Week 5

Assignment 5

pong game (class 2) with FUNCTIONS
pong game FLA with Functions

pseudo-code for midterm

PONG/ Bullet Game/1player:
1st screen: 3 Buttons: Level 1 - Level 2 - Level 3 / player chooses
LEVEL 1: objective kill MickeyMouse / avoid 5 bullets / speed 15 start of ball
LEVEL 2: objective kill bozo Clown/avoid 8 bullets /ball smaller/speed start 18
LEVEL 3: objective kill ? / avoid 10 bullets/ ball smaller than level 2/ speed at 20

LEVEL 1
- paddle: Mr T
move up and down only, with the mouse (mouse Y)

[zball]
-starts at base of MM
-ball is ‘released’ when mouse clicks on ‘start’
-when ball hits MrT, changes direction
-when ball hits MrT, speed of zball goes faster
-if ball hits Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse release a bullet

[Mickey Mouse]:
-moves up and down (other side of screen) at same speed as ball speed
-when Mickey Mouse reaches top or bottom of stage, then change direction
-when zball hits (hitTest) Mr T, Mickey Mouse speed increase
- zball collides with (hit test), Mickey Mouse, fires a bullet (attachMovie)

[bullet]
-attached by Mickey Mouse, when ball collides with Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse releases bullet
- need a counter for num bullets created so far
continuously (onEnterFrame):
- moves up at a set speed
- checks location, removes itself at left of screen (removeMovieClip) , counter evadeBullet ++
-if counter evadeBullet > 5, then Mickey Mouse dies (gotoPlay frame 2 of Mikey Mouse Instance) and go to LEVEL 2 (gotoPlay frame2 of level intance)
- checks for a collision Mr T (hitTest)
- if hitTest with Mr T, Mr T dies (gotoPlay frame 2- Mr on back, dying, fall down to bottom of screen) and bullet removes from stage(removeMovieClip)
-display text “you loose” try again? ”
-display button YES – if yes , gotoPlay frame 1?
-display button NO -

[score1/ zball and bullets]
-score counter ++ for zball collison with Mr T
-score linked to Hittest score+1 when zball hits Mr T
-score +5 when Mr T avoids bullet (if bullet_y < Mr. T_y, then score +5)
-score=0 if zball hits right side of stage

Week 5

Assignment 5

pong game (class 2) with FUNCTIONS
pong game FLA with Functions

pseudo-code for midterm

Week 4

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FLA

(From clay animation with Paris in Methods of Motion class)

Week 3

Assigment 3:

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FLA

Week 2

Assignment 2

- variables
- scope, 'this' keyword
- conditionals
- simple programmatic animation
- the MovieClip class
- hitTest

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FLA