CS 8803 Design Game GamesRamkumar MS CS MS CS

Interesting Game(??!!??)  Tough task to choose   A game has to be both funny and challenging to make the people play.  Choices: Grand Theft Auto, The Game of Life,Pocket Tanks  Chosen one: The Game of Life

Features:  Board Game  Invented by Milton Bradley  Multiple Versions  3 D Play Area  Objective: Collect maximum money and LIFE Tiles money and LIFE Tiles  Plethora of options and variety  Non-mathematical complexity  Alternative to Real life  Family Game  Lack of boredom

Game Play:  Life Tiles  Career Cards  Salary Cards  House Deeds  Stocks  Insurance Policies  Bank Loans  Money  Cars and Pegs

2 Ideas 1.Robozzle  Puzzle game  Objective: Program a Robot  Difficulty levels –easy to hard  Multiple players simultaneously playing online independently - Ranks online independently - Ranks  Freedom of Level design can be done by the player after crossing 40 levels. by the player after crossing 40 levels.  Educational content – How to program !  Educational content – How to program !

Robozzle- Game Play  Robot – Right facing triangle  Objective – Pick all the stars from the board. stars from the board.  Movement Commands Right Left Left Straight Straight  Function Commands to  Conditional Commands

Robozzle – Organizing code in functions  F1 – Main function  For repetitive commands, use other functions like F2 to F5. Similar to function calls in programming  Using a function that calls itself  Using a function that calls itself  Puzzle Design : A unique option which actually can improve puzzle solving skills improve puzzle solving skills  Robozzle Development: --Open projects

2.Bulldozer

Bulldozer – Design and Development  Puzzle game  Simple to play  Left, Right, Forward and Undo  Similar to Robozzle in terms of elements constituting the game but different in game play  State of the bulldozer to be saved for undo  Designing new levels – to be done in code unlike robozzle  Designing new levels is easier  Plausible implementation as a class project

3.Minesweeper & Sudoku  More challenging than other games.  Involves logical reasoning.  Puzzle Solving Algorithm -A  Puzzle Generating Algorithm - B  B definitely more complex than A  Design of new levels  Implementation of Design  Minesweeper– Programmatically  Sudoku – Programmatically or normally

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