BouncifyRN

Ballz has enjoyed a lot of use and family competition in our home. This project is meant to help learn React Native by writting a Ballz-inspired game with some tweaks and see what happens. This app should never be published to the app store as it's just for learning purposes. React Native isn't the best gaming plaform, it's probably going to be terrible. This will be a fun test of the performance improvements coming in Fabric.

Holy batman, the memory leaks are insane and it's time for performance work. With a bit of help from Siavash, animations and rebound aiming have been added and the game is almost there and ready for more hours of wasted time.

Original game is on the left and React Native version (source in this repo) on the right.

BouncifyRN

BouncifyRNv

Quick Start iOS

git clone https://github.com/jmwind/bouncifyrn.git

cd bouncifyrn

npm install

react-native link

react-native run-ios

TODOs

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  • [x] title placement has overlaps, ensure at least one and powerups
  • [x] clean up exploded boxes more aggresively
  • [x] ball can stop outside the side bounds of screen
  • [x] replace all the crappy array indeces with x,y
  • [ ] bug where ball can fit between spaces between boxes. Collision detection needs more resolution.
  • [ ] listener and animated logic is gross. as state, global, vs pattern for animated lifecycles

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  • [x] Get balls moving around the screen with grade 2 level math
  • [x] Define and draw playing surface and limit movement within
  • [x] Start ball from bottom on click with tail
  • [x] Start angle touch motion calculation and display
  • [x] Colision detection on box, bounce off
  • [x] Colision angular velocity near object edges (irregular bounces)
  • [x] Have balls stop and hide when they hit bottom surface
  • [x] Add ball addition hot spots on screen with nice animation
  • [x] Colision count and box disappear
  • [x] Top score section with ball count and level and layout
  • [x] Show ball count beside first ball (on top for now)
  • [x] Calculate level and display at top
  • [x] Box bounce count calculation and display
  • [x] Add box layers and advancing
  • [x] Determine end of game when boxes advance to bottom row and add screen and show end screen
  • [x] Splash screen and icon
  • [x] Start scren
  • [x] End of game screen
  • [x] Add cheat mode to add / remove balls for testing
  • [x] Ball power up hit explosion animation that drops down to floor
  • [x] Smooth out aiming movement
  • [x] Save high score locally and show in the end screen
  • [x] Nice box tile explosion animation
  • [ ] Organize constants as per best practices for React
  • [ ] Fix all the crappy hard coded sizes and make it work on iPad (flexible layouts)
  • [ ] Get with the times, go Typescript!
  • [ ] Add speed-up button
  • [ ] First ball landing spot calculation instead of having the same ball decide on next launch location
  • [x] Animation of powerups to the landing transition
  • [ ] Add tests and CI (buildkite and mac stadium?)
  • [ ] Automate production builds
  • [x] Wall rebounding aiming (eg, bounce the aim line off the wall to help with gnarly angles)
  • [ ] Get working on Android

GitHub