COMP222 like Game

COMP222 - 2022 - First CA Assignment
Individual coursework
Asteroids-like Game
Assessment Information
Assignment Number 1 (of 2)
Weighting 12%
Assignment Circulated Friday 4 February 2022
Deadline Monday 28 March 2022, 17:00
Submission Mode Electronic
Learning outcome assessed 2. An appreciation of the fundamental concepts associated
with game development: game physics, game arti-
ficial intelligence, content generation;

3. The ability to implement a simple game using an
   existing game engine
   Purpose of assessment To implement a simple 3D game using a game engine
   library
   Marking criteria The marking scheme can be found in Section 3
   Submission necessary in order No
   to satisfy Module requirements?
   Late Submission Penalty Standard UoL Policy
   I enforce a “no error policy” in this module: If your code does not compile,
   your mark will be capped at 40%. Thus, you may get a higher mark for an
   incomplete solution than for an advanced sketch.
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   Figure 1: Before shooting asteroid Figure 2: After shooting asteroid
4. Objectives
   This assignment requires you to implement a simple 3D game using the jMonkeyEngine
   library. Optionally, you can use Unity 3D or Unreal Engine.
5. Basic Game Description
   The objective of this assignment is to implement a game inspired by the classic arcade game
   “Asteroids”, see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...(video_game)
   and https://www.youtube.com/watch...
   The game is played on a rectangular “field” bounded by walls from above, below, left and
   right (the original game has no walls, but your game has). The game objects (“asteroids”)
   are positioned inside the field and can “float” in a linear movement (by translation). When
   an asteroid collides with a wall or another asteroid, it “bounces” (changes direction according
   to Newton Laws without gravity). A player controls a spaceship that is able to “fly” inside
   the field and to “shoot” bullets. When a bullet strikes an asteroid, the asteroid “breaks”
   into a few smaller asteroids (at least 2 ) that float in directions and speeds different than the
   direction and speed of the original (broken) asteroid. An asteroid can break into smaller ones
   at most 5 times, i.e. when an asteroid of minimum size gets shot by a bullet, the asteroid
   disappears (is removed from the field). The player wins when all asteroids are removed from
   the field. The player loses when an asteroid collides with the spaceship.
   Figure 1 shows an example of the the game’s setup, i.e. within a field bounded by 4 walls,
   there exist 3 asteroids (large green balls) “floating” according to the blue vectors (arrows),
   as well as 1 spaceship (blue triangle) shooting towards one asteroid (red dashed line). Figure
6. shows the effect of the bullet hitting an asteroid, i.e. it is removed from the game and
   replaced by two smaller asteroids (smaller red balls) that float towards different directions
   and speeds than the removed greed ball.
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7. Marking Scheme
   The assignment is split in a number of steps. Every step gives you some marks. You do
   not have to implement them in any particular order. Also, the steps below describe what
   is expected from you in a bit more detail. It is up to you if you implement the following
   functionalities using your game engine’s internal functions, or if you write your own functions
   to do so. Neither choice will be favored with extra points.
   Step 1: Modeling the environment (10%)
   Model the playing field (4 walls), the asteroids and the spaceship. You can either use a 3D
   modeling tool like Blender or use the shapes of the game engine you implement the game
   in. You must put at least 3 asteroids on the field, and exactly one spaceship. Make sure
   that the playing field is relatively large, i.e. if the size of the field does not facilitate smooth
   gameplay, marks will be removed.
   Step 2: Keyboard interaction (20%)
   In this step you should implement the control of the spaceship from input given by the human
   player. Preferably the player should use the keyboard. However, using other input methods,
   such as the mouse, is not disallowed. The step is further divided into smaller sub-steps.
   Step 2.1: Implementing “fly” (15% / 20%)
   In this step you should implement the “flying” of the spaceship. The spaceship has some
   initial direction and has its initial speed equal to 0. Assuming you take input from the
   keyboard, you assign 4 buttons: button “forwards” increases the speed of the spaceship
   along the current direction; button “backwards” decreases the speed of the spaceship along
   the current direction; button “rightwards” rotates clockwise the direction of the spaceship
   with some fixed angular speed; button “leftwards” rotates counter-clockwise the direction of
   the spaceship with some fixed angular speed.
   Step 2.2: Implementing “shoot” (5% / 20%)
   In this step you should implement the “shooting” of the spaceship. Assuming you take input
   from the keyboard, you assign 1 button “shoot” which releases a bullet from the position
   of the spaceship and along the current direction of the spaceship. The speed of the bullet
   should be relatively fast (at least faster than the spaceship). The amount of bullets is for
   you to decide. The interaction of the bullet with the asteroids is described below in Step
   3.3.
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   Step 3: Physics 30% total
   The purpose of this step is to model the physical interaction of the game entities. The step
   is further divided into smaller sub-steps.
   Step 3.1: Implementing “float” (5% / 30%)
   In this step you should implement the “floating” of the asteroids. They move linearly
   according to a given initial direction and speed.
   Step 3.2: Implementing “bounce” (10% / 30%)
   In this step you should implement the “bouncing” of the asteroids. When an asteroid
   collides with a wall, it should reflect off the wall. When two (or more) asteroids collide with
   each other, they should reflect off each other. The bouncing should follow Newton’s Laws
   and should not take gravity into account, because supposedly the game takes place in outer
   space. When an asteroid collides with the spaceship, the player loses.
   Step 3.3: Implementing “break” (15% / 30%)
   In this step you should implement the “breaking” of the asteroids. An asteroid “breaks” into
   smaller ones after it has collided with a bullet. “Breaking” means that the original asteroid
   is removed from the game and is replaced by 2 (or more) smaller asteroids. The direction and
   speed of the smaller asteroids should be different than that of the removed asteroid. (I don’t
   pose any other restriction, it’s up to you how the smaller asteroids behave.) Also, breaking
   of an asteroid should be done at most 5 times, otherwise the game will never end. I.e. when
   an asteroid of minimum size breaks, it is removed and not replaced by any asteroid(s).
   Step 4: Gameplay (20%)
   Add a visible points count and some kind of game levels. The point system is up to you to
   define, for example every hit of a bullet with some asteroid gives 1 point, or you can have as
   points the percentage of bullets used to bullets that have hit asteroids. To get full marks for
   this steps, you should have at least 2 levels and it should be clear when the player progresses
   to the higher level. Moreover, it is important that the levels have increasing difficulty. How
   this is achieved is again up to you, e.g. higher levels can have more asteroids, or faster
   asteroids, or break into more asteroids, or can break more times, or combinations of these
   options.
   Step 5: Creativity (20%)
   You can see that the marks for the steps described above add up to 80%. In order to
   get 20% extra you need to be creative and implement some nice features. Below are some
   ideas: use textures, sound effects, lighting, power-up packs (making the spaceship immune
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   to impact with asteroids, or even able to function as a bullet itself), implement some system
   on acquiring bullets, etc. Also, the above specifications do not define what happens if the
   spaceship or a bullet hits the wall. Typically, they should simply stop at the point of collision.
   However, you can be more creative here, and implement a weird bounce, or that they can
   exit the field from the point of collision and re-enter from the opposite side (like the original
   game).
8. Deadlines and How to Submit
   ❼ Deadline for submitting the first assignment is Monday 28 March 2022, 17:00
   ❼ Submission is via Canvas accessible from
   https://liverpool.instructure...
   ❼ All submission must contain the source code, the executable, the necessary files for the
   runtime execution and a report.
   For jMonkeyEngine submissions you are advised to export your project (File →
   Export Project → To ZIP) and submit the ZIP file. Please ensure that the files you
   submit can be loaded into jMonkeyEngine.
   For Unity and Unreal Engine you are advised to build & export your game so that
   it runs independently of these platforms; instructions are found online. To submit the
   code you have scripted, copy it to a txt file. Please ensure that your submitted game
   is playable.
   Please submit the report in the form of document (in pdf-format) containing a
   check list indicating whether the above marking points have been implemented successfully.
   In the extra features part of the checklist, describe the features you have
   implemented.
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