Sam Perry
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3.6 KiB
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93 lines
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\begin{document}
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\title{ECS742\\Interactive Digital Media Techniques\\Assignment 2: Processing Game}
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\subtitle{\LARGE{Report}}
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\author{Sam Perry\\Student Number: 160842984}
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\date{}
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\maketitle
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\section*{Procedure}
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Following instructions provided to create the initial game was a relatively
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straight forward task, given previous experience in programming. The most
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prominent problem was an array indexing error that occured when the
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projectile left the screen. This was quickly fixed by adding conditions to
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check if the projectile was on screen before attempting to access the
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groundLevel array.\\
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On completion of this, a number of further features were implemented to
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build on the basic game. These included adding graphics to the background
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(and other aesthetic changes), generating more detailed maps at random, and
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adding a blast radius to projectiles when coliding with objects.
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\section*{Findings}
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It was observed that a number of DSP related techniques applied to
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animations and content generation in this project.
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For example, the generation of custom terrain was implemented by summing
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sine waves of randomly varying amplitudes and phases. This generated hills
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and valleys randomly (within pre-determined limits) to create a different
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user experience for every game. Collision detection is also dependant on
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sampling theory. For example, is fired directly from one tank to the other,
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but the velocity is so high that it will cover over the width of the tank
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in one frame, the projectile will appear to pass straight through the
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target tank.\\
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The other main features involved expanding on code that had been written
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for previous tasks. for example, creating growing blast radiuses involved
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checking for a collision with an object (such as the ground or a tank),
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increasing the size of the object on each iteration, then checking for
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collisions between the object and a tank.\\
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The main difficulty, although rather minor, lied in adjusting to the Java
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language. As familiar concepts such as passing variables by reference do
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not exist in the language, learning the ``Java/Processing way'' of
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implementing features was the main skill aquired in this project.\\
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There are many further improvments that could be implemented in this
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project. However, it would be of great benefit to refactor a large amount
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of the code to take advantage of programming models such as OOP. This would
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allow for quicker and less ``hacky'' implementations of features and would
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improve overall code quality.
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