Game Pitch:
By James Sheets
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Evil aliens have picked up our radio
frequencies, and become infatuated with our
celebrities. They’ve decided to invade Earth
to kidnap Tom Cruise!
Will Smith – ace fighter pilot – is the last our
last, best hope at another Mission Impossible
sequel.
Simply, funny.
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2-D, top-down shooter
Player controls a F-16 falcon jet fighter
(Will Smith)
Each level, player must destroy the enemy ship
before being shot down or running out of fuel
Player Ship
 1-hit to be destroyed
 3 Lives
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Enemy Ship
 Only 1 model
 1-hit to be destroyed
 Becomes harder as level increases
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Space to start game
 Intro screen
 Mission debriefings
 Game Completed / Game Over
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WASD keys to move ship
Space bar to shoot
 You can fire once a second
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Esc to quit game
Levels are all identical, except the enemy AI becomes harder
 2nd level: enemy fires faster
 3rd level: enemy moves faster
 4th level: enemy ship becomes smaller
 Hard-Capped Level Limit
 4 levels to make it quick for people to complete
 Level-limit could easily be changed by adjusting the code;
 Congratulation screen if you beat the game
 Mission debriefings between levels
 Show total score and score breakdown
 Announce enemy ship AI change
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One of the main points of playing is to attain
a high score
 100 points for completing a level
 ½ point for every point of fuel remaining when
the level ends
 1 point for every percent of accuracy (so, 100
points max if you kill the ship with one shot)
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Simple AI
 Move in a direction
 Shoot randomly
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Enemy difficulty increases with level
 Each level, the alien ship will increase in 1 area:
▪ Ship size decreases
▪ Ship fires more frequently
▪ Ship moves faster
▪ Ship requires more hits to be killed
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MIDI’s of Will Smith songs
 Start screen: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
themesong
 Gameplay: “Getting’ Jiggy with it”
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Weapons fire sounds
 Taken from “Tricks of the Windows Game
Programming Guru’s” CD.
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Free-use F-16 models
Free-use alien ship models
Background scrolls to simulate movement
 Stock aerial photos for the background
Screenshot
This is actually a
mock-up as a
viewable
screenshot
couldn’t be taken
from the game.
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500mhz Processor
128MB Ram
32MB Video Card
Windows XP/Vista
DirectX 7.0
Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 6.0
Paint.net
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Show Start Screen
Start Game
 Get Level
 Generate Alien Ship Difficulty
 Loop
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Display Score/Lives/Time/Background
Move Alien Ship
Detect Player Movement
Move Any Lasers; Detect Hits
 Change/Restart Level
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Close Game
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Classes and Inheritance used for all game objects (player ship, enemy ship) and game states
Game runs in a loop, constantly checking if the game’s state has change
 Player at a display screen
 Enter pressed; start game
 Move enemy ship (pick a new destination if needed)
 Have enemy ship fire (if it’s allowed)
 See if player is trying to move
▪ Move in a direction depending on key pressed
 See if player is trying to fire (if it’s allowed)
 Check if game has ended
▪ Player destroyed enemy
▪ Show score, move to next level
▪ Enemy destroyed player
▪ Subtract life, restart level
▪ Player out of fuel
▪ Subtract life, restart level
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This game won’t be distributed or sold
commercially. I should be well within my
rights (moral/legal) to use this material as a
showcase for school project.
The name of the title character could be
changed easily to remove any Likeness Rights
issues.