Jasmine Plott's Game Milestones

by Jasmine Plott

03 Mar 2016

I don’t really have a clear vision for what I would like my game to look like yet. I think that it would be really cool to have a game where I have my turtle move around the screen and eat the “objects” on it. I would like my turtle to grow longer or somehow have these “objects” trail behind them to make a tail, but I’m concerned that this might be too out of my league. I think that what I’ll do first is have the turtle have to move around the different objects on the screen to collect coins (if I can figure out how the image import works I could do food), and if I accomplish my basic milestones, I can add the tail to my turtle.

Necessary Milestones:

  • Allow user to select which character they want
  • Allow character selection to occur by clicking on screen
  • Allow the character to respond to key input for movement
  • Allow the user to win
  • Indicate winning by having the turtle write it on the screen or playing animation
  • Keep track of how much the turtle has “eaten” by displaying the number on the screen

Optional Milestones:

  • Allow the user to start from scratch
  • Add the objects that the turtle has eaten to be added to the chain that follows the turtle

Stretch Milestones:

  • If the turtle runs into its own chain then a lose screen appears
Jasmine Plott is a first year masters student in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. She is a librarian in training and slowly developing her programming skills. Find Jasmine Plott on Twitter, Github, and on the web.