Final project
Proposal:
1) My final project will consist of the rough beginnings of a personal version of Zelda, the well known Nintendo video game. By completion of this course, a game will be created in which the main character will use a sword, arrow, boomerang, shield and bomb to fight enemies on at least one level that has the ability to be as large as required for an entertaining game. All weapons should be able to interact with the environment and enemies should try to follow and kill the main enemy. A boss fight will be made if time is available.
Deadlines:
Tuesday November 30th: The endless level is complete, all weapons are complete but not neccissarily interactive with enemies. sounds are complete for weapons and background, character animations are complete.
Tuesday November 6th: Enemies are created with hit-test of heroes weapons, try to implement steering behavior.
Thursday November 9th: Possible boss fight and story created.
Review w/ instructor:
All deadlines fall on class dates and will be reviewed with instructor .
Journal #1.
a) The level is complete and the caracter now can move into an area and have the level form around him. he can move up, down, left, right and diagonally and no longer moves out of the level. all weapons are in the game although the animation for the weapon being used is not yet. I have made it so that arrows and the boomerang are unable to pass through walls and trees. Sounds are also complete. I have gotten decent arrow and boomerang noises and the arrow "TWANGS" if it hits something. there is even a sound when the caracter uses his sword.
b) Because of the holidays I was unable to get finished as much as I would have liked. Although I am still nearly caught up with my calendar. I am having difficulty figuring out how to make my character look like he is moving when I press the arrow keys, however. When moving the character, the arrow keys are held down and I dont want the animation to repeat every split second. With the sounds I could use the sound's length to determine when to repeat the sound, but I don't know if there is such a command for graphic movie clip. I am thinking that I might place a soundless movie clip with the graphic animation and repeat the clip when the sound is done.