Space Adventure (Platformer)

In this project we had to make a platformer game. I wanted to have a few things in this game when I started:

• Player using mouse to aim

• A cutscene transition

• Different objectives each level

• Player being able to pick up and switch between weapons

So in my level I combined the tutorial with level 1 so it doesn't feel like you are doing extra to learn the game but you feel like you are playing the game already from minute 1.

In levels 2 and 3 I made it a Control point and Flag capture objective and level one was the activate and escape objective.

Full game playthrough:

In this project we were tasked to create 3 levels with 3 different types of enemies.

My 3 enemies were:

• Melee (It attacks players once they get into his vision range and will be aggroed until they leave the vision range)

• Gun (Will shoot players once they enter his vision range)

• Sniper (Boss) (Constantly tracks players regardless of position and tries to snipe them down)

So for the cutscene, what I did was I made a copy of the previous scene and made all sprites make a lifeless duplicate of themselves and changed the camera focus to an invisible sprite. and when I needed to switch back to level mode I just reversed the operations by creating another duplicate of the actual forms of the sprite in the copied level.

Players would start in lvl1 then the cutscene occurs, then players resume play in lvl1 copy.

I made regions to activate when the tutorial bubbles would pop up, by creating a duplicate level to the first one this also solved my issue of having the tutorial bubbles popping up when you make your way towards the exit.

And the way I made the text appear in a typewritter style was I made 2 variables, one being the string that would be typed/ouput onto the screen and the other is the number of letter that the system would draw onto the screen. therefore ending up with:

So here the typed message is 'W','A','D' or arrow keys to move! and the system would start at 0 and end at wherever typerz is. And this would update every 0.05 seconds to give the typewritter effect on the text.

And typerz would be set to 0 every time the player enters a region that would spawn a text bubble so the typewritter effect doesnt become a one time use thing.

And for the mouse follow mechanic:

I tampered with the values as well for when the character is moving through a scrolling screen or when reaching the end of it to make sure that the mouse tracking and pointing is accurate at all points of the game.

As for the enemy1's vision range and aggro:

I calculated the distance between the player and the enemy and depending on which animation the enemy is using and whether or not the distance was shorter than a certain number, the enemy would be enraged. And after being enraged the enemy would chase after the player as the player runs and tries to juke out the enemy.

And for the guns:

This is the weapon generator that generates the weapon at random

Most of the code for the gun comes from the gun actor I made separately from the player sprite so that it could follow the mouse and not make it look weird:

I needed to make a replica of the code as I needed the gun sprite to be able to flip normally instead of turning 360 and being upside down after aiming behind the player. Which is also why I had 2 sprites instead of 1 for gun animations.