Pond V 2.2.7 - ALPHA

Description

Pond is a tranquil home for you to take your mind off what you were doing and to calm you down.

Hosted Here: relaxing-pond.herokuapp.com

Current features include:

• ⚫ Tadpoles ⚫
  • Small little tadpoles that dance around your screen in groups
• 🐟 Fish 🐟
  • Slightly larger orange Koi fish dart around the screen or gracefully swim around.
• 🌼 Lily Pads 🌼
  • Large pads which float on the top of the water without a care in the world,
• 🌊 Water Effects 🌊
  • Move your mouse across the water and leave little waves.
• ⏺ Shape ⏺
  • The pond has banks to show that the pond isn't endless. It is contained. contained by you!
  • From here we have a random assortment of grass and cattails and more!
• 🎶 Music 🎶
  • No relaxation is perfect without some optional Lo-Fi tunes in the background

Planned features:

• 🌙 Day Night Cycle 🌙
  • Canvas background colours change over time to show the passing of time is not a bad thing
• ☔ Weather ☔
  • Rain drops to show that rain isn't just for ruining your day but for clearing your mind after a stressful day
• 🍖 Food 🍖
  • The ability to drop bits of bread and feed the little fish
  • Big fishes eat smaller fishes and population management will occur
• 🔞 Age 🔞
  • You can see the full life cycle of birth to death of a tadpole to a frog and other creatures
  • Fish will 'mate' with other fish to make smaller fish and the circle of life continues
• ⚙ Optimisation ⚙
  • I want your pond to be tailored the way YOU want it therefore I want the program to run faster in general so you can fit as much as you want in it
• 🎣 FEAR!!!! 🎣
  • A big pointer is scary for the little fishes, so I want this to be represented properly

Requirements

• NodeJs

How to run developer build

• Clone or download the repository
• Extract it to a folder
• Open Terminal and navigate to this folder
• Type npm install (This may take a couple of minutes...)
• Type npm start
  • The website should open automatically here

Changelog

2.2.7

Redesigned Tadpole movement to use Boids Algorithm

2.2.6

Added another colour scheme "Autumn"

2.2.5

Edited menu to implement tabs plus added a new tab

2.2.4

Added lots of stuff to the menu to make it YOUR pond

2.2.3

Added lots of CSS to the menu to make it look better

2.2.2

Flower Bushes are now randomly placed around

2.2.1

Now uploaded to Heroku

2.1.11

Trees have been created (Sakura Trees)

2.1.10

Started Trees code

2.1.9

Made all entities scalable

2.1.8

Added more fish colours and more shadows!

2.1.7

Colour scheme changed shadows added and fish now have a new shape

2.1.6

Everything will now render randomly across the bank

2.1.5

Cattails and long grass render code has been written

2.1.4

Rocks will now generate around the edge of the pond

2.1.3

Rocks have been started - A random polygon will be created

2.1.2

Fish now will swim away from the edge

2.1.1

Pond edge added - No collisions

2.0.4

Changed water effect to be more cartoon like and general movement fixes

2.0.3

Fish now cause ripples

2.0.2

Made Water effect happen when mouse moves over canvas

2.0.1

Water Effect added

1.5.1

Helpful sliders have been added to customise pond to your own taste

1.4.3

Lily Pads have a 25% chance to have a water lily on it

1.4.2

Lily Pads have simple movement

1.4.1

Lily Pads have been added

1.3.1

Many bugs fixed with fish movement

1.2.2

Fish have 2 states - wiggling and twitching

1.2.1

Fish have been added

1.1.1

Tadpoles now follow the leader

1.0.2

Tadpoles now have a leader

1.0.1

Tadpoles now move

1.0.0

Tadpoles added

Credits

https://github.com/christopher4lis/canvas-boilerplate - Used as boilerplate code for Web Pack http://agilerepose.weebly.com/water-ripple.html - Used to create the water effect in water.js - Not used any more but still a great resource https://p5js.org/examples/simulate-flocking.html - Boids Code used for Tadpoles since 2.2.7