IAD ZHdK Programming Basics

Templates, examples and projects for the IAD Programming Basics Course at ZHdK.

Download the Flappy Processing Template here.

Flappy Processing

Features

🐙 ≙ Easy to start with

⚡️ ≙ Challenging

• Mechanics
  • add and display a highscore 🐙
  • end game if player is out of screen 🐙
  • end game if player hits a wall ⚡️
  • add a key-lock to the space key
• Scene
  • add second wall
  • add upside down wall
  • add multiple walls ⚡️
  • create a game object list ⚡️⚡️
• Visual
  • display a background image 🐙
  • display an image for the player
  • display an image for the wall
  • create a parallex background ⚡️
• Story
  • create start screen
  • create end screen with restart option
  • create pause screen

Input Versions

• FlappyProcessing_input_0

• FlappyProcessing_input_1

  • Collision detection is added for both simple circle and rectangular collisions
  • A powerUp class is added, and a powerUp object now appears in the game

• FlappyProcessing_input_2

  • PVector physics implementation is added

• FlappyProcessing_input_3

  • A state machine is added, and keypress event to change between states

• FlappyProcessing_input_4

  • A new class is added that demonstrates the use of importet graphics and sprite animation using arrays.
  • Sound is added