COLLEGE: The Experience

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COLLEGE The Experience

• Lauren Bradel, Wilson Guan, Matthew McGlone,
  Marcus Sanchez, Larry Walters

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Agenda

• Current Progress
• Architecture Overview
• Problems Overcome
• Javadoc Tour
• Demo

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Current Progress

• Splash Screen
• Player Creation
• Custom Name and Gender
• Quick Start
• File Menu
• File New Game, Quick Start, Drop Out, Quit
• Options Toggle Sound
• Help Help, About
• Arrow Key or WASD Movement

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Current Progress

• End Game
• If Health or Energy reach 0, you die
• 200 points subtracted from your final score
• Drop Out
• Survive
• 100 point bonus for surviving
• Final Score based on your stats
• Random Events
• Rain happens randomly
• Special Activities available in the rain

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Current Progress

• Activity Menu
• Double click enabled
• Tree stays expanded
• Added MANY more activities
• Inventory
• Items can be used and acquired
• Needed for certain activities
• Can be viewed in a separate tab

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Current Progress

• Locations
• Added off-campus area
• Added more realistic details
• NPCs
• Actual NPCs not just scenery
• Conversations
• Lets the player know about different activities
• Specific activities for different NPCs

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Current Progress

• Display
• Double-buffering and pre-resized images in
  WorldScrollPane to make rain display efficiently
• GameLogPanel added
• HTML based
• Displays Activities, Conditions, and
  Conversations
• Game pauses when over the Log/Activity
  Menu/Inventory
• Animated Background Tiles

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Architecture Overview

• Application
• Self contained
• Not network aware
• Implemented APIs
• Graphics Java2D Java.awt.Graphics2D
• Sound MP3SPI Java Sound SPI
• Input ActionListeners Java.awt.event
• Major Packages
• javax.swing., java.awt.
• java.util., java.lang., java.io.
  java.math.
• javax.sound. javax.xml.stream

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Problems Overcome

• Double Buffering
• Lagging display when rain was introduced
• Activity Menu Tree
• Difficulty preserving content
• Difficulty focusing

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Javadoc Tour

• Javadoc
• http//ugrad.cs.jhu.edu/group1/doc5/doc/index.htm
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Demo

• Now lets see how far COLLEGE has come...