X-Savior

Isaac Garcia

I designed this game to be a combination look of Namco's hit arcade classic Galaga and Nintendo's hit side-scrolling shooter game Gradius. It's about a Starship serving the starbase Interprize, while protecting it from a barrage of meteors trying to destroy the main shield reactor that keeps the starbase running.

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Game Challenges

Getting the sprites to look the best that they can be. All the sprites were drawn by me, and by wireless mouse too. I didn't know why I thought to hook up my drawing pad to my computer to draw the sprites but hey, I got them done but it did take a while to get everything down.

Game Unfinished Component

I wasn't able to implement a shooting function for the starship so I had to improvise another function. So instead of making the starship shoot projectiles, I made it have a permanent shield that way it can push the meteors away from the Shield Reactor, which in turn gives the player points.

Game Next Steps

If I were to do anything differently, I would probably ask to move the project to a different game making platform to actually make my game, like Construct. If I were to have made X-savior on Construct, I feel like it would be a really good game in terms of mechanic's story and overall pick up and play genre.

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!