SpaceConquest : Advanced

Java Project

Space Conquest is a Java project created during our final year of an IT bachelor's degree in University of Bordeaux (FR). It's a strategy game where you are the Ambassador of the red planet and will have to conquest all planets around.

To run this game :

On Linux

java -jar spaceConquest.jar

On Windows

click on spaceConquest.jar

Rules :

To conquest another planet you'll have to send spaceships on it. You also can choose the amount of spaceships sent (in %). To win a game you need to take every planets belonging to users, it is not necessary to take all neutral planets. You cannot send too much spaceships at a time, so when you try to send a lot of spaceships they will be withdrawn from your spaceships and sent periodically in waves if there is no allied spaceships in orbit.

Controls :

Use the option tab in the main menu to configure the game as you like.
Use drag and drop from one of your planet to an enemy planet to attack this planet with your spaceships.
Use drag and drop from one of your planet to another one to send spaceships on this planet.
Use the slider below your planets to choose which percentage of spaceships will go when sending spaceships.
Click on a ship to select its squadron.
CLick and create a rectangle to select multiple squadrons.
If a squadron is selected (highlighted in white), you can click on a planet to change its destination.
During a game, use the menu at the left top of the screen to save, restore or exit the game.
You can select spaceships with a drag and drop movements, it will display a selection area.

Functionalities :

Planet :
- Planet are generated with random size, speed production and position.
- A planet produces spaceships. The number of available spaceships is displayed on the planet.
- When a planet is attacked, if its available spaceships fall below 0, the attacker become the new owner.
- A planet can receive allied spaceships, which will be added to its available spaceships.
- There is a minimal distance between each player's starting planet to balance the game.
- There is also a minimal distance, smaller, between any planet and a neutral planet.
Spaceships :
- There is two different type of spaceship, with different speed, damage and length.
- Spaceships must be launched from a planet.
- A spaceships hitting an enemy planet will withdraw one spaceship to the planet's available spaceships.
- A spaceships arriving on an allied planet will add one spaceship to the planet's available spaceships.
- A spaceship being part of a selected squadron will be highlighted in white.
- Selected spaceships can have their target changed.
- Spaceships automatically follow a path without obstacle when getting from a planet A to a planet B.
- If a spaceship crash on a enemy planet, an explosion appears.
AI :
- It is possible to play against 1 to 4 AI.
- AI have a simple behaviour, they attack the nearest planet.
- There is three differents type of AI : Classic, Safe and Aggressive AI. They will send more or less ships depending on their type.
Pirates :
- During the game, neutral spaceships will spawn on the border of the screen and attack randomly players and neutral planets.
Save / Restore :
- It is possible to save/restore your game using the menu at the top left of the screen during a game.
- The save is stored in "res/save.ser".
- It takes some time to save/restore, if your screen freeze just wait a bit.
- An alert warn you when the program finished saving/restoring your game. You can close it with the "ok" button, it will closes itself automatically 2 seconds later otherwise.
Options :
- There is an option tab available in the main menu. Clicking on "Apply" is necessary to save changes.
- Possibility to choose between 2 to 5 players. (One human and only AI).
- Possibility to choose between 5 to 20 neutral planets.
- Possibility to choose the screen size.
- Possibility to optimize the game.
Optimization :
- This mode can be activated if your computer is to slow to run this game.
- There is no images in this mode.
- Pathfinder is less precise.
- There is no collision drawing.

New Functionalities :

Adding different types of spaceships. (advanced 21/12)
Making a better selection of spaceships. (advanced 21/12)
Pirates spaceships
Explosions when a spaceships hit a planet.
Making the optimization option relevant, with better graphics and better pathfinding when not activated.
Ending the game when the human player looses.
Different spaceships shapes.
Back to menu.

Known flaws or bugs :

A planet cannot send ships when allied spaceships are in its orbit, so when allied spaceships fly near the planet, it is impossible to send spaceships.
There is the same problem with a planet receiving spaceships.

Possible improvements :

Using color variation combined with sprite for spaceships.
Sick planets ( non-constant production)
Choose spaceship's type production

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