Fresh Meat

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Fresh Meat

• Created by Alison Crawford and Laura Mathe
• Inspired by the Experiences of Freshman Girls
  Everywhere

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Game Overview

• Party-Boy Chad is a fifth year senior at Duke.
  Having spent the past four years facing rejection
  by women his own age, he has decided this year,
  to focus solely on freshmen girls. Chad must find
  freshmen girls while avoiding anyone older than
  eighteen and everyone male. Above all he must
  beware the Resident Coordinator, Leslie Valley,
  who looks young but in reality will break up his
  party. Chad will be awaiting the freshmen at the
  West Campus bus stop, where he is flyering for
  his party. Chad gets 1 point for every freshman
  girl he intercepts, -2 for older girls, -5 for
  guys, and game over for Leslie Valley. If Chad
  can get 30 points within 1 minute, he will throw
  a successful party! Congrats Chad.
• What changed? Party-Boy Chad is not really at the
  bus stop. Instead, he is on the quad on the grass.

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Game Design

• Sprites
• Trackers
• Collisions
• Score
• Splash Screens
• Game Completion

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Sprites

• Party-Boy ChadImageSprite moves with mouse
• Freshman GirlsImage Sprite in ArrayList
• Older GirlsImageSprite in ArrayList
• GuysImageSprite in ArrayList
• Leslie ValleyImageSprite in ArrayList
• WallsNO
• As of the progress report All of the sprites
  were different colored rectangles. We had not
  completed the handleCollisions method for Leslie.
• What changed? We decided we didnt need a wall on
  the bottom to symbolize the fraternity section.
  Originally we were going to use an Arrays for the
  falling characters, but ultimately decided on an
  ArrayList.

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Trackers

• We will need trackers for
• Freshman Girls
• Older Girls
• Guys
• Leslie Valley
• As of the progress report MeatTracker had been
  completed and implemented for all sprites.
• What changed? Nothing! Trackers for these are all
  under MeatTracker

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Collisions

• Upon colliding with Party-Boy Chad or the
  fraternity (the wall at the far end of the
  screen), the freshman girls, older girls, and
  guys will disappear. Leslie Valley, however, will
  make Party-Boy Chad disappear.
• Collisions will also affect the score.
• As of the progress report Still working on
  Leslie Valley collision and collision with wall.
• What changed? We completed the Party-Boy to
  Leslie Valley collision. We decided not to place
  a wall at the bottom of the canvas.

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Score

• Score will be changed when Party-Boy Chad
  collides with other sprites
• Add 1 point for freshman girls--DONE
• Subtract 2 points for older girls--DONE
• Subtract 5 points for guysDONE
• As of the progress report This was completed.
• What changed? Nothing. These point values are the
  same.

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Splash Screens

• At the beginning of the game
• The title screen
• Synopsis of the theme
• At the end of the game
• Winning or losing screen
• As of the progress report None of this had been
  completed.
• Now A title screen, two explanation screens, and
  a screen introducing the characters appear at the
  beginning of the game. A winning screen, failing
  screen, or losing screen appears at the end of
  the game depending on what happened.

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Game Conclusion

• The game can end three ways
• If Party-Boy Chad gets 30 points before the time
  ends, he succeeds in throwing his party
• If Party-Boy Chad fails to get 30 points before
  the time ends, his party is a failure
• If Party-Boy Chad collides with Leslie Valley at
  any point, she reprimands him and does not allow
  him to throw his party
• As of the progress report We had not yet written
  the code for the games conclusion.
• Now The hasWon() method contains the first two
  endings, while the handleCollisions() method
  contains the code for the third conclusion.

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Basic Game

• We should be able to complete at least the
  following within the deadline
• Make sprites for Party-Boy Chad, freshman girls,
  older girls, guys, and Leslie Valley using
  ImageSprites to distinguish between them
• Make sprite for the wall (will not be an
  ImageSprite)
• Add trackers to freshman girls, older girls,
  guys, and Leslie Valley so they move
  independently
• Make Party-Boy Chad responsive to mouse input
• Make the sprites behave accordingly during
  collisions
• Record score
• Make it possible to win or lose the game
• Add splash screens

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Basic Game(continued)

• As of the progress report We had completed the
  basic code for Party-Boy Chad, freshman girls,
  older girls, guys, Leslie Valley, the score, the
  timer, and the tracker. However, we had not
  completed the handleCollisions() method, nor had
  we begun coding the games ending. We also had
  not made the splash screens.
• Now We added images to the sprites we designated
  as ImageSprites but eliminated the wall. We
  completed the handleCollisions() method and the
  hasWon() method to give the game a conclusion. We
  also added splash screens.

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Possible Enhancements

• Add a scrolling background
• Add more levels
• Party-Boy Chad chooses his party attire
• At the party
• Add a competing Party-Boy controlled either by
  another player or by the computer
• As of the progress report We had not done any of
  these things
• Now Though we did not add a competing Party-Boy
  or add levels, we did add a scrolling background.
  We also added sounds, images, and several splash
  screens as simple enhancements. We also made the
  movement of the characters a little more
  interesting by giving them different velocities
  and using some trig(aah!) to give them random
  horizontal velocities.

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Timeline

• Design of video game, classes, methods, and
  state Nov. 21st
• Implementation of basic game Nov. 25th
• Testing/Debugging Nov. 30th
• Documentation Dec. 2nd
• Enhancements Dec. 9th
• Release Dec. 14th
• As of the progress report We thought we were on
  target.
• Now Our enhancements and documentation were a
  little bit delayed. We also had to do some
  debugging after we added the enhancements.

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Bugs

• When the user reaches the winning or losing
  screen, the images continue to fall. We decided,
  however, that we liked this little feature, as it
  added character to the final page.

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Future Work

• We could do a lot with this game like
• Add the enhancements we originally liked but
  didnt have time to implement
• Add more levels, making the game increasingly
  difficult by decreasing the number of freshman
  girls and increasing the number of other sprites
• Add another Party-Boy who would compete for the
  freshman girls

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Criteria Completed

• Javadoc source code documentation 100/100 points
• We authored every class, added explanations of
  classes and methods, and indicated what return
  values and parameters meant
• Web Page Documentation 100/100 points
• Javadoc, working applet, game proposal, progress
  report and presentation are all linked up with
  instructions for the applet.
• Game Functionality 190/200 points
• Basic game functions are correct-100 points
• Several simple enhancements images, sound,
  splash screens, movement of sprites toward random
  place on horizontal plane and scrolling
  background-90 points