Worm game

Educational project. I learned a lot about what to avoid when making a game. It’s more of a simulation you can interact with rather than an actual game.

• It’s scalable, thousands of worms can be simulated on-screen (depending on hardware, settings and desired framerate).
• Pooler.cs has generics, Blocks.cs BlockSpawner has recursion and there’s also tests.
• See CHANGELOG.md for a more in-depth look on the development process.
• Over 2 500 lines of code (documentation included).

  Benchmarks

  | 200x100 grid, worm length 6 | 3333 worms | Filled with blocks |
  |———————————————|———————|——————————|
  | i7-4790k and GTX 1080, 144Hz | 37,6 AVG FPS | 90,9 AVG FPS |
  | Ryzen 5 3550U, 60Hz | 12,4 AVG FPS | 52,6 AVG FPS |

  Video

  

Game mechanics

• Field
  • Fruits and worms spawn on it
• Players
  • Can posess worms
  • Up to five (4x gamepad + keyboard)
    • Gamepad: left stick to move, right bumper to posess and join
    • Keyboard: WASD to move, space to posess and join
• Worms
  • Go straight until they hit something
  • Controlled like snake in the snake game
  • Grow longer by eating fruits
  • Turn into blocks when stuck
• Blocks
  • Can’t move
  • Disappear if next to another block of the same color.

Setup

• Open the .sln file, should work out of the box.

Tools

• C# + Otter
• Visual Studio Community 2019
• ComTest (not required to run tests)