Inspiration
Sea of Thieves was our main inspriation, along with the steampunk-like theme of this year's Durhack.
What it does
Ships! is a 2D, top-down adventure game, where you can fly airships, fight enemies and explore, all with your friends.
How we built it
Ships! was built with Java, libGDX, Box2D and KryoNetty in IntelliJ IDEA.
Challenges we ran into
Originally, we based our code around a networking library that is no longer maintained and has a significant bug that derailed our project. We had to strip out most of the networking code and rewrite it using a different library.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The friends we made along the way.
What we learned
This was my (Tom) first time writing Java and taking on game networking was even more difficult than I was expecting.
What's next for Ships!
Given the standard of code we have produced in the 24 hours given, we are likely going to use this as a proof-of-concept and completely rewrite it in a more extensible manner. Once that is done, we aim to add more adventure and a story line.
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