GAME

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GAME

• Juan Porras
• Tong Hao

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Game Overview

• Catch the most items in the basket without
  loosing all three lives.
• Uncover the mystery picture located at the right
  side of the screen
• Beat the game by earning 15,000pts.
• Set the record for most images caught.

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Game Design

• Numerous Classes needed to write
• Sprites needed to write
• Trackers wanted
• What happens upon collisions
• How score is kept
• What splash screens well want
• How the game ends

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Competitive Analysis

• Competitors
• Person doesnt win until all picture is
  uncovered.
• Strengths
• It depends on how fast youre able to manipulate
  the mouse.
• Completely random assignment of falling images.

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Sprites needed

• Borders of the screen
• Item that will be responsible for catching the
  falling sprites
• Falling objects

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Trackers

• Mouse Tracker will be responsible for the
  basket moving along with the mouse. This will
  only move from left to right and will be located
  at the bottom of the screen
• Tracker for the falling objectsRotate the
  objects 180 degrees and have them fall straight
  down.
• Gravity will increase as the game progresses.

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Collisions

• Two types of collisions
• With the basket score will be added 200 points
• With the ground life will be take away.

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Score

• Score will be located on the top left corner of
  the Screen
• Should you get to 15,000pts you win the game
• If the score increases by 2,000 points, the game
  increases in difficulty.

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Splash Screens

• Need one set as background for our game that will
  contrast with the images falling from the sky and
  the image of the basket.
• We will make the image that will be uncovered as
  another screen and will act as the score
  increases.

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Basic Game

• Essential Parts of our game
• We will set a mouse tracker so that the
  basket goes the same way the mouse goesHowever,
  it will not move up and down the screen, rather
  the basket will move from left to right in the
  bottom of our game screen. For the basket, we
  want to import an image that will try to catch
  the falling items of its basket or bowl. As more
  and more items keep falling, all through random
  locations from the top of the screen with set
  gravity speeds the game will progress in
  difficulty. Were thinking each caught item will
  be worth 100 points and at every 2,000 points,
  one part of the covered image will be uncovered
  and the game will progress in difficulty. The
  images will keep falling at an increasing rate
  until the score has reached 15,000 points and the
  whole image is uncovered. The falling items will
  be image sprites and were trying to think if we
  should add some bonus images to make the game
  better. These sprites will have a very simple
  tracker that upon collision on the sprite marking
  the bottom of the screen will take a life away
  from the player and upon collision with the top
  of the basket, will add 200 points to the sprite.
  We intend to do this constant adding by
  implementing a loop. The scoreboard will be
  located on the top-left corner of the screen and
  the lives left will be located on the bottom of
  the screen. There need to be about two JButtons
  on the bottom of the screen marking a Start and
  Exit.

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Possible Enhancements

• We will attempt to add some music for
  entertainment but our main goal is to add sound
  effects every time the basket misses an item and
  a life is lost, furthermore, we want to add sound
  effects to mark the beginning of a new level
  every two thousand points. Discuss requirements,
  benefits, and issues of using new procedures

Under Construction...
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Time Line

• Final Project Due date 4/27
• Code development
• Sprites and Trackers (due date March 30th)
• Splash Screens and GUI (due date April 5th)
• Finish up rest of classes (due April 12)
• Debugging (due April 19)
• Documentation (due April 21rd)
• Enhancements (due April 23rd)
• Release DATE (April 27th)!!!

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Predicted Difficulties

• Code
• Having part of the picture uncover as every 2,000
  pts are reached.
• Not having two images drop at the same exact time
  but rather have them differ in drop by
  miliseconds if it needs to.
• Gamer
• Keeping the gamer interested in this game can
  only be possible with a funny themepicture might
  be a joke, etc

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Related Example

• Inspirations for our game
• -CatchThemAll
• http//ww5.freearcade.com/Ufo.jav/Ufo.html