Mauricio Ramirez

Turbo Space Rocks 12/10/18

A game about shooting big rocks

I made this game by following a tutorial from yoyo games. The tutorial introduced me into the basics of game maker. I ended up liking space rocks so I ended up adding my own improvements to the game like power ups, lifes and bonuses and stuck the word "TURBO" in the title.

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Background

In a my Game Design and Programming class in highschool, all the year 1 students had to follow a tutorialon Game Maker Studio 2. The tutorial was on a game called space rocks and the tutorial was made by yoyo games.

Objective

The goal of the game is to destroy all the astroids, but to win you need to get 10,000 points. The smaller astroids are worth more points than the larger ones since their harder to hit.

Controls

• W or UP arrow

  to accelerate

• A / D or LEFT / RIGHT arrows

  to turn ship

• S / DOWN arrow

  to decelerate and stop

• SPACE

  to shoot

Big Features

• Power Ups

  After I finished everything in the tutorials I added power ups. because I was bored.

• Colorful Feedback

  In Most versions of space rocks, all astroids gave 10 points upon being destroyed, but in my version of space rocks, diffrent astroids give diffrent amounts of points. Making the player have to pay attention to their score to figure out how much each astroid is worth is a lot to ask. So, I added a more obvious way to let the player know how mush each astroid is worth. Which is seizure inducing color flickering number that appears after you destroy an astroid.

• More Astroids

  In the tutorial there was small, medium, and huge astroids. But in my game there is small , medium, large, huge, and massive astroids. The reason is because I turned up the room size to make the window bigger. The bigger window made all the astroids look smaller, so to compensate just I added bigger astroids.