Session 1
- Introductions
- Intro to Java, including its strengths and weaknesses as a gaming language
- "Hello, World!" applet with colors
- PlayerCharacter class
- Making the applet run an animation thread
- Responding to key presses
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Session 2
- Brief review of Session 1
- Getters and Setters in PlayerCharacter
- Multithreading
- Keyboard event handling
- Using constants to set game world bounds
- Firing projectiles in eight directions
- Adding projectiles to a data structure
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Session 3
- Implementing inheritance for our space objects
- ...and refactoring our character and projectiles
- Smoothing out the firing controls
- Managing memory by cleaning up "dead" projectiles
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Session 4
- Working with random numbers
- Making autonomous game objects (asteroids)
- Collision detection
- Keeping track of score and lives
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Session 5
Session 6
- Review of Session 5
- Switching screens (main menu to game screen and back again)
- Subclassing MHActor to create player ship and asteroids
- Workshop 6 source code
Session 7
- Collision detection
- Asteroids destroy player
- Lasers destroy asteroids (and spawn new asteroids)
- Scoring
- Extra lives
- Workshop 7 source code
Session 8
- Asteroids respawn
- Player respawns (featuring low-resolution timing)
- Particle effects for destroyed player and asteroids
- Sound effects
- "Game Over" screen
- Workshop 8 source code
Wrap-Up Session
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