Alien Invaders - Progress

Week 1-2

Pre-Production Documents & Game Pitch

Week 3

Assets

·      Turrets

·      Machine turrets 4 lvls + gue upgrades

·      Rocket turrets 4 lvls + gue upgrades

·      Alien enemies 5 lvls

·      Alien ships 5 lvls w/ spin animation

·      Gold icon

·      Gue icon

·      Score icon

·      City health icon

·      Several txt graphic symbols

·      Displayed assets on main scene

Week 4

Menus

Main

·      Title

·      Added 4 buttons

1.     Start game

2.     Instructions

3.     High score

4.     Exit

·      Fixed Sizing on Buttons

·      Added background and detail

Instructions

·      title

·      added back button

·      added instructions

High score

·      title

·      added 10 slots for names and score

·      added back button

·      added background and detail

Gameplay

·      added title

·      added gui

1.     gold

2.     gue

3.     score

4.     health

5.     turrets section

6.     upgraded turrets

7.     back button

8.     my name at bottom

·      game grid

·      enemy path

·      background

Game Over

·      title

·      added back button

·      added background and detail

Week 5

Need to do:

·      Link up all menus

·      Create gameplay level grid with code

1.     2D array for placing turrets and path (view tic-tac-toe)

All

·      Link up menus

·      Added ship to btn rollover

Gameplay

·      added time

·      added path with code

Week 6

Need to do:

·      2D array implemented for levels so that you can add multiple levels to the game

·      working on algorithm to move enemies through path

·      porting over your game to Flash Builder

Game play

·      created a 2D array to save different levels for path and turrets

·      made enemies move along path

·      made working timer

·      made working score over time

·      added gold, gue, and city health

·      added enemy reaching the city makes –health

·      added when health = 0 game over screen is displayed

High Score

·      Implemented a working top 10 high score board with names and score that save

Game Over

·      Enter name that adds to score board

·      Clicking “enter name” makes it blank to enter name

·      Displays final score

All

·      Ported to Flash Builder

Week 7

Gameplay

·      Added drag & drop on first turret

1.     Turret pops onto game board

2.     Place on available spot, then you can no longer move it and it adds a new turret to the gui

3.     Place on path and it goes back to gui

·      Added waves

1.     Wave delay

2.     Wave

3.     Enemy generator

4.     Updates health

5.     Listens for health at 0 for game over with no errors (removes listeners)

·      Added Bullets

·      Enemy Updated

1.     Bullet collision

2.     Enemy dying

·      Tested and no errors(on normal game speed)

Week 8

Next Week:

·      Death animation for alien

·      Implement all turrets in the first two rows

Gameplay

·      Enemy death animation

·      Added enemy health

·      Created and implemented a wave counter

·      Updated gold, gue and score

·      Implemented the first 2 rows of turrets

1.     Made different levels for the turrets which determines the rate of fire

Week 9

Week After Break:

·      *Visual game object adjustments (bullet color for different turrets, etc)

·      Other enemies implemented (ships dropping them)

·      Other turrets implemented

·      *Adjust enemies that take multiple hits to visually change appearance to demonstrate they have been hit

Gameplay

·      Added background

·      Changed path color

·      Made bullets non hollow

·      * Visual game object adjustments (bullet color for different turrets, etc)

·      Cleaned up code/ more efficient

1.     Turrets

2.     Enemy

·      Fixed enemy death

1.     Alpha enemy on death

2.     Removed bg from behind death animation

·      *Adjust enemies that take multiple hits to visually change appearance to demonstrate they have been hit

·      added all aliens to the waves(not ships)/ updated waves

·      changed enemy death/hit reward

·      made enemy health do same damage to your health/city shield

·      made the first turret have a cost of 150 gold

Week 10

Week After Break:

·      Other enemies implemented (ships dropping them)

·      *Other turrets implemented

Gameplay

·      Fixed “Error” while shooting enemies if too many bullets fired it would throw an error if it hit the same enemy to fast

·      Added turret auto targeting

·      *Other turrets implemented (Added other 8 turrets)

1.     Drag drop

2.     Different bullet color

·      All Turrets

1.     Added prices

2.     Fade when not selectable

·      Changed gui set up

·      Changed gui color

·      Arranged turrets and displayed prices

·      Played with alien speeds

Week 11

Next Week

·      *Other enemies implemented (ships dropping them)

·      *Smooth animation of aliens

Gameplay

·      *Smooth animation of aliens

·      Adjusting variables and speeds

·      * Other enemies implemented (ships dropping them)

Week 12

Instructions

·      Updated Instructions

·      Added 5 pages plus flipping through them by clicking an arrow

Week 13

Next Week

·      *Balancing the game (finishing touches)

·      *Implement sound effects

Instructions

·      Fixed right button

Gameplay

·      *Balancing the game (finishing touches)

·      Adjusted waves

1.     Adjusted enemy speed

2.     Adjusted enemy spawning speed

3.     All enemies in the same array

4.     Enemies per level with limitations including what kind

·      Added turret range

·      Changed font color and sizing

All

·      Changed buttons

·      Changed Backgrounds

·      Changed Layout

1.     Font color

2.     Asset positions

·      Changed buttons again

Sounds

·      *Implement sound effects

·      Added to menus

·      Added to game

·      Added to button rollovers and clicks

·      Added enemy dying sound

Week 14

Next Week

·      Finished Game

Gameplay

·      Wave 1 has 9 enemies

·      Changed ships health

1.     First ship has 10 health

·      Reset enemy array each wave to override turrets getting stuck on a dead enemy

·      Fixed sound bug on game over

·      Alien drops by ship instead at first

·      Fixed ship not taking away city health

·      Updated all turrets range, damage, and cool down time and gold/gue cost

·      Added range and dmg/s on gui

·      Added event listener for range/dmg/s to display stats when rolling over turrets

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