Wave Game

Mar 11, 2023

Wave Game was my final project for my Object Oriented Programming college class.

The final project assignment was simple: Make a video game using Java from scratch.

Now being a GameDev and at that point having 4 years of making games under my belt. I decided to go above and beyond.

I chose to make my favorite genre of game: Bullet Hell. Where there's so much chaos ensuing on the screen you don't know what it happening.

Since the game was made from scratch. I pretty much had to make a mini game engine. With a game loop and an object handler to run through every object's update and render methods.

Now about 80% of my time was spenting making the game loop and object handler. The other 20% of my time was making:

• Spawner to spawn the enemies. The spawning was based on time. The longer you survived the more enemies would be on the field.
• Health System to make the game have an objective: Survive
• Game Menu & Game Over Screen to start and restart the game.
• From there all I had to do was add another enemy type and switch up it's stats. So I had time to make 4 enemy types before I had to submit it for my class.

The enemy types are:

• Red Square: Basic enemy, normal slieed.
• Blue Square Turret: Turret that sits on the edge of the field and shoots out bullets making it harder to cross.
• Light Blue Square: Fast enemy. Pretty much Red Square but lightning fast.
• Big Gray Square: Slowly follows the player.

And now all I had to do was come up with a name: Wave Game (I know I put a lot of thought into it)