>> otherCars = new ArrayList<>();

int viewWidth = 0;
int viewHeight = 0;

public GameView(Context context){
super(context);
myPaint = new Paint();
}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
viewWidth = this.getMeasuredWidth();
viewHeight = this.getMeasuredHeight();

if (time%700 < 10 + speed){
HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("lane", getRandom(0,2));
map.put("startTime", time);
otherCars.add(map);
}

time = time + 10 + speed;

int carWidth = viewWidth/5;
int carHeight = carWidth+10;

myPaint.setStyle(android.graphics.Paint.Style.FILL);

android.graphics.drawable.Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.car_blue, null);
d.setBounds((myCarPosition*viewWidth/3) + viewWidth/15 + 25, viewHeight - 2 -carHeight, (myCarPosition*viewWidth/3) + (viewWidth/15) + carWidth-25, viewHeight-2);
d.draw(canvas);

myPaint.setColor(Color.GREEN);

for (int i = 0; i<otherCars.size(); i++){
int carX = ((int)otherCars.get(i).get("lane")*viewWidth/3) + viewWidth/15;
int carY = time - (int)otherCars.get(i).get("startTime");

android.graphics.drawable.Drawable d2 = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.car_yellow, null);
d2.setBounds(carX+25, carY-carHeight, carX + carWidth-25, carY);
d2.draw(canvas);

if ((int)otherCars.get(i).get("lane") == myCarPosition){
if (carY > viewHeight - 2 - carHeight && carY < viewHeight - 2){
sp.edit().putString("hs", String.valueOf((int)highscore)).commit();
sp.edit().putString("score", String.valueOf(score)).commit();
finish();
}}

if (carY > viewHeight + carHeight){
otherCars.remove(i);
score++;
speed = 1 + Math.abs(score/8);
if (score > highscore){
highscore = score;
}
}
}

myPaint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
myPaint.setTextSize(40);
canvas.drawText("Score: " + String.valueOf(score), 80f, 80f, myPaint);
canvas.drawText("Speed: " + String.valueOf(speed), 380f, 80f, myPaint);

invalidate();
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
switch(event.getAction()) {
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
float x1 = event.getX();
if ( x1<viewWidth/2){
if (myCarPosition>0){
myCarPosition--;
}
}
if ( x1>viewWidth/2){
if (myCarPosition<2){
myCarPosition++;
}
}
invalidate();
break;
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
break;
}
return true;


}

You now have neat cars, and your block-buster game is ready to play. Compare your score with your friend's and Enjoy the best you can!