Dodge game

Objective:

• Design and implement a game where a player moves 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); however, if you want, you can make the screen wrap for the player.
• Falling objects
  • Place an object at the top of the screen
  • The object 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
  • As the game progresses, more and more objects will fall from the top (continue reading below)
• 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
  • When the dodge counter hits different ranges, the levels will get harder with more objects. (continue reading below)
• Increasing difficulty
  • When the dodge counter starts, only 1 object should be visible
  • If the counter is greater than 10, then another falling object should start to fall
  • If the counter is greater than 20, then another falling object should start to fall
  • Increase the difficulty progressively as the game plays. You should eventually have at least 8 objects on the screen
• 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 500 or more falling objects, then there should be a win message
• 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 a little bit
  • The health meter should be a sprite with multiple costumes (~10 total), and each costume is smaller than the one before
  • When the player is hit, broadcast a message to the health meter to tell it to change costume
  • You lose the game when your health hits zero

Advanced Features:

• Lasers - fire back
  • Add the ability to fire a laser back at the falling object so that they cancel each other out
• 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)