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Feed-Fish Game

This is another Unity game I developed recently, may be a bit silly one but I enjoyed creating it and learned a few new things.

In this game you navigate the fish to ‘eat’ numbers. Higher the number the fish eats, bigger your score. Numbers appear and disappear randomly and you need to make fish eat them before they disappear. Use the navigation control at lower left to move the fist. Here is the demo of the game –

Click here to play the game. It won’t run in mobile browsers. If you want to run the game on any Android device then you can download and install this APK file by sideloading. I don’t plan to publish it on Playstore.

-Ram Kulkarni

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Single Wicket Cricket – A 3D Game

I tried my hand at a low-poly 3D game development with ‘Single Wicket Cricket’ game. This is not a typical Cricket where two teams play against each other. In this game you are the main player – the batsman, playing against a team.

Video demo of Single Wicket Cricket game

Tap/click Bowl to start bowling action. You will be able to ‘Hit’ the ball once it is released by the bowler. You will be able take a ‘Run’ only if bat touches the bat, so there are no byes or leg-byes.

By moving different sliders you can control position, rotation of the batsman, strength and direction (up/down) of the stroke. Tap/click ‘Help’ button for more details.

The game is available to run in Web Browser or as a standalone application on Android devices.

Click here to play the browser based version of this game. Or type http://ramkulkarni.com/Games/Cricket in the address bar. Make sure to run the game in Landscape mode for the best experience.

Click here to go to Google Play listing of this app. Or search ‘Single Wicket Cricket’ in the Google Play app.

-Ram Kulkarni

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Sprite Animation in HTML5 Canvas with KineticJS

If you want to simulate motion with repeated display of a set of images, where each image correspond to one position in a series of positions in motion, then you can do this easily with sprite. Sprite is individual image in this series of images that constitute motion. The example of sprite is a person walking, where his/her motions of hands and legs are repeated during the walk. However sprite animation is not limited to repeated motion only. You can simulate, for example, explosion of an object, with series of images (sprites), each showing different stages of the explosion.

In my simple HTML5 game, the planet stops moving (and the game ends) when it hits any asteroid or boundaries of the Canvas. I modified it so that the planet explodes when it hits any obstacle. And for this I used Sprites. KineticJS makes animating Sprites very easy. This is how my sprite sheet looks like (sprite sheet is one image that contains small individual sprite images) –

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Collision Detection in HTML5 2D Games


I wanted to make the Simple HTML5 Game I had created a couple of weeks back a little more interesting. I decided that I would add some obstacles in the way of the moving object. The goal then would be to prevent the moving object from hitting the obstacles and boundaries of the Canvas. This required implementation of collision detection (between moving object and obstacles) logic. If shape of the image is rectangular, then it is easy to detect collision; this is something I had already implemented in the last game, where I checked if the moving object hits any of the four boundaries. But if shape of the image is irregular, then it requires a bit more work to detect collision. But first, try out the modified game below and see how collision detection works –
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A Simple HTML5 Game



My son is having summer vacation and he wanted to learn animation and create games. He had learnt Flash and ActionScript a couple of years back. So he started developing a game in Flash. However he ran into few issues and sought my help. Since I don’t know Flash, I could not help him much. But I suggested that if he develops his game in HTML5, I could help him. So while teaching him HTML5 and animation, I ended up creating a very simple game, which I want to share here.
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