Defenders

Andy Wolf

Make a game that wasn’t hard but make it look interesting. I have different levels with different backgrounds that move up when the score gets high enough. I made it so that when the sword is thrown that it rotates just like how it would if you were to throw a sword in real life. I wanted to make it so that you would gain lives as the levels went up but it was too hard to do and the game is fairly easy. This game is supposed to be very addictive and fun and not at all challenging.

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Game Challenges

Making the sword move with the character. At first the sword wouldn’t move with the character like it was supposed to and it took a bit in order to find out how to make it happen. Eventually with some help, my goal was achieved and the sword would move with the character like it is supposed to.

Game Unfinished Component

Adding a life for every level cleared. Trying to add a life every time the level changed was difficult to do because I wanted to do it once but every time I tried to make it, the lives would keep going up. Another thing that didn’t get done was the difficulty of the levels. I also wanted the difficulty of the game to increase as the level goes up but I couldn’t figure out what to do to increase the difficulty.

Game Next Steps

Try to add a life after levels are cleared. I really wanted adding lives to be part of my game as sort of a reward system for the players. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to add just one life after the level changes. I would’ve also made the game more difficult for the player so that the game is more addictive.

MMU CS Overview

Mount Mansfield Union High School currently offers two Computer Science courses:

AP Computer Science Principles (CSP)
Computer Science Discoveries (CSD)

Deprecated and replaced by CSD in 2019:

Introduction to Computer Science and Principles (ICS+P)

Most years, the final four to six weeks of each of these courses is spent designing and building a game. Some students work independently while others work with a partner. In the Spring of 2020 and Fall of 2021, students did not have the time to build a game because of the covid pandemic lockdown. Their final projects for class were uploaded instead, and many of these projects are not games but are still very impressive.

Many of the games were created in Scirra's Construct 2 (Windows based) or Construct 3 (web based), although some utilized Scratch or Python or another programming language. Other students choose a project in robotics or with Arduino programming, but they did not create a stand-alone program that could be placed in this accumulation of programs.

There are several excellent games from 2014 that have not been put into the Game Table, so be sure to check them out!