Guidelines

Due 11.59pm, Sunday, July 5th.

• You are graded on the completeness, neatness, comments, and visual style of your final assignment
• All assignments are individual
• ZIP SKETCH FOLDER (not individual files) INTO ONE FILE
• Submit to WebCT before the deadline

There is no late policy for this course!

If you do not complete the assignment by the deadline, you will receive 0
You "may" be excused pending discussion with your TA

Programming Requirements

• A class to describe a Character
• A class for a Player (subclass of Character)
• A class for a Projectile
• 2 subclasses of Character, 1 "basic enemy" and 1 "boss enemy"
• More info below (click down)

The Character Class

• fields for position, velocity, acceleration, health, width, height
• update method for movement
• move method for movement
• hitCharacter method has a Character parameter and returns a boolean (true if characters touch each other's bounding boxes, use width and height)
• decreaseHealth has an int parameter
• any other general methods for ALL characters should go in this class

The Player Class (extends Character class)

• moves with keyboard keys (a,w,s,d) or arrows
• DOES NOT move based on tiles, character slides around and can move in 2 directions at once
• can fire and keep track of projectile objects (ArrayList)
• has a method with a nested for loop to check all projectiles against all enemies (uses Projectile method hitCharacter in loop to check if a character has been hit)

The Projectile Class

• fields for position and velocity
• constructor with parameter for initial velocity
• update method, no damping Projectiles keep going, removed if offscreen
• draw method
• hitCharacter method has Character parameter and returns a boolean (true if Projectile position is inside character bounding box)

The Basic Enemy (extends Character class)

• does not fire but should be annoying and difficult to kill
• player is damaged if hit by enemy
• can take 2 - 3 hits to kill
• when health == 0, enemy appears dead for 2s, then is removed from list
• override of Character draw method

The Boss Enemy (extends Character class)

• can fire and keep track of projectile objects
• has a method that loops projectiles and calls Projectile class method hitCharacter ONLY for the player object
• can take 10-20 hits to kill
• when health == 0, enemy appears dead for 2s, then is removed from list
• override of Character draw method

Design Requirements

This is your game, but you must have a coherent design that also fulfills the programming requirements.

• Enemies should move in interesting ways, you decide if they should bounce on the walls or repeat, or maybe disappear when offscreen
• The game should be challenging but NOT impossible
• Backgrounds can be images
• Make sure you have a HUD to display player health, enemies killed / score
• Characters (and projectiles) must be drawn using shapes

Ideas

You have complete freedom to design any kind of game you want, here are some suggestions:

• Asteroids
• Space Invaders
• Scrolling Shooter
• Top Down Shooter

Tips and Tricks

• Pay attention in the labs and lectures, check the notes and use the examples
• Style counts! Take time to design your scene and character
• Start now!