GA WDI Project One Will Cook 2016

Play the game here

This project was about bringing together the skills we had learnt in one individual project.

• Include separate HTML / CSS / JavaScript files
• A working game, built by me, hosted somewhere on the internet
• A link to my hosted working game in the URL section of my Github repo.

• Javascript
• jQuery
• HMTL5
• CSS3
• Heroku
• git

In only having had 2 weeks experience in the technology used it was a big learning curve. This project has taught me lots about how to tackle a web development project.

• Planning, timeline, wireframes, developing gameplay rules, technology to use, code tests, functionality tests and uploading.
• Individually building and testing components. Collision tests, key press control, audio and restricting the movement of the player. Later implementing these into the main game file.
• Staring simple. Adding on game components one at a time. Keeping it simple as I worked towards an MVP. Here is a screenshot of early testing: (Note, the simplification of cars and the bike to coloured boxes).
  

• The need to respond to collisions. This meant a rebuild and adaptation of a similar collision management script. Challenges faced involved the thorugh understanding of the code.
• The avoiding collision of the car elements. Getting the logic to work to get the cars to not drive on top of each other.
• Understanding enough jQuery and Javascript to get the job done.
• Getting css and html to show how I wanted.

The game could be improved in the following ways:

• Convert the Javascript code over to Object-Orientated code.
• Get more code written in jQuery. There must be components of my code that can be written in simpler ways.
• Adding on a second player either playing locally or via the internet.
• Adding on more challenges and levels.
• Making the levels harder through addons such as; potholes, pedestrians, rubbish,roadworks, corners in the road etc...
• Add speed via the peddling key presses(z,x keys).
• Add a route or destination the player has to go to.
• Timer or race against another player through the level.
• Intergration with music, eg intergrate spotify to keep players on the site longer
• Not just a top down view.

• Occassionally a double car will come through there must be a break in my anti-collision for the cars function.