Team 12 Game Development Report 2 – Sonar projectile
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In this weeks development report I will go through the creation of the sonar beam artifact, its purposes in the game and how I made it in c++ with visual studio. What the sonar beam is: The sonar beam is teams 12 games only projectile. It is a projectile which will travel from the player through out the screen, clearing and destroying all of the enemies present on the current screen. The sonar wave will be what is called a ”smart bomb”, a screen clearer. It will act like a power up in the sense that it is available at all times. Why I made the sonar beam: In order to finish the design course and pass the assignment each game was required to have a projectile in the game. At first we did not have a projectile in our game and we had some troubles deciding on how we would implement the projectile. We ended up with the sonar beam because of these reasons: 1. The game play will be quick and action packed and the player will be put into hard situations, having a screen clearing bomb will help players get some breathing room. 2. We discussed having a normal projectile that would be able to kill some enemies and destroy some obstacles but after some discussion we came to the conclusion that the player might have a hard time navigating the environment and shoot and tackle obstacles with precision at the same time. 3. The last and final reason would be that we wanted simple and easy controls and adding a fire button that the player would constantly use would be distracting. How I made the sonar beam: I made the sonar beam using timers and distance measuring. The sonar beam will get the position of the player and when the player is pressing the fire key a sonar beam will be created. The sonar beam will grow in size as it travels away from the player by increasing the scale of the sprite. This is one of the main features I made this week.  |
