#Extinction
This game is called Extinction. You play as a small
dinosaur, and in just a few minutes, a meteor will
crash into your island home. Your goal is to evolve
until you are sufficiently fast to escape the island
before the meteor arrives.
The other dinosaurs will ignore you until you get close
enough to them; after that, all dinos on your screen
will charge you until they (or you) die. The white
circle around the mobs shows their aggro radius, which
depends on their size. Larger dinos have more HP, deal
more damage, give more XP, and move more slowly than
smaller dinos.
You can move with the WASD keys, and use the spacebar
to attack. If you destroy another dinosaur, you will
gain XP. You may also gain XP by eating small plants
(just walk over them!).
When you gain sufficient XP, your dino will become a
little faster and you will be healed to full HP, but
your maximum HP will go down. If you ate a lot of
plants, the aggro radius of the enemies will shrink
(camoflage); if you killed a lot of dinos, your damage
will go up.
You can see your health bar on the left side of the
screen, you XP bars along the bottom, and the meteor
timer on the right side.
Walk to the highlighted tiles on the edge of the map to
explore a new, somewhat-randomly generated area!
This game was created in February and March of 2015,
for CMPS 20 at UCSC. The game designers are Andy Baden,
Brett Hatch, Alex Hosick, and Matthew Sanfrey. It's
almost entirely written in JavaScript, with a couple
HTML5 things. We used the Phaser game engine, version
2.2.2. All art and music was home-made; the attack SFX
were borrowed from www.bigsoundbank.com.
Andy was responsible for much of the programming,
including: player movement, player and mob attacks,
sprite-sheet animation, and mob AI. He also researched
game engines, and helped us all to figure out how to
work with Phaser.
Brett was responsible for creating the tilesets, and
programming transitions between maps, interactivity
with the edible plants, and mobs varying in size and
stats.
Alex was responsible for creating the music and
programming the UI, tracking the player's health, the
end conditions, and XP and the level-up system.
Matthew was responsible for creating most of the visual
art, as well as programming the menu system, the pause
feature, and the ending screens.
If this .zip doesn't work, you can grab it from GitHub
at github.com/Jabaden/DinoProject .
We hope that you enjoy our game!
Known issues:
- Mobs are guaranteed not to spawn on the walls or
ontop of the player, but they sometimes spawn on each
other, which makes the physics go nuts, and they
sometimes end up out of bounds. Once out of bounds,
they sometimes spin like crazy, and sometimes work
their way back in bounds.
- There is no storage of previous maps; they are
randomly generated when you enter a new area. So if you
walk backward, you will notice some historical
discontinuities.
- The current XP bar correctly grows until you level
up, but the 'future' XP bars have a default color of
yellow instead of white; this can make it difficult to
tell what level you are at the moment.
- You can only attack in the four cardinal directions,
even though you can move in eight directions.
- There are a ton of features that we wanted to add,
but did not have time for: your dino changing size over
time; passive & active abilities gained at each level-
up (eg, ranged attacks); a Duke Nukem-style portait
that changes as you take damage; not all music and SFX
are implemented; it is difficult to tell whether your
attacks landed on a mob or not, because they don't have
any visible change when they are hit; the mobs have
sprite sheets that wiggle around as they walk, but only
stack images are implemented for them; and many others.
