For my Midterm Project, I wanted to create a simple yet fun and interactive game that you could play on the go. I decided to create “Catch It!”, a catch game where elements fall from the top and the player needs to move the basket to avoid bombs and collect enough elements before the time ends to move onto the next level.
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My game would consist of elements falling from the top of the screen randomly at different positions. There would be a basket present at the bottom which is controlled by left and right keys. Every element that is caught by the basket gives points to the user. However, if a bomb is falling, the user should move to another position and try to avoid it. There will be a time limit for every level. If the user gains enough points within the time limit, they move on to the next level. The difficulty increases with each level. The speed of falling elements will increase, the frequency of bombs will increase, and the time given will decrease. Furthermore, once in a while, a special power-up element will fall, which if you are able to catch will make you immune to 1 bomb. For each level, the player gets to choose a theme.
I implemented a prototype just to test the falling and collision detection, the most crucial parts of the game. The screen is divided into rows and columns forming tiles. The element would fall tile by tile down the screen from a random column and will either be caught by the basket or miss the basket and go out of the screen. Once the element goes off-screen, it respawns at the top.
Here is what my sketch looks like so far: