hightechu/hightechu-openspace

"Open Space" Browser Game Prototype from Cohort 1 of the 2019 HighTechU Skills Academy

🌌 Open Space

Open Space is an arcade game currently in development to deploy as a browser and mobile game.

Play Open Space Here: https://openspacegame.herokuapp.com/

🌎 Our Mission

Open Space was designed with stress relief at the forefront of our minds. Open Space is an environment where you can feel free of anxiety, and just take a few minutes to relax from the stresses of daily life. We researched various techniques at reducing stress and implemented as many as we could into our game. The research can be found here

🚀 How to launch locally

1. Download or clone the repository
2. Download node if you haven't already here: Node Download
3. Install the ionic cli using npm install -g @ionic/cli from the command line
4. Navigate to the local repository you downloaded and run npm i in the command line
5. Now run ionic serve in the command line and after a minute or so your local server should automatically launch in your default browser.

📤 Contributing

There are two main ways in which you can participate in the project:

• Submit bugs and feature requests
• Contribute to the code base through source code changes

Learn more in our Contributing Document

📜 Code of Conduct

Open Space abides by the CNCF code of conduct. Here is an excerpt:

As contributors and maintainers of this project, and in the interest of fostering an open and welcoming community, we pledge to respect all people who contribute through reporting issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or patches, and other activities.

If you believe someone is violating the code of conduct we ask that you report it to our email [email protected]

💡 Feedback

We are always looking to improve so your feedback is appreciated. Here are some ways you can give your feedback.

• File an issue
• Request a new feature

📢 Communication

Come to talk to us!

• [email protected] - Email us with any questions, or just to say hi!

⚖️ Licence

This project uses the MIT Licence

hightechu-openspace's Issues

Set a space for error messages

Create a welcome page with a signup and login button

Create linear stages and visual stage map

1. Stages should have start and end points.
2. Create a visual level map to be shown between stages.

connect pages

Game sound effects

1. Sound effects to be applied to game navigations buttons
2. Sound effects be applied to in-game actions (lasers, rank up, etc.)

Create enemies with unique movement patterns

1. Enemies will spawn as the player progresses, appearing from the edges of the player's screen.
2. Enemies will have different movement AI to maneuver and attack the player in ways unique to each enemy.

Initial physical gameplay layout

1. Once the Instructions pop-up is closed, the background is displayed and start's to scroll
2. The players ship is visible at the bottom of the screen.
3. Obstacles randomly scroll into view in front, and then past the player

Title Screen

Background colours changing (menu to choose your colour)

Change `master` Branch to `main` Branch

More Information Here: https://github.com/github/renaming

Credits page

1. Add a button on the title screen called "Credits"
2. Create a page for this button that lists the programming and stress-relief resources used, their websites, and their creators (and us). Also link to the game's GitHub repo.

options menu

Finish working on enemy ships

1. Create proper sprites for enemies
2. Bind enemy lasers to enemies, so that they only spawn on enemy ships.

Introducing the tools we'll be using (Ionic/Angular) to the team.

ship controls

scoring

fuel

Basic title screen

1. A title screen is displayed, with the game's logo and a "Start Game" button that starts the game.

Front page animation

Deployment platforms

1. Have the game deployed to a URL and Local Mobile
2. The game opens to the title screen on the loading of the website or native app.

collision

Create functional health bar

1. Health bar/meter must be created (integer variable displayed visually)
2. Different enemies should do different amounts of damage to player (basic assigned values; variable math)

Have each button open the corresponding popup

Quotes API went down, replacment needed (temp fix in code, see issue)

Our quotes API went down during the development of this project https://web.archive.org/web/20210101051009/https://type.fit/api/quotes
so on line 137 of https://github.com/hightechu/hightechu-openspace/blob/main/src/app/popup.service.ts
we manually added a third of the quotes from the API. This is a temporary fix and will be reworked at a later date.

Add laser to player ship

1. Have Spacebar (PC) / tap screen (mobile) bound to "shoot." Fires the ship's weapon.
2. The weapon will create a new instance of a projectile and launch it away from the player, towards the top of the screen.

Controls & Introduction popup

1. Upon starting a new game, a popup with controls will appear.
2. The instructions will include a

• Simple backstory
• Player Controls

3. A back button to return to the start screen
4. A "Let's Go!" button that starts the gameplay

Relaxing, Non-copyright music.

Find royalty-free music that is calm and fits the tone of the game (space adventure) to use in the background of gameplay.

Enemies attack the player

1. Enemies should be able to fire weapons autonomously, which do damage to the player on contact, lowering player health (variable math)

Pause button

Add a button on the game screen that pauses the level (using mostly the same system as when the player dies).

music

Interactable Stage Map

1. Level map should be interactable - can click on a stage to view personal best score and start / reattempt the level.

Checkpoint Screen with encouraging message

Player Create Account

1. Have the user input the nessesary data and complete a simple captcha
2. Create a new instance in the database for the user
3. Store their username, email, and password
4. Log them into their newly created account

Ship movement controls

1. Have arrow keys (PC) / hold finger on screen (mobile) bound to "player movement." Will cause the ship to move around the screen.
2. Clicking "a" or the left side of the screen will maneuver the ship left
3. Clicking "d" or the right side of the screen will maneuver the ship right

that hook thingy

Start a firebase project with a cloud firestore database

Restart Screen/Round over

NEW ASTEROID SPRITES

New sprites in 32x32, 16x16, 8x8. thank u :)

asteroids

shooting asteroids

physics

UI