Frogger Instructions Stephen Kaplan

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Stephen Kaplan
Mike Scott
New Media 160
September 21, 2018
Frogger Instruction Construction

Start:
- Opening Sequence (Short animation, similar to starting a game on consoles would have
skippable animation before start menu)
- Start menu
- Play
- Settings
- Exit
- Need some kind of way to easily make/manage buttons (Class?)
- Need some kind go way to easily manage scenes
- Array of scenes -> Each scene has own set of buttons, images (if needed), and game
elements
- Set number of scenes, perhaps 10 for now
- Select scene with number
- After clicking play, user selects scene with arrow keys, then hits enter to begin (or can
click start button)
- loadScene() function directs program to specific scene object, calls its display(),
updateObject(), showMenu(), and showUser() methods
- Settings menu has text size, music volume, window size, and key control settings
- Default keys: arrow keys. Can change to WASD
- Three text sizes: small (10px), medium (15px), large (20px)
- Music volume: Off, quiet, loud
- Window size: 500x350, 800x500, 1000x650, Full Screen
- Change size of window when user selects different mode.
- Navigate menus with keys
Gameplay:
- 5 lives to start with
- All elements (Logs, frog, grass, cars, etc) have images/generated shapes that add an immersive
feel to the game
- Frogger moves 1 block per key press (void mousePressed() rather than conditional statement
in draw function).
- Can only move forward/left/right, not back
- Frogger (player) starts at center position on bottom row of blocks (1 row of grass field)
- User jumps using arrow keys to different positions
- Sound effects

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Jumping sound
Landing on grass/road/log/lily pad/etc
Colliding with car
Falling in water
Losing life
Victory jingle
Losing jingle
- Rows of road with moving car objects
- Different amount of rows depending on level
- If user collides with car, Frogger loses life. Restart level at start position. No points added to
score
- Higher level, faster cars
- Cars have slightly random size and velocity, but are all similar enough that easy levels go
slower on average and harder levels go faster
- One row of “calm” grass field in between
- Rows of river with moving log, lily pad, turtle, and alligator objects
- User must jump to available space
- If user falls into open river water -> Lose life, restart level
- If user lands on turtle or lily pad above water, safe, move with object
- If user lands on turtle or lily pad below water, lose life, restart level
- If user lands on log, safe. Move with log.
- If user lands on head of alligator, lose life, restart level
- Different amount of rows depending on level
- Higher level -> more rows of river
- Turtle move opposite direction from everything else in river
- Everything in river except turtles travels at same velocity
- If user is pushed to edge of screen, lose life and restart
- One row of forest in at end with safe and dangerous spaces
- 3 safe spots
- Time-based blockers in the safe spots
- User cannot move to forest block if there is no available space. If they land on a blocker
space, lose life & restart. If they simply can’t move, they stay on the log/lily pad/turtle and
flow down the river.
- 500 points for completing level
- Various bonuses added to random blocks
- 100 Extra points
- 200 Extra points
- Double points
- Extra life
- 0.5x speed of cars/river
Levels:
- Read level design from folder of text files

- Generate a level for each text file
- Text files contain array of characters which correspond to grass, river, forest, safe spot,
blocker, and bonus tiles

- This makes it so you can add new levels without reprogramming the game
End Screen:
- Read current high score info from text file
- If life count is >0:
- “You win!”
- Score vs. high score
- If score > high score, enter nickname to keep record of who currently has the highest score
- Store high score info in text file
- Thanks for playing, victor’s message
- Offer to play again
- If life count = 0:
- “You lose”
- Score vs. high score
- Offer to play again, user can click, user arrow keys, or press Y/N to respond. Yes will start
them over at level 0, no will bring them back to the start menu
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