Concept
For my midterm project, I really wanted to learn to work with sprites and add movement to my characters. An idea for the game came to my mind when I looked at different sprite sheets on the internet and found pony characters. I chose them because their movements include flying,jumping as well as walking, which seemed really interesting to work with. You can see an example of the sprite below:
That’s why my game concept will be around the theme of the cartoon “My little pony” 😁 I am planning to make a game similar to vertical jumping games, where my rainbow pony(character of Rainbow dash) will fly in the sky, and maintain the weather and clear the skies. The player earns bonus points for every cloud cleared and loses points when the character hits a bolt of lightning.
Process
As the first step into my game, I started working on backgrounds and an algorithm that changes the background and indicates a change of level. So I created a dummy variable that increases with time and that leads to a change. I also added background music to my sketch.
Next steps
1. Create classes for clouds and lightning and locate them into my canvas
2. Make my pony move
3. Work on the point counting system which will then lead to the change of levels(background)