CS Principles

AP Computer Science Programming

Game Author
Oliver French
Game Image
Space Game image
Game Description

Shoot the aliens to stay alive!

Game On Mobile?
No
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Game Challenges

Getting the aliens to stay within the layout and going at a random angle.

Game Unfinished Component

I wanted to make a “you died” screen.

Game Next Steps

If I had more time, I would have increased the number of aliens that spawn after the user kills a certain number.

Game Author
Adrien Dezon-Gaillard
Game Image
game image
Game Description

I wanted to make a difficult platformer game that couldn't be beat on the first try.  The extra additions of the pathfinding ghost and the upside down parkour makes the game hard to beat.

Game On Mobile?
No
Game Course
Game Year
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Game Tool
Game Challenges

This game's biggest challenge is the flying ghost that kills the character whenever they come in contact.  This brings your character back to the start which can be frustrating.  The upside down world in this game is also challenging as people aren't used to playing games upside down.

Game Unfinished Component

I was super happy with how my game came out and had nothing important that I wanted to add that I didn't get too.  If I had to add something, I would switch to a 3rd gravity switch midway through so the game could be more complicated.

Game Next Steps

I just saw a platformer game that could run up the angled platform blocks.  I would have liked to do this because the character in my game gets stuck against the invisible part of the block.

picture of angled platform blocks

Game Author
Charlie Filkorn
Game Image
game image
Game Description

Multiplayer soccer game where players control the movement of their foot with the arrow, and WASD keys. The goal is to move the ball to the opponents goal which spans the length of the end line. The first player to score ten goals wins.

Game On Mobile?
No
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Game Challenges
  • Making the ball move on contact with the feet.
  • Making the ball act as a circle
  • Make the feet act in the shape of the foot
  • Creating WASD control
Game Unfinished Component

I wanted the ball's motion to continue when the feet lost contact with the ball like would happen when a real soccer ball is kicked.

I would like the feet to be allowed slightly out of bounds but not too far.

 

Game Next Steps

I would make the ball's motion continue after contact with the feet is lost.

Decrease the border width at the edge that prevents the ball from going to the true edge.

 

Game Author
Mica Cummings
Game Image
Game image
Game Description

Make a game where rango the lizard kills enemies that spawn on one side of the board and slowly build up throughout. you win by killing 100 enemies.

Game On Mobile?
No
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Game Challenges

Making the enemies walk the correct direction toward the player and having them move better.

Game Unfinished Component

I got most of what I wanted as I thought it might be more complicated than reality. I kind of got burnt out near the end though and it was hard to think of and make new improvements to the game.

Game Next Steps

I might try to make the enemies more advanced with their movements and make them stop when they reach the player. Also improve the strength of the enemies as you make it farther through the game.

Game Author
Joss Clegg
Game Image
Game image
Game Description

Create an extremely difficult maze to complete. The maze would have random places where you get teleported to other places on the map, as well as lots of dead ends that get the player stuck in random parts of the map. Ultimately however, it is possible to finish.

Game On Mobile?
No
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Game Challenges

Adding the spotlight feature so that the user only sees a small radius around them, and not the entire map.

Game Unfinished Component
  • Adding a mini-map to the game. 
  • Possibly add a monster that chases the player around the map.
Game Next Steps

Add a mini map that shows the player the general area they are located in the large map, along with where the keys are in the map

Game Author
Tyler Meadows
Game Image
RetroDisk Image
Game Description

A simulated version of Ultimate disk, similar to the game Retro Bowl

Game On Mobile?
No
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Game Challenges

Having the players stop moving when holding the disk (cannot move with the disk in the real game).

Game Unfinished Component

I couldn't figure out an efficient way to have the other team score, I wanted to use a random number generator but couldn't figure it out.

Game Next Steps

Hopefully make the other team play more, and score so they game could be competitive. 

Game Author
Ember Brinker
Game Image
Brinker Monster Shooter Image
Game Description

The player has to shoot oncoming monsters. Everytime they kill a monster they get a point and the monsters speed up. Once they reach 25 points they win the game. If they miss a monster and it gets to them it kills the player and the game is over.

Game On Mobile?
No
Game Course
Game Year
Game Genre
Game Tool
Game Challenges
  • Having two event cheers and figuring out how to navigate switching screens when buttons were clicked with both event sheets
  • Getting the monsters to speed up when the player shoots one successfully
Game Unfinished Component

Adding more types of monsters or shooters. Something to make the game more complex and difficult.

Game Next Steps
  • I would make the game more difficult and add different types of monsters with different speeds and different amounts of shots it took to kill them.
  • Possibly make it a two player game and see who could kill more monsters and not die in a certain time period.
Game Author
Chase Renzulli
Game Image
Zomb Hunter Image
Game Description

You try to kill zombies and live long enough to get evacuated

Game On Mobile?
No
Game Course
Game Year
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Game Tool
Game Challenges

Just working through bugs, finding the problem

Game Unfinished Component

Id love to make animations for the movements, and an animated evacuation/win screen

Game Next Steps

More global variables that change the game

Game Author
Leo Powers
Game Image
Racing Game Image
Game Description

Race around a track indefinitely while chased by a dumb AI car

Game On Mobile?
No
Game Course
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Game Tool
Game Challenges

Getting the computer car to track to the waypoints

Game Unfinished Component

AI car was a little buggy, couldn’t figure out why

Game Next Steps

Countdown

Game Author
Dexter Hartsfield
Game Image
Caving Catastrophe Image
Game Description

You’re stuck in a cave filled with dangerous amphibians, find a way to escape! 

There are two special features of this game:

  1. It works with a game controller if one is installed, meaning that it could also work on any device that has a controller, such as a phone.
  2. The graphics were all drawn by the author!
Game On Mobile?
Yes
Game Course
Game Year
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Game Challenges

Putting in the animations and getting them to do what I want. You might be able to tell that they still sometimes don’t do what I want >:(

Game Unfinished Component

I think I did pretty well on doing most things I wanted to, but there's some more animations that I would have liked to put in, like the player needs a jump animation.

Game Next Steps

I think I would want to make more levels or just expand the level currently there so there's more stuff to actually play.