Capsher Game Jam Spring 2023

R.A.G.E. Shooter [Team: S.C.R.A.P.] (Spaghetti Coders Running Advanced Programs)

Welcome to our R.A.G.E. (Rapid Aerial Gravitational Emancipator) Shooter. This is a game built entirely with Python’s PyGame library. The player is an abandoned ship trying to survive. An executable for Windows has been provided for ease of access.

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See how long you can survive!

How to play:

• W and S to accelerate/decelerate
• A and D to turn
• Mouse to aim and LMB to shoot

Classes

• Base(): Template of all objects.
• GameObject(): The basic game object: Children can be destroyed, supported, and rendered.
• Camera(): A child of Base(). This object is used frequently for drawing objects and can be configured to follow an object. Only renders objects inside of a set bound.
• Playable(): A child of GameObject(). This is the base class for all entities, player or enemy, in the game.
• Enemy(): A child of Playable(). Basic enemy type, determines tracking, movement, and behavior. Contains 4 enemy types.
• GameWorld(): Container for entities, handles rendering, physics, and garbage collection of destroyed entites.
• Sound_class(): An unused class that contains sound randomization and simplified sound triggering.

Libraries used

• PyGame (main library for coding the game)
• Internal libraries: math, random

Roles

• Gage: Created enemy movement and AI, created sounds/music, created sprites, story and text system, sound engine, and start menu.
• Hao: Player class implementation, Gun class implementation, Some enemy class implementtaion, and some other miscellaneous.
• Jeremy: Created the gameWorld class, added collision detection, added garbage collection system, added particle system.
• Phong: Overall structure of the project, including class imlementation and interaction, object to object interaction. Gameplay tunning. Integrate all class and finallize the project

What we weren't able to finish

• Sound system. We resorted to removing implemenation of sounds and directly pasting music to the PyGame mixer. Successfully implemented music, but didn't push in time.
• UI
• Text and plot system (in Gage's branch.) We had a plot for the game to create fading text in the background giving hints and a monologue.
• Polishing. The event system needs work and we currently don't have a respawn mechanic. Enemies are too strong and spawn too often. Don't tell anyone, this was intentional. Also, we used the wrong player sprite.
• Adding features. We had 4 enemy classes, but only 1 of them spawned.

Assets

• Sounds/music created in Ableton
• Sprites created in Blender 3.5