1945 SCROLLING SHOOTER GAME
POSSIBLE ADDITIONS

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Description

Points

1

Graphic alteration 1

Change your plane to a different object or plane.  Your object needs to make sense in the game and needs to look good to get the full mark.  You cannot use a graphic that comes with Game Maker.

1

2

Graphic alteration 2 & 3

Change a different object other than your plane.  Your object needs to make sense in the game and needs to look good to get the full mark.  You cannot use a graphic that comes with Game Maker.

1 each
(max of 2)

3

Animation

If your customized graphic contains animation (gif animation), then you get another point.

1

4

Boss Plane

Add a boss plane with the larger characteristics:

  • Visually larger than other planes
  • Multiple hits required to kill it
  • Shoots bullets
  • Stays on screen (while moving) until death

4

5

Other Enemies

Add a different enemy other than the base planes added in our short version tutorial.  Give it a different speed than our original enemy.  You can use the graphics provided by GameMaker if you wish.

1

6

Other Enemies 2

Add a different enemy other than the base planes added in our short version tutorial.  Give it a different speed than our original enemy.  You can use the graphics provided by GameMaker if you wish.

1

7

New Island

Add a fourth island.  Make sure it appears over and over like the others ones. 

1

8

Double Bullets

Instead of shooting one bullet coming out of the nose of your plane, make it so that you shoot two bullets at once.  Each bullet comes out from the wings of the plane.

1

9

Secondary Weapon

Add a different weapon.

·      Works with different key.

·      Different sprite (not just size difference).

·      Works differently a regular bullet.

2

10

Health Bar

Add a health bar so that you do not die immediately when you get hit.  Instead, your hp goes by a certain amount and you die when it reaches 0.  You are allowed to use the ideas of the tutorial for this.

2

11

Health Pack

If you added a health bar, then you can randomly give out health packs.  If your plane collides with it, it gets an hp bonus.

1

12

Engine Booster Pack

This can be a randomly distributed pack that boosts the engine’s speed when it is picked up.

1

13

Multiplayer

Include a second player that can be controlled via the keyboard.  Should include:

  • Decent key letter choices for control.
  • Different looking sprite.
  • Full functionality (killing, dying)

2

14

Music

  • Add a background music track.

1

15

WASD

Change your plane movement controls to work with WASD instead (or as well as) of with arrow keys.

1

16

Other

Any code/actions that you add to give your game functionality will give you at least a point.

1+

 

 

 

EXTRA TASK

 

You are asked to create your own GIF images using a GIF animation software.  One easy option is to use PiSkel – a free online sprite and GIF animation creator.

 

You need to do the following:

 

  • Recreate one of the explosion sprites from the game.  Like the original, it needs to be animated.
  • Recreate another GIF animation from the game.

 

You will be given 5 marks for this work.  Your mark will depend on the quality (and quantity) of your added animated sprites.

/5