Month: November 2016

For my final project, I’d like to propose making an interactive game with the skills we’ve learned this semester. I want to base this game off the game children sometimes play at home, where they pretend the floor is lava and they try to jump on furniture to keep off the floor.

The game would be a side-scroller, where you play as a child jumping through their house and avoiding the lava floor. Furniture will be randomly generated and scroll in from the right (there will be different kinds, like sofas, desks, chairs, cabinets… etc.) The longer you survive, the more points you rack up. Grabbing objects and power-ups will also increase your point total, and power-ups can give you speed or jump boosts.

I think this project is within scope, and encapsulates many of the ideas that we’ve learned this semester.

Sketch of what the game’s layout would look like.

What’s in the Shadows?

As you’ve probably guessed, my final project is going to be on shadows! Well, for it to look like shadows, at least.

Here’s a very rough sketch:

I want to create a changing shadow according to movements of the mouse. As the mouse moves around the “item” places in the middle, a shadow will be generated as if the light was cast on the “item” from where the cursor rests.

The additions to the shadow will be made randomly, but I would like them to follow some basic rules. For example, as indicated in the sketch, a closed space will be interpreted as an eye and a protruding shape will have spikes and/or tentacles generated on it. (I’m not sure if this will be too challenging, since the original work was made by “blob detection.”)

I would also like to add the music element to it. Depending on the progress of major part – monster generation – I would like to add various sound effects as different interpretations are made. But regardless, I will have a background music.

At this point, I haven’t thought through how I am going to achieve the visual effect that I intend to achieve. I would very much like to get some suggestions!

For my project, I want to create an interactive character (that I’ll draw the frames for), and animate him to respond to certain typed commands (the goal here being at least 3).

I don’t have the character drawn yet, but I quickly did a skeleton with the key of commands to the left just to give a general idea.

If I typed “Hi” , the character would wave, if I typed “Joke” the character would laugh etc. How I plan to do this is by using conditionals that will load and display certain images based on the typed command (or keys pressed). Think of the walking animation assignment, except instead of walking for the animation and mouse clicks for the interaction, it’d be three different actions based on what you type.

I would like to create an animation of time tunnel.


This is to provide users with the feeling of travelling on a train forward. I would love to share my photos taken in my traveling in US. The photo will emerge as we’ve done in customized pixels. And the time each photo takes to emerge will be scaled to how long it has passed since I took the photo. Flashing points can be added to the background to represent passing time. When user click the mouse, the train can take a turn and a new different timeline will be shown.

Undertale Piano

I propose making an interactive piano project, playing to a selected keyword. The respective chords would play a melody in tandem with the appropriate key presses and indicate which keys on the piano are being pressed. Whether the keys can be played individually by choice remains to be seen. The white keys I could simply map to the number keys, but I would have to put more thought into how to map the black keys, as the keyword “determination” already occupies the three rows of letters on the keyboard.

The melody is inspired from Undertale, a popular indie game released in September 2015. Various characters and visuals will pop up with each key press, and since they’re sprite-animated, I could possibly make helper functions for the sole purpose of drawing the characters on each key press. I may even use sprite sheets to animate the characters during the key presses.

All material and rights of Undertale are reserved to its creator, Toby Fox.