git clone https://github.com/YangVincent/Domination.gitcd Dominationopen Domination.jar
This was designed to be a hybrid of Canyon Defense and Double Edged. This is a two player game, where each person sends different units towards the opponent on a grid. The game ends when a Monster reaches the lines of the opponent's side.
Thorough documentation can be found here.
Sun Tzu:
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across
People get in-game money periodically, which they can then use to buy more units or powerups, such as extra health, etc. Through using the arrow keys as well as WASD, each player may control the row at which they deploy units. Meanwhile, they can press Enter or Space respectively to actually deploy each unit.
Units stop when they meet an enemy unit, and deal a set amount of damage until the target enemy loses all of its health. Standard Monsters cost less money to deploy but are weaker than certain others. Meanwhile, Juggernauts have a great amount of health but very little damage. On the other hand, other Monsters are extremely quick and can cover considerable distances and spatial advantage over the opponent. In return, they have very little health and damage.
When a player has enough money, he or she can use the money to buy Monsters. Alternatively, he or she can use it to buy boosts. Boosts have different capabilities - some restore health, others give extra strength.
Near the end of the project, I decided that there should also be cheats. This is merely for the purpose of being able to and enabling some certain advantages.
I used VioletUML Creator to design and plan out my initial project via a UML. The UML went through many changes, as core portions of the project were shifted around and others were brought in place, such as the XML. This actually went through several iterations - It started out as a two person tower defense game - Each person would be able to designate offenses and defenses on their sides of the grid, and the first player to breach the other's defenses would win the game. This idea was later scrapped as it was not feasible within the limited timeframe given - a mere two weeks.
I decided to use in-game sprites as opposed to gifs because gifs operated at different speeds depending on the computer. Also, certain gifs would not change to other actions at certain times. For this reason, I decided to use sprites instead to directly control which gif was shown when, as well as to change sprites depending on which action the current Monster was taking - Walking, fighting, etc.
Another decision was to use Object Oriented Programming - Since this was the final project for AP Computer Science (Java), the choice to have certain Monsters extend from others was a relatively simple one.
- Sprites
- Money
- Store
- MultiThreading
- Cheats
- Powerups
- Panel switching through CardLayout