Create a retro-style game to run on this beautiful arcade cabinet.

If you need inspiration, check out:

Vector arcade games on Wikipedia Vectrex games

Also consider downloading MAME and playing some retro games.

I want to bring the cabinet to the State of Play festival and the Project fair with all of your games running on it. You will be able to select the game to play from a menu of all your games. That way 100's of people will see and play your games. The rules:

• You must include a splash screen with instructions, game screen(s) and a game over screen
• You must write all the code yourself, though you can take code from the example projects we made in the class. If you use code we developed in the class, you must modify it substantially yourself.
• You should make all the art yourself. I suggest you procedurally draw everything to make a vector graphics style game.
• If you are good at drawing, you can make your own sprites as an alternative to procedurally drawing everything
• Keep in mind the theme for this years Games Fleadh is "Endless Runner" so you might want to make one of these and enter it into Games Fleadh too!
• You can use the keyboard or mouse to control your game. I haven't figured out how to reprogram the controllers on the arcade cabinet yet, so you should start with the starter code, which loads the keyboard bindings from a properties file.
• You should try and use git to manage your source code for the project and submit a link to your git repo. I will look at your git logs to see how much time you have spend on this assignment.
• You should spend at least 2 full days on the assignment.
• The assignment is due to be demoed in the lab the week of 26 January.

Alternatively! You can form a team to do an Imagine Cup project, however the rubrick below aplies regardless of what project you decide to do.

Marks:

Code: 30% Gameplay:30% Project management: 20% Visuals: 20%

Rubric