Game Development Lesson 2

By Maria Cruz Farooqi

​Game Development Lesson 2

​Learning Target: I can apply game goals, new spawnable objects and new game mechanics that can make games more interesting.

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Many games are centered around specific ​

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, like ​

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a boss or ​

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all of the coins in a ​

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. In other games sometimes need to get to a specific location in a ​

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.

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objectives

defeating

collecting

level

specific amount of time

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This is a method that belongs to the ‘​

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’ object. The name of this method is ​

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, and it takes one argument: the number of enemies that ​

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before the hero accomplishes the goal of the scene. If you do not pass an argument to this method call, then your hero will ​

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in the scene before the goal is accomplished.

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This is a method that belongs to the ‘​

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’ object. The name of this method is ​

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, and it takes one argument: the number of the hero ​

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. If you do not pass an argument to this method call, then your hero will need to survive until ​

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in the scene have been accomplished (like defeating a certain number of enemies).

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This is a method that belongs to the ‘​

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’ object. The name of this method is ​

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, and it takes ​

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argument: the unique ​

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you would like to generate in your scene.

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game

spawnMaze

one

id of the maze

Multiple Choice

What does the addDefeatGoal do?

• It describes how long your hero has to survive in a game level in order to win.

• It describes how many enemies you need to defeat in a game level in order to win it.

  
  

• It generates a unique maze.

  
  

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What does the addSurviveGoal do?

• It describes how long your hero has to survive in a game level in order to win.

• It describes how many enemies you need to defeat in a game level in order to win it.

  
  

• It generates a unique maze.

  
  

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What does the spawnMaze do?

• It describes how many enemies you need to defeat in a game level in order to win it.

  
  

• It describes how long your hero has to survive in a game level in order to win.

  
  

• It generates a unique maze.

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Remember, ​

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are the rules that govern how a ​

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with a game and how a game interacts with a player.  


In many games, you can ​

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using your mouse. We can now ​

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in order to get our hero to ​

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.

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We will need to call many of the methods that we have seen so far in ogre to create an ogre-fighting game. Two methods that we should call are the ​

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and addDefeatGoal methods. It depends on what you want! If you want to have your ​

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, like the defeat goal, are not met, then we don’t pass any arguments to the addSurviveGoal. If we want our hero ​

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, no matter how many there are, then we don’t pass any arguments to the addDefeatGoal method. What else should we add? Enemies? ​

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? You ​

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First, we need to ​ spawn the right maze. In this case, we want the ​

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maze, so we want to pass 5 to ​

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. Then, we need our hero. We can spawn the captain with ​

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. We want our hero to win the game if they defeat 3 munchkin enemies, so we call addDefeatGoal(​

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) and spawnXY(“​

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”, x, y) three times.