Corning Community College
CSCS1320 C/C++ Programming
Commence work on some new game of your choosing. The aim is to document and pace your progress over the remaining weeks of the semester, putting your C programming skills to work in accomplishing the task at hand.
You will want to go here to edit and fill in the various sections of the document:
This will be a joined documentation page for all the magX projects for the remainder of the semester.
Your task is to record your individual game's progress, updating it weekly to reflect new changes made.
NOTE: an aspect of the project is your interaction on the class discord, over a number of days for the week.
In this game, you are a college student pursuing an IT degree at a mysterious and undisclosed location. You came into this college positively, hoping to do minimal work, party, and waste all your parents' money, but… tragedy struck. You were kidnapped and now are stuck behind the ever-present bars of the fearful and evil professor, Mattchoo Hassatious' classroom. You must escape his impending unsurvivable due dates, and are forced to play his inexpressibly inhuman games.
The gameplay is that of a rage platformer (inspired by a game called jump king), combined with elements of puzzle solving and quick thinking.
Dimensions: (x, 64)
player animations would be inspired by jump kings animations
walking left (4 different animation frames) (right will be mirrored)
running left (4 frames) (right will be mirrored)
crouching left (4 frames) (right will be mirrored)
charging a jump (2 frames) 1 frame to start charge and last frame would be a still image as you are locked in for the jump
initial jump (2 frames) 1 frame that is an animation of the character pushing of the ground, and last frame is a still image as you fly up in the air
free fall (4 frames) (flailing arms and legs) after reaching the peak of your jump, the player will start falling down, this is when the free fall animation will initiate.
Faceplant (only need one still image of a face planted on the ground): The image will immediately change upon impact with only one frame change, emphasizing the impact force.
idle (4 frames)
You are a paranormal investigator exploring a long-abandoned manor for any signs of activity. You are given the keys to the manor by the owner, but as soon as you set foot inside you are locked in. At first, you seem to be alone, but it is soon apparent that everything is not as it seems. The halls begin to distort as your mind escapes you. To leave with your life you'll have to investigate the house and figure out what's causing the disturbances. Can you survive?
The gameplay will be a horror-themed dungeon crawler with a boss at the end. Rooms will be randomly generated with puzzles to solve and enemies to avoid.
Investigator (main character) Dimensions: (32, 64)
player animations
2-4 frames walking left, up and down (right will be mirror left) 2 frames crouching (behind objects to hide from enemies) Item use animation - there will be items to collect and use and I'll want an animation for the use (I'm imagining something like when your party Pokemon use a move outside of battle if that makes sense)
enemies
a couple undead enemies that will walk towards the player if they are in view probably just left and right walking animations 2-4 frames
rooms
I'll plan out the rooms to have puzzles or enemies in them and ideally they will be randomly generated rooms so each playthrough is different 640×360 screen resolution so that will be the size of my rooms. I'll need at least ten unique rooms to make it enjoyable
jumpscares
I want the enemies and some environment objects to jumpscare the player and I am thinking a few frames of a blinking image (640×360).
boss
I want the final boss to be an exorcism of this paranormal creature that will have choreographed attacks. The boss itself will have 4 frames of idle animation while its attacks come up
To be successful in this project, the following criteria (or their equivalent) must be met:
Let's say you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following:
lab46:~/src/SEMESTER/DESIG/PROJECT$ submit DESIG PROJECT file1 file2 file3 ... fileN
You should get some sort of confirmation indicating successful submission if all went according to plan. If not, check for typos and or locational mismatches.
I'll be evaluating the project based on the following criteria:
260:mag2:final tally of results (260/260) *:mag2:submitted Vircon32 cartridge [26/26] *:mag2:submitted C code XML and build script [26/26] *:mag2:cartridge is NOT added to repository [26/26] *:mag2:changes from previous weekly snapshot [52/52] *:mag2:committed project related changes to semester repo [26/26] *:mag2:(day 1) activity pertaining to game on class discord [26/26] *:mag2:(day 2) activity pertaining to game on class discord [26/26] *:mag2:(day 3) activity pertaining to game on class discord [26/26] *:mag2:(day 4) activity pertaining to game on class discord [26/26]