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Purpose: development of a computer game

Target audience: beginners, interested, onlookers

Tools: ActionScript 3.0









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Introduction

The inspiration for the mini-game was the old warm " Duck Hunt ". However, the repetition of anything practically deprives this process of creativity, turning it into a boring routine. Yes, and copies of this game, most likely, already have (carefully, you can get an aesthetic shock from the flight of ducks). It must be remembered that a small game is being created, so do not overload it with unnecessary features (and so there are some pretty funny variations ).

We will do some team parody of old computer games, thereby justifying any noticeable use of the objects of someone else’s copyright for which the parody is being made.

Sketch

When drafting a sketch, I stopped thinking that I was creating a game about duck hunting. In Figure 5, you can familiarize yourself with it: an abstract screen, on which abstract targets fly, which must be abstractly destroyed. Everything. Everything else details.



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Prototype

Note 10:

For abstract purposes, one could come up with some kind of simple animation (static black square), but since I already had an animation for ducks, then I found it permissible to create the goals I needed right away. Figure 6 shows a simple UML diagram:



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On the abstract CDisplay screen, the abstract targets CTarget fly , which CTargetEmitter releases, using the CTargetFactory abstract target factory . The user is prompted to shoot down targets with abstract CWeapon weapons (with the CWeaponMagazine shots shop ).

Figure 7 shows a screenshot of the resulting prototype.



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Ducks CDuckTarget extends CTarget become targets that are proposed to destroy from a single-shot ( CSniperRifleMagazine extends CWeaponMagazine ) sniper rifle CSniperRifle extends CWeapon .





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CRandomTargetFactory extends CTargetFactory allows you to combine different target factories into one, so CTargetEmitter can release different goals for a particular strategy (in this case, in a pseudo-random manner).



CGame is a sequential set of CRound rounds to be displayed on the screen. A general statistics CStatistic game consists of statistics for each round. CRound carries all the necessary information in order to be able to play it: how many and with what speed to release goals, what effects to use, what to consider as a successful completion of the round, etc.

"Duck Hunt"

Note 12:

I want to disappoint, but the idea of ​​embedding a mini-game in another game gradually ceased to please me for certain aesthetic reasons. Therefore, you most likely will not see her in this role. But we will be consistent, we will arrange the game as a separate one, the good will not disappear.

We will not discuss here which of my "designer". CDuckHuntGame extends CGame adds a user interface and some styling to our mini-game.

CNickGenerator is a simple generator of funny nicknames inherent in one famous game.

Clouds are defined as targets in the usual way ( CCloudTarget extends CTarget , CCloudTargetFactory extends CTargetFactory ). It is not necessary to destroy such targets, so they are brought out of the current list of targets. The factory is able to generate animation for clouds of various sizes from a primitive cloud. In Figure 10 you can admire an example of what is produced.



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Figure 11 shows a screenshot of the resulting game.



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Note 13:

I don’t insert a SWF video into the article, and my website on a free hosting will obviously not be happy even with a relatively small influx of visitors. I decided to look for a platform where I could post my video, and it would be available to everyone. During the search, the service “rawgit.com” was found, which provides a wonderful opportunity to open a file hosted on “github.com” right in the browser.

Demonstration of the game (attention! Sound!).





Note 14:

If you try to assemble a SWF movie yourself, then note that in order for all the ducks to be in place, they must first be removed from the project and then added again. This is how Flash works. We will fix this situation later when the application context setting tool appears.

Conclusion

In the next issue:

• We will return to the utilities: a testing tool and an application context setting tool;
• We take into account the error of the first article: there will be what to play.