Week 11 and the Holidays

During these three weeks, I made quite a bit of progress on the game. Continued to work on the look of the game, changing the graphics for some of the units, the hub and the background.

I have also done most of the movement and firing of units and towers. Although there is a bug were they seem to lose their target and shot to the right of screen. So I put a temporary reset button to fix that problem during testing. Also the units all overlap each other at the moment, and I plan to stop this at some stage.

Work done, holidays and week 11, 21 Sep - 11 Oct;

game - Made graphical changes. Made scripts to control anti-air towers, helicopters and firebombs. Made a script that shows the cost and stat upgrades, when an upgrade button is highlighted. Made a script that makes the Laser robots return to a central position of the screen when not attacking.




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Week 10 - Making the waves

This week I made some functions that control the enemy, once the game is started by the user clicking the start button. The enemies are sent in waves every 30 seconds. The waves are stored in an array, each 30 seconds the next wave gets added to the array and the units get created.

I also did some more optimising of the code, as well as made some graphical changes that are closer to that of the final design. There were some other minor but necessary functions added to the game this week.
Work done, week 10 13-19 Sep;

game - Made some graphical changes to the game, the hub is now at the bottom of the screen. Enemies come in waves every 30 seconds. Helicopters now go to the brewery and steal the beer. Brewery can be damaged. When enemies are killed score increases. Units now cost money, will not allow user to create more if not enough money.

function.as - Fixed show stats functions so that stats are displayed when a unit is clicked or the build unit buttons are highlighted. Function to upgrade units was added although at the moment does not require cost.

waves1.as - Contains the 25 waves of units in arrays.





Will

Week 9 - More coding of the units

This week was spent finished the coding the creation the of the units and towers. As well as the towers and units appropriately moving and attacking. This code was mostly the same as the code used for the previous weeks work, except for minor changes here and there for each unit. At this stage all units are randomly placed at creation.

I made a bit of code that displays the stats of units when highlighting over the respective creation buttons. Unfortunately at the stage it means that the clicking units will not show their stats.

I also put in a bit of work to optimise the code. This included creating a separate action script file that contains most of the external functions that are called at various times.

Work done, week 9 6-12 Sep;

game - Produced code that builds Anti-Air Towers, Fireballs and Helicopters. As well as scripts that control these units movement and attack. Optimised scripts. Changed the buttons in the game and made build/upgrade units tabs.

functions.as - Made an external file that contains functions, some of these are used to optimise the code. Scripted a function that shows the stats of units, when highlighting over the respecting build buttons.

The big red balls are the Fireballs, the hexagons are the Helicopters and the yellow and black things are the Anti-Air Towers. The Helicopters cannot attack, but instead go for the brewery and try to take the beer. The Fireballs attack the towers or the brewery if there is no towers. The Anti-Air Towers can only attack the Helicopters.


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Week 8 - Coding the units

This week was spent doing coding that created and controlled most of the units. Two of the three towers as well as the robot, and one of the enemies units were done. I decided that I will not have the squish robots, as a do not like the idea, I may replace it with another unit, or just remove it altogether.

I also needed to change the stats for the units, as the range was way too short.

Some of the code that was done, was found on the net by doing google searches, from previous projects and samples, or from the MPP forum.
Work done, week 8 30 Aug - 5 Sep;

game - Produced scripts that make as well as control their movement and attack for the Laser Robots, Laser Towers, Missile Towers and Firemen. Made a script that shows the stats of a currently selected unit.

units.xls - Changed the range for each unit.

units.as - Updated from changes made to the excel file.


The black ones are Laser Robots, green Laser Towers, white Missile Towers, red Firemen.




Will

Week 7 - Working on the game units

This week was another when were I didn't do much on this assignment. I worked on getting all the stats for the units down and making sure that they were comparable, although they may need to be changed after some testing has been done.

Work done, week 7 23-29 Aug;
units.xls - This is a excel file with all the stats of all the units.

units.as - An external Actionscript file that contains most of the units stats, hit points, attack, defense, speed-movement, speed-reload, and range.




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Week 6 - Working on the game layout

This week I did a little less work on this project. What I worked on was the menu and in-game layouts of the game.

Work done week 6 16-22 Aug;

Game - Worked on the menu and the in-game layout.



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Week 5 - Online website testing, starting the Game

During week five I did some more work on testing the site. I uploaded the site to the internet to allow some other people to test the site, and found some more errors so I fixed those. The site is here

Currently you can do the following;

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I have also done some of the layout in Flash. I have pushed back the website a bit so that it will be completed at a later date and I will focus more on the game at this stage. I have also changed the due dates for the game as I didn't allow for the holidays originally. My internet is capped at the moment so I haven't been able to update my tasks as often.

I decided to make the site and game have a bit of a retro feel, in terms of colours and fonts etc.
I got some inspiration from some of the following;
Design Melt Down - Retro
Design Melt Down - Retro 2
Design Melt Down - Retro 3

I liked the idea of the following sites header and wanted something similar with the colours;
Good Widgets

I was originally also going to use the following tutorial to make the header, but it wasnt coming out how I wanted, but I still have used the colours.
Retro Text

Work done, week 5 9-15 Aug;

Tested PHP - Tested the PHP of most of the website, except the highscores table

Game - Started doing the layout of the game




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