2023

Anna Simonelli
CornTopia Image

I wanted to create my own version of the platform game. In my game, the player collects corn as energy points. These energy points allow the player to defeat enemies. Each time the player kills an enemy, two new enemies spawn. Once the player has defeated five enemies it wins the game.The player should keep an eye out for surprise features during the game.

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Platformer
Construct 3
Game Challenges
  • It was difficult to make the enemy move. Once I did get the enemy to move, it was only moving in a straight line and would always end up stuck in the corner
  • I also had difficulties editing my tilemap after I initially set it up. This caused lots of issues and I had to start over the day before it was due (copy and paste did not work on my code so I had to rewrite it all)
Game Unfinished Component
  • Every time the player jumps the enemy jumps. I wasn’t sure why this was happening because I turned the automatic controls off for the enemy.
  • I also would like it if the enemy was always heading towards the player
Game Next Steps
  • I would add more surprise elements. I currently have the magic corn, which is worth ten corn points, but I think it would be cool to add other elements
  • One element that I would have added is a portal for the player to travel through to another spot on the screen
Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Simonel…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Simonel…
Lucas Parisi
Space Platformer Image

I set out to try many of the features that construct offers, like adding behaviors to characters as well as items, and using them to fit my goals for the game.

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Platformer
Construct 3
Game Challenges
  • Sine Behaviors
  • Platformer behaviors (simulating movement)
  • Painting tool (customizing sprites)
  • Finding a set of sprites that fit the theme, as well as finding stock images for the background
Game Unfinished Component
  • The goal was to add more ins and outs to the game like moving platforms, portals, and more animations
Game Next Steps
  • More animations
  • Moving platforms
  • Portals
  • Items
  • Weapons
  • Effects
Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Parisi%…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Parisi%…
Will O'Malley
Mole Shooter Image

Combine platform, and shooter games into one with hand drawn characters.

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Fighting / Shooting
Platformer
Top-Down Shooter
Construct 3
Game Challenges

Trying to get the mole to shoot both ways where the bullets would follow the mole's movements.

Game Unfinished Component

I didn’t get to do a level 2.

Game Next Steps

I would add more levels. Add another thing to collect.

Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/O%27Mal…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/O%27Mal…
May Nasta
Randomly Generated Platformer image

Construct platformer tutorial but levels are randomly generated. There’s also a new enemy.

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Platformer
Construct 3
Game Challenges

Figuring out how to get the jumper enemy to move from platform to platform. Also just dealing with construct in general was annoying.

Game Unfinished Component

I wanted to make the jumper’s jump height/sustain/whatever based on the platform it would move to. With the current values I haven’t tested enough to be sure that it can make any jump. I also didn’t add hitboxes to the enemies which I considered doing.

Game Next Steps

It would be cool to figure out how to generate levels that aren’t just standard left to right.

Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Nasta%2…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Nasta%2…
Asa Dodd
platformer(DC) image

It was supposed to be a progressive platformer game(for sure did not come out as what i wanted, because it is horribly incomplete)

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Platformer
Construct 3
Game Challenges

Interactions of elements between layers of the game, deciding what i did and didn’t want to interact with each other.  

Game Unfinished Component

Little fixes like element positions, character animations, user interactive accessibility, and bigger stuff like more challenges, instructive text throughout to help the user, and a boss fight at the end that got detrimentally truncated

Game Next Steps

Fix all the current problems with the game(small fixes from above)

Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Dodd%2C…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Dodd%2C…
James Bellizia
VERY ORIGINAL PLATFORMER image

I set out to make a Platformer that had randomized key locations based on each round of the game. I then wanted to make it so that the keys unlocked a door at the top of the map. I wanted to use as little of the tutorial as possible and figure most of it out as I worked.

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Platformer
Construct 3
Game Challenges

The randomization of the key locations was pretty difficult, as well as the overlay of the background layer.

Game Unfinished Component

I wish I had had more time to randomize the location of the locked door and make more levels of play. I also wish I had added enemies and maybe a timer so a player could try and beat their time.

Game Next Steps

I would probably figure out how to randomize the door location and make another level if possible.

Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Bellizi…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Bellizi…
Aidan McNamara
Eyeball Game image

The “Eyeball Game” is a 2D shooter game where the player is an eyeball that shoots blood to kill its opponents. Each opponent has its own unique power (the bigeye monsters spawn purple minion monsters, the “Lila” themed monster turns every opponent invisible if you are touched by her and you must shoot blood at her to make them visible again, and the “Kaia” themed monster releases fast and deadly butterflies to chase the player when she is shot).

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Fighting / Shooting
Top-Down Shooter
Construct 3
Game Challenges
  • Making sure to hit the save button before closing the tab (I learned this the hard way)
  • Giving each sprite its own unique behavior 
  • The artwork took a lot of time to complete especially considering I am not very artistically inclined
  • Being able to gauge how many sprites there should be in the game to make it challenging enough but not possible
Game Unfinished Component
  • More unique sprites
  • Sound effects
  • Explosion effects
  • Multiple levels with different opponents on each level
Game Next Steps
  • I would want to create multiple levels to the game and have it follow a story arc
  • I would want each level to have it's own set of unique opponents the player must take on
Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/McNamar…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/McNamar…
Kaia Sleeper-Spady
Scuba Cat image

You're a cat who is scuba diving. Your goal is to destroy as many fish as possible by shooting bubbles at them.  All art was created by Kaia!

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Arcade
Fighting / Shooting
Construct 3
Game Challenges

Making the cat animations work properly was challenging.

Game Unfinished Component

If I had more time I would have made a “win” screen once all the fish were destroyed, but it still works because there are too many fish that replicate too fast to destroy them all.

Game Next Steps

I would like to make more fish designs that aren't just different colors.

Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Sleeper…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Sleeper…
Ryan Rankin
three keys and a door image

I set out to create a game that was an infinite loop, I wasn't really too interested in keeping score and wanted the player to discover what the goal was on their own!

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Platformer
Construct 3
Game Challenges

I originally planned on making several levels of the platformer game, but upon looking more into it I decided that my energies and time was better focused on perfecting a difficult but not impossible singular level, that would likely take the player more time than a multi level game may have done.

Game Unfinished Component

I considered adding monsters, or another sprite that would also reset the player back to the beginning, for an added layer of both coding and playing complexity, but I am ultimately content without them as the game takes long enough on its own.

Game Next Steps

I would probably dive more into creating new levels, and maybe adding more obstacles!

Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Rankin%…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Rankin%…
Andrew Poehlmann
Monster Shooter Vol. 2 Image

I wanted to build upon the early monster shooter game that we built in the tutorial, and heavily enhance it to make it much more enjoyable and complex. By elevating the shooter game by creating complex maps, multiple levels, a boss, lives, and many other aspects, I completely revamped the app into something far more complex and interesting.

Game On Mobile?
No
CS Principles
2023
Top-Down Shooter
Construct 3
Game Challenges
  • Getting the robots to actually move, asked classmate (Lucas) on his thoughts in order to troubleshoot.
  • Getting the bullets to move properly, they were shooting off the screen beforehand. Bullets would shoot from outside of the screen if the player was on a corner of the map, so I had to flip the layers and rename one of them.
  • With the “Move to” behaviors, it was difficult to work with because I tried multiple different configurations of the same basic code until it eventually worked.
Game Unfinished Component
  • I really wanted to add one more level to the game but I ran out of time towards the end of the project.
  • I also wanted to add more enemies for the user, but not just enemies that shoot.
  • For instance, I wanted to add an enemy that would be a fast moving spike that would target the player.
  • If the spike hit the player, it would deal damage.
Game Next Steps
  • Like I said before, with another week, I would have added some more levels, along with new details to the map.
  • I would also want to add new guns, and possibly some power ups for the user to get.
  • I also would like to add certain items that would grant the user certain effects.
  • It would have also been a goal of mine to make the game multiplayer, but something like that would likely take me several weeks to really build and construct well.
Game Play Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Poehlma…
Game Source Code Link
https://wright802.com/StudentProjects2023/Poehlma…
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