Dodge game

Objective:

• Design and implement a game where a player may side to side on the screen in order to dodge falling objects

Directions:

• Find a sprite image or draw a sprite for your player
• Find an image or draw a shape for a falling object (e.g. spike, bomb, etc.)
• Side-to-side movement
  • Your player must be restricted to the bottom of the screen
  • Your player must only be able to move to the left and right
  • The player may NOT leave the screen (i.e. there are walls on the left and right edges of the screen)
• Falling objects
  • Place several objects at the top of the screen
  • The objects should fall (move) automatically to the bottom
  • If an object hits the bottom, then move it back to the top
  • Randomize the x-coordinate when you place objects back at the top
• Successful dodge counter
  • Every time the player successfully dodges a falling object, increase a counter on the screen by one
  • HINT: A player successfully dodges if the object hits the bottom and you move it back to the top
• Collisions
  • If the player collides with a falling object (i.e. if the object hits the player), then there should be a game over message
  • If the player successfully avoids 100 falling objects, then there should be a win message

Advanced Features:

• Power-ups - Good items
  • Add items that randomly drop that are good for the player (e.g. slows down the falling objects, temporary invincibility, speed boost)
• Lasers - fire back
  • Add the ability to fire a laser back at the falling object so that they cancel each other out
• Health meter
  • Instead of losing from a single collision, add a health meter to your game. If the player is hit, then your health decreases, and you lose if your health hits zero
• Difficulty levels
  • Add different levels of difficulty to your game