nnakul / side-scroller

The project is an endless running video game in which an explorer aims at obtaining maximum score by dodging all the intervening obstacles.

ABOUT

The project is an endless running video game in which an explorer aims at obtaining maximum score by dodging all the intervening obstacles. The main module that dictates the entire setting is pygame. The game starts whith a score set to zero and number of lives set to five. As the game progresses, the speed of all the components/objects on the game window increases until it reaches a saturation point. Additional information about the time it takes for the game to reach saturation and the rate at which the speeds of various components increase is mentioned in the code under the class game. Apart from the graphical user interface that enables the user to control the player, there are various menu options to pause/unpause the game, to pause/unpause the background music, to kill the sound effects tied to various activities and objects and to restart or close the game.

CONTROLS

The actions associated with the player are jumping and sliding. A single click on spacebar causes the player to jump and a single click on down-arrow causes the player to slide. Besides the mouse has to be used to navigate through the menu options.

EXPERIENCE

The game can not compete with other such running video games in terms of graphics or responsiveness but it is really fun to watch what all python can achieve in various domains of development. I aimed at building my skillset in some shallow areas of game development to eventually be able to build games or applications those teach/visualize some moderately or extremely complex-to-understand algorithms of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory.

REFERENCES

All the audio clips and sprite images are downloaded from the internet. None of them are self composed. Some of the content was available on Github. Refer to OpenGameArt to choose your preferrable graphics and sound effects for free.