Hungry Birds was originally a culminating project for my CS21b (Introduction to Programming II) course in March 2014. It's essentially the first program I developed and learned to love after a whole year of planning to shift out of Computer Science. As of May 2015, the code remains unedited and is therefore inclusive of rather unfortunate code practices including, as seen in the issues portion of this repository.
I'll get around to fixing everything in the list above when I have time between developing my newer projects and learning other technologies. Stay tuned!
As this is pretty much unmaintained legacy software, it was primarily developed and tested using the BlueJay IDE. I've removed the .class and .ctxt files produced from running javac Main.java in order to reduce the clutter in the repository, so there's no real way of running it without compiling it (for now, anyway).
- Download the file as a zip (There's a button to the right of this page) and unextract it.
- Launch your command prompt and navigate to the
hungry-birdsfolder usingcd. - Compile the class with
javac Main.java. Note that you need to have some kind of JDK installed in order for your command prompt to recognizejavac. - Once compiled, open the
Main.classfile in thehungry-birdsfolder.
Note that only the last step is needed to run the program after doing steps 1-3 at least once.
Hungry Birds was originally supposed to be a two player game played over two computers, however I had difficulty grasping serialization to implement the networking functions as a new programmer when I made this game. With this, there are several mechanics that may not make sense when built as a single player game, as well as several that never made it to this page to begin with.
The main objective of the game is to avoid dying to anything be it eggs, clouds or missiles from your hypothetical enemy. This will further be explained in the instructions below:
- Move the bird forward with the
uparrow key. To move in different directions, use theleft, andrightarrow keys. A yellow block appears in your former spot as soon as you move in any direction- this is your safe spot, where you become immune to everything that could harm you in the game. - Press the
space barto fire missiles that eliminate clouds and hypothetically damage your enemy. - Use the
downarrow key to lay eggs or bombs which can be used to hypothetically kill your opponent. In this implementation, the eggs won't really be used for anything except to kill your own character.
There are also some power-ups in the game, namely green crosses and red hearts. These restore health and spawn more clouds once a player comes into contact with them. The red heart also allows the user to respawn to the safe spot, in order to guarantee his protection from the newly spawned clouds. These aren't as useful in a 1P scenario as they would be in a 2P one.
In short, this game is a very simple implementation of Asteroids with incomplete 2P functionalities.
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Copyright (c) 2013 Camille Diez
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