HELP RUSSELL GAIN WEIGHT

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HELP RUSSELL GAIN WEIGHT

• A game/ charity by Russell Hainline

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BUT HOW CAN IT BE DONE?

• Know that game Snake? Its kind of like that,
  except
• Theres no snake, its my head instead, and the
  little squares are pictures of burgers, to help
  me gain weight.
• Why play the game? Look at me, Im skinny. Feed
  me please. If you make me big, you win the game!

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What will he need to get fed?

• Two types of ImageSprites (my face and my food)
  and trackers attached to see when they collide,
  so that people can make me eat, score, and make
  the food disappear.
• A basic scoreboard which starts at zero and goes
  up one each time a burger is eaten.

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What will he need? Part Deux

• Scoreboard where I notify the Observers whenever
  the number of burgers eaten has changed.
• A GUI where the title Help Russell Gain Weight
  is at the top, a scoreboard is on the side, and a
  start, pause and quit button on the bottom, with
  the game smack dab in the middle.

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What images will I use?

• This right here may or may not be my head in the
  game, but the mouth agape is funny. I would fill
  the sides with the invisible things that Jam used
  to make his head seem perfect and not square.

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But how will it move?

• Ill connect the keyboard to the movements of the
  head, and if it hits a burger, the burger
  disappears and a point is added, but if the head
  hits the wall, the game is over, and a splash
  screen comes up saying you lose.

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What images? Part Deux

• Delish! Heres the burger for my Image Sprite.
  Each time my head collides with the burger, it
  will disappear, one point will be added to the
  scoreboard, and a new burger will appear in a
  random place on the gameboard. Then the cycle of
  eating continues.

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Levels?

• Levels arent a priority but a possible
  enhancement. If I have time, Ill do five levels
  of 10 burgers, with each new level making my head
  go faster. It would make the game more
  challenging and suspenseful, but its merely a
  desire, not a necessity, at the beginning.

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Catch- The whole snake thing

• The head wont actually stretch out, and a bunch
  of heads dragging behind each other are silly, so
  Im filing the snake effect under possible
  enhancements if I have time. Id like to, but
  Ill do levels and obstacles first (obstacles
  described later) to make the game more
  challenging.

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Splash Screens?

• I have two pics on my digital camera (not loaded
  to my computer yet), one of me as I am (in a
  tight t-shirt to make me look extra thin), and
  one stuffed with pillows (to look huge and
  buff). The very beginning will say Feed me! and
  show Thin Russell. Then, if 50 burgers are eaten
  successfully, Big Russell comes up and says
  Thanks for the help! Ladies, watch out! These
  will be the beginning and end of my game. Also,
  there will be a third screen with a picture of
  big kids on my hall beating me up with the
  words, You didnt help me eat! And now Im
  dead. that will come up if and when the person
  loses.

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Possible Enhancements? No way!

• Way. There are a few things Id like to do if
  time allows.
• 1. Make the scoreboard start at 150 lbs. and go
  up in weight until it hits 200 lbs. of pure
  muscle. This is a small and unimportant detail
  which could be cool.
• 2. Maybe add a variety of foods, such as steaks
  and fish, and randomly send them out into the
  game to be eaten. Perhaps they could even account
  for different point values.

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Possible Enhancements Part Deux

• 3. Id like to find a crunching sound for when my
  head eats a burger (although burgers shouldnt
  crunchmaybe a gulping noise or burping noise
  insteadIll take votes in class) to make it more
  fun.
• 4. Maybe I could put obstacles such as pictures
  of TV and bed that if you run into them, a new
  splash screen comes up corresponding with the
  obstacle ran into, saying you lost with some
  other hilarious picture (this enhancement is my
  favorite and would make the game more
  challenging...I really hope to get this in).

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Want to join my group?

• Of course you do! My goal is to make a fun game
  that is engaging to play, that is
  self-deprecatory about my lack of muscle mass,
  and that is fun to make (pictures for splash
  screens are always fun to set up). So holler at
  me after class or e-mail me reh9_at_duke.edu if you
  want to be in the group!