Watch Out Below

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Watch Out Below!

• Jackson Musker
• Megan Carroll
• Allen Porter

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Game Overview

• Have you ever felt an unwelcome drop of bird
  poop in your hair? Or that nasty stain on you
  new shirt? Our games mission is how to solve
  these problems. Heres the idea The bird poop
  falls from the birds flying across the top of the
  screen. A cannon is located in the bottom middle
  of the screen, and it shoots fireballs to destroy
  the bird poop. The cannon rotates in a
  semi-circular fashion. On either side of the
  cannon are various celebrity heads. Your job is
  to protect these stars from the hailstorm of bird
  droppings. Shoot all the poop or the birds
  before your heads have been soiled, and you win
  the level! You will then advance to a more
  difficult level. If, however, the poop hits all
  of the celebrity heads, then you lose all of your
  points and the game is over.

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Game Design

• Sprites include the pieces of bird poop the
  birds the cannon the fire balls launched by
  user images of celebrities heads, (tentatively
  fancy cars and food for subsequent levels).
• Trackers attached to 1) the bird poop falling
  vertically from the birds at the top of the
  screen, 2) the birds flying horizontally across
  the top, 3) the fire balls moving in a straight
  line that depends upon the angle of the cannons
  turret, and 4) the cannon rotating in a
  semi-circular path.
• Collisions When the fire balls collides with a
  piece of bird poop, the bird poop will disappear
  and the user will hear a torch sound. When the
  bird poop hits a celebrity, his or her head will
  disappear from the screen after a squishy sound
  effect.
• Score user will receive 5 points for each bird
  poop that is burned and 25 points at the end of
  the level for each remaining head score will be
  kept on the side of the screen.

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Game Design - continued

• Levels the user advances to the next level once
  20 bird poops have been successfully hit at each
  level, the bird poop will descend faster and more
  frequently, and the targets will change to larger
  ones which are more difficult to protect. Splash
  screens will also change to distinguish between
  the three levels.
• Splash Screens Played at the introduction of the
  game and at the beginning and end of each level,
  with effects and images specific to the level
  (i.e. a picture of martha Stewart for level 1, a
  ferrari for level 3, etc. )
• Game over When all the heads have been struck by
  a bird poop, a Splat Screen will inform you
  that youve lost the game.

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Basic Game

• We will place the buttons quit, help, and
  start on the east side of our border layout.
  The score will be kept in a JTextField above
  these three buttons, forming a sort of control
  panel on the right side of the screen and leaving
  the majority of the window for the game itself.
• As far as the layout within the game
  window, the three celebrity heads will be on
  either side of the cannon at the bottom. The
  cannon will be a rectangle with a line extending
  from the top that will serve as a launching
  turret for the fireballs. The fireballs will be
  circular images of flames, and the bird poop will
  be irregularly-shaped imageSprites. By clicking
  the mouse, the user controls the destination of
  the fireball, and the turret will adjust its
  angle to this target based on polar coordinates.

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Possible Enhancements

• If we have time, we would love to add different
  levels. By increasing the speed and frequency of
  bird droppings, we could make successive levels
  more challenging. In this case, we would replace
  the celebs with luxury cars, clean clothes, food,
  or something else you would never want a bird to
  fly over.
• If the user clicks the mouse a second time, the
  fireball will expand in a farther-reaching
  explosion (The spite will enlarge in an expanding
  circle). If this explosion intersects with
  multiple pieces of bird poop, it will destroy all
  of them.
• A Nuke the Poop button that destroys all of the
  bird poop on the screen when you are too
  overwhelmed with it. You can use this feature
  only once per level.
• A high score list could keep track of the highest
  scores achieved in another JTextField on the east
  side of the border layout.

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Timeline

• The design of the video game classes, methods and
  state will be completed by April 5
  
• One week later on April 13, the basic game will
  be implemented.
  
• Testing and debugging will be finished by April
  16.
  
• The game will be documented by April 20.
• The remaining time will be spent enhancing the
  game.
  
• Release is pending upon successful completion.