Hotbox Ultimate

Andrew Gervia

This is a digital take on an Ultimate Frisbee game called hotbox. Your teammates will cut in and out of the box to shake their defenders. Move your player to the disc using WASD, then aim your shot with the mouse and shoot using Left click. If the disc connects with your teammate inside the box you score a point.

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Game Challenges

Figuring out which movement to give each sprite was the most difficult. It was also hard finding out how to have the defense follow their marks.

Game Unfinished Component

I wanted this to be how the game plays in real life, with offense becoming defense on a turnover and vice versa. I also wanted the teammates to be able to catch the pass outside the box and pass on their own.

Game Next Steps

I would find a way to make the game more realistic in the sense that you play offense and defense and the enemy team can score, making it so there would be a way you could lose this game.

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Game Citation

Abstract Platformer Pack by Kenny Vleugels [CC0] (https://www.construct.net/out?u=https%3a%2f%2fwww.kenney.nl%2fassets%2fabstract-platformer)

MMU CS Overview

Mount Mansfield Union High School currently offers two Computer Science courses:

AP Computer Science Principles (CSP)
Computer Science Discoveries (CSD)

Deprecated and replaced by CSD in 2019:

Introduction to Computer Science and Principles (ICS+P)

Most years, the final four to six weeks of each of these courses is spent designing and building a game. Some students work independently while others work with a partner. In the Spring of 2020 and Fall of 2021, students did not have the time to build a game because of the covid pandemic lockdown. Their final projects for class were uploaded instead, and many of these projects are not games but are still very impressive.

Many of the games were created in Scirra's Construct 2 (Windows based) or Construct 3 (web based), although some utilized Scratch or Python or another programming language. Other students choose a project in robotics or with Arduino programming, but they did not create a stand-alone program that could be placed in this accumulation of programs.

There are several excellent games from 2014 that have not been put into the Game Table, so be sure to check them out!