Space Jaguar Action RPG 0.0.4

First Space Jaguar Action RPG prototype for Webassembly:

https://demensdeum.com/demos/SpaceJaguarActionRPG004/

https://demensdeum.com/demos/SpaceJaguarActionRPG004_NOTIMEOUT/

Prepare for long loading (53mb) without any indication.

Space Jaguar Action RPG – space pirate simulator. Features available right now:

  • fly around
  • die
  • eat
  • sleep
  • recruit people
  • look at unstoppable flow of time

Can’t walk in 3D scenes right now, due to bad optimization for web version. It will available in next versions.

Game engine source code, scripts are available under MIT license. All comments and feedback are welcome:

https://gitlab.com/demensdeum/space-jaguar-action-rpg

Linux version screenshots:

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How I didn’t hit the guy on the pole or the story of amazing ingenuity

In this post I will write about the importance of architectural decisions in development, application support, in a team development environment.

Self-Operating Napkin – Rube Goldberg

During my youth, I worked on an app for ordering a taxi. In the program, you could choose a pickup point, a drop point, calculate the cost of the trip, the type of tariff, and, in fact, order a taxi. I got the application at the last stage of the pre-launch, after adding several fixes, the application was released in the AppStore. Already at that stage, the whole team understood that it was implemented very poorly, design patterns were not used, all components of the system were tightly connected, in general, it could be written into one large continuous class (God object), nothing would have changed, so how classes mixed their boundaries of responsibility and, in their mass, overlapped each other in a dead cohesion. Later, the management decided to write the application from scratch, using the correct architecture, which was done and the final product was implemented by several dozen B2B clients.

However, I will describe a curious incident from past architecture, from which I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, or suddenly remember in the middle of the day and start laughing hysterically. The thing is that I could not hit the guy on the pole the first time, and this brought down most of the application, but first things first.

It was an ordinary working day, one of the customers received a task to slightly modify the application design – it is banal to move a few pixels up the icon in the center of the screen on the pickup address selection screen. Well, having professionally evaluated the task in 10 minutes, I raised the icon 20 pixels up, suspecting nothing at all, I decided to check the taxi order.

What? Does the app no ​​longer show the order button? How did it happen?

I could not believe my eyes, after raising the icon by 20 pixels, the application stopped showing the continue ordering button. Rolling back the change, I saw the button again. Something was wrong here. After spending 20 minutes in the debugger, I got a little tired of unwinding spaghetti from calls to overlapping classes, but I found that * moving the picture really changes the logic of the application *

It was all about the icon in the center – the man on the pole, when he moved the map, he jumped to animate the camera movement, this animation was followed by the disappearance of the button below. Apparently the program thought that the man shifted by 20 pixels was in a jump, so, according to internal logic, it hid the confirmation button.

How can this happen? Does * the state * of the screen depend not on the pattern of the state machine, but on the * representation * of the guy’s position on the pole?

Everything turned out to be so, every time the map was drawn, the application * visually pick * in the middle of the screen and checked what was there, if there was a man on a pole, then this means that the animation of the map shift was over and the button had to be shown. In the case when the man is not there, it means that the map is shifting, and the button must be hidden.

In the example above, everything is fine, firstly, this is an example of the Goldberg Machine (abstruse machines), secondly, an example of the developer’s unwillingness to somehow interact with other developers in the team (try to figure it out without me), thirdly, you can list all the problems by SOLID, patterns (code smell), MVC violation, and more.

Try not to do this, develop in all possible directions, help your colleagues in their work. Happy new year everyone)

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID

https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/smells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller

https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/state

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Guess Band

In this post I will describe how to work with the fasttext text classifier.

Fasttext is a machine learning library for text classification. Let’s try to teach her to identify a metal band by the name of the song. For this, we use supervised learning using a dataset.

Let’s create a dataset of songs with group names:

__label__metallica the house jack built
__label__metallica fuel
__label__metallica escape
__label__black_sabbath gypsy
__label__black_sabbath snowblind
__label__black_sabbath am i going insane
__label__anthrax anthrax
__label__anthrax i'm alive
__label__anthrax antisocial
[etc.]

Training sample format:

{__label__class} {example from class}

Let’s train fasttext and save the model:

model = fasttext.train_supervised ("train.txt")
model.save_model ("model.bin")

Let’s load the trained model and ask to identify the group by the song name:

model = fasttext.load_model ("model.bin")
predictResult = model.predict ("Bleed")
print (predictResult)

As a result, we will get a list of classes that this example looks like, indicating the level of similarity by a number, in our case, the similarity of the Bleed song name to one of the dataset groups.
In order for the fasttext model to be able to work with a dataset that goes beyond the boundaries of the training sample, the autotune mode is used using a validation file (test file). During autotune, fasttext selects the optimal model hyperparameters, validating the result on a sample from the test file. The autotune time is limited by the user independently by passing the autotuneDuration argument.
An example of creating a model using a test file:

model = fasttext.train_supervised ("train.txt", autotuneValidationFile = "test.txt", autotuneDuration = 10000)

Sources

https://fasttext.cc
https://gosha20777.github.io / tutorial / 2018/04/12 / fasttext-for-windows

Source code

https://gitlab.com/demensdeum/ MachineLearning / – / tree / master / 6bandClassifier

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x86_64 Assembler + C = One Love

In this article I will describe the process of calling C functions from assembler.
Let’s try to call printf ( “Hello World \ n!”); and exit (0);

section .rodata
    message: db "Hello, world!", 10, 0

section .text
    extern printf
    extern exit
    global main

main:
    xor	rax, rax
    mov	rdi, message    
    call printf
    xor rdi, rdi
    call exit

Everything is much simpler than it seems, in the section .rodata we describe the static data, in this case the string “Hello, world!”, 10 it is a newline character, and will not forget it annihilate the.

The section of code declare outside of the printf function, exit libraries, stdio, stdlib, also declare main entry function:

section .text
    extern printf
    extern exit
    global main

In the case of the return function rax pass 0, can be used mov rax, 0; but to accelerate the use xor rax, rax; Further, in the first argument is a pointer to a string:

rdi, message

Next call external C functions printf:

main:
    xor	rax, rax
    mov	rdi, message    
    call printf
    xor rdi, rdi
    call exit

By analogy, transfer case 0 in the first argument and calling exit:

    xor rdi, rdi
    call exit

As the Elves say:
Who does not listen
He eats plov @Alexander Pelevin

References

https://www.devdungeon.com/content/how-mix-c-and-assembly
https://nekosecurity.com/x86-64-assembly/part-3-nasm-anatomy-syscall-passing-argument
https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2017/fall/cs301/reference/x86_64.html

Source Code

https://gitlab.com/demensdeum/assembly-playground

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Hello World x86_64 Assembly

In this article I will describe the IDE configuration process, writing the first Hello World assembler x86_64 for Ubuntu Linux operating system.
Let’s start with IDE SASM plant assembler nasm:

sudo apt install sasm nasm

Next, invoke SASM and write Hello World:

global main

section .text

main:
    mov rbp, rsp      ; for correct debugging
    mov rax, 1        ; write(
    mov rdi, 1        ;   STDOUT_FILENO,
    mov rsi, msg      ;   "Hello, world!\n",
    mov rdx, msglen   ;   sizeof("Hello, world!\n")
    syscall           ; );

    mov rax, 60       ; exit(
    mov rdi, 0        ;   EXIT_SUCCESS
    syscall           ; );

section .rodata
    msg: db "Hello, world!"
    msglen: equ $-msg

Hello World code is taken from the blog James Fisher, Adapted for assembling and debugging SASM. In SASM documentation states that the entry point must be a function named main, otherwise debug and compile code is incorrect.
What we did in this code? Made the call syscall – an appeal to the Linux operating system kernel with the correct arguments in registers, a pointer to a string in the data section.

Zoom Enhance

Consider the code details:

global main

global – assembler directive allows you to set global symbols with string names. A good analogy – interface header files C / C ++ languages. In this case, we ask the main character for the input function.

section .text

section – assembler directive allows define sections (segments) of code. Section directive or a segment equal. The .text section is placed code.

main:

Announces the beginning of the main function. The assembler function called subroutines (subroutine)

mov rbp, rsp

The first machine instruction mov – puts the value of the argument 1 to argument 2. In this case, we transfer the register value in rbp rsp. Of comments you can understand that this line added SASM to simplify debugging. Apparently that is a personal affair between SASM and debugger gdb.

Next, look at the code to .rodata data segment, two call syscall, first outputs Hello World string exits from the second application with the correct code 0.

Let us imagine that the registers are variables with names rax, rdi, rsi, rdx, r10, r8, r9. By analogy with the high-level language, turn from vertical to horizontal view of the assembly, then the call syscall will look like this:

syscall(rax, rdi, rsi, rdx, r10, r8, r9)

Then the call to print text:

syscall(1, 1, msg, msglen)

Calling the exit with the correct code 0:

syscall(60, 0)

Consider the arguments in more detail in the header asm/unistd_64.h file find function __NR_write – 1, then look in the documentation for the arguments write:
ssize_t write (int fd, const void * buf, size_t count);

The first argument – the file descriptor, the second – the buffer with the data, the third – the counter bytes to write to a file handle. We are looking for the number of file descriptor for standard output, in the manual on stdout find the code 1. Then the case for small, to pass a pointer to the Hello World string buffer from the data section .rodata – msg, byte count – msglen, transfer registers rax, rdi, rsi, rdx correct has argument and call syscall.

Designation constant length lines and is described in manual nasm:

message db 'hello, world'
msglen equ $-message

Simple enough right?

References

https://github.com/Dman95/SASM
https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.15.05/html/nasmdoc0.html
http://acm.mipt.ru/twiki/bin/view/Asm/HelloNasm
https://jameshfisher.com/2018/03/10/linux-assembly-hello-world/
http://www.ece.uah.edu/~milenka/cpe323-10S/labs/lab3.pdf
https://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_176.html
https://www.recurse.com/blog/7-understanding-c-by-learning-assembly
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assembly_programming/assembly_basic_syntax.html
https://nekosecurity.com/x86-64-assembly/part-3-nasm-anatomy-syscall-passing-argument
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_(system_call)

Source Code

https://gitlab.com/demensdeum/assembly-playground

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Abilities in Space Jaguar Action RPG

The first article about the game in the development of Space Jaguar Action RPG. In this article I will describe gempleynuyu feature Jaguar – Specifications.

Many RPG system using static characteristics of the character, such as the characteristics of the DnD (Strength, Physique, Agility, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charm) or Fallout – S.P.E.C.I.A.L (Strength, Perception, Endurance, Cha, Intelligence, Agility, Luck).

The Space Jaguar I plan to implement dynamic characteristics of the system, such as Jag main hero of the game at the start of a total of three characteristics – Possession blade (polusablya), shadow transactions (transactions in the criminal world), picaresque capacity (breaking of locks, theft). During the game, characters will be endowed and deprived of the dynamic characteristics within the gaming unit, all checks will be made on the basis of the level of specific characteristics required for a given game situation. For example Jag not be able to win a game of chess, if no response has a chess game or not has sufficient for screening.

To simplify the logic checks, each characteristic is given by 6 digit code for English letters, name, description. Such as possession of Blade:

var bladeFightingAbility = new Object(); 
bladeFightingAbility.name = "BLADFG"; 
bladeFightingAbility.description = "Blade fighting ability"; 
bladeFightingAbility.points = 3;

Before the start of the gaming unit can view the list of public audits required for passage, also the creator can hide part of checks to create interesting game situations.

Know-hou? It will be interesting? Personally, I find this an interesting system that allows both to ensure the freedom of creativity creators of gaming units, and the ability to transfer characters from a different, but similar in characteristics to the players modules.

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