Jave/POO/UML Project
The objective of this project was to remake an old video game called BoulderDash.
Its goal is to pick up a given number of diamonds on the map to open the exit door, allowing us to access the next level.
The character has to dig through the dirt to make his way, but he must be careful not to be touched by an enemy nor crushed by a rock or a diamond which can fall if they're not supported by some dirt beneath them.
Turns out some of the levels happen not to have any diamonds, so the players has to generate some by crushing an enemy with a rock.
We had to create 5 differents levels which can be changed in the the code and are saved in a database.
The model is the central part of the system, it contains all the informations needed for the game: the timer, the score the objective and obviously all the elements which constitute the map. Its sole purpose is to store the data so they can be read and displayed by the view and modified by the controller
The controller represents the game engine, it creates the model as well as the view, and provides a Human-Computer Interface.
It carries out the users movements, awaiting a key pressed and sent to him by the view, then interact with the model to "tell it" what it needs to move, or to do, and finaly, orders the enemies to move and the rocks and diamond to fall.
The view is the display of the game. It have to reads the model. The package view contain only one class (ViewFacade) whcih create a window, display the sprites and update itself when the model change.
The database stores all the information needed to load the level: it contains the height and width of the map as well as the number of diamonds needed to complete the level and of course the map itself as a string a character
The contract makes it possible to link all the other packets between them and thus to make them work together, it is him who regroups all the interfaces of each of the parts, and each part calls upon him if necessary, we defined and finished it first Which allowed us to work on our own to finish this project
The project was a fun challenge to take up. Without too much difficulty we were able to practice java in a fun way.