Swap game

Swap game is a puzzle-action-platformer where you must overcome a series of challenges using your intelligence and reflexes! This game was made as part of the development subject by 2 students in CITM (UPC). We’ve programmed the game from scratch in C++ and used free artwork.

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Credits

• Programming: Jose Antonio Prieto

  Github profile: https://github.com/peterMcP

• Programming: Jaume Montagut

  Github profile: https://github.com/JaumeMontagut

How to play:

Controller:

• Left joystick: Move
• A: Jump
• B: Shoot a projectile which marks objects
• Left Joystick (holding B): Aim
• X: Swap positions with marked object

Keyboard & Mouse:

• A: Move left
• D: Move right
• Space: Jump
• Mouse left button: Shoot a projectile which marks objects
• Mouse right button: Swap positions with marked object

Innovations:

• Get background animations directly edited in Tiled Map Editor.
• Mechanic that lets you change position with other objects.
• Shoot with mouse.
• Get music from the level from Tiled Map Editor.
• Camera debugger
• Optimization: Things out of the screen aren’t rendered
• Optimization: Each object has a different updateCycle which is used to avoid that all objects’ TimedUpdate() are called at the same time.
• Controller support and specific gameplay mechanic for this type of input.
• Walking enemy: Kills you if you touch it from the sides. You can stand on top of it to solve puzzles.
• Flying enemy: Moves in a random direction if it does’t find a path. Stops if you mark it and lets you stand above it.
• You can swap position with enemies too!
• Get all entities directly from each map xml
• When you swap with an object you also exchange velocities.
• 13 levels!
• Added gui element templates on an xml to easlily create similar elements.
• Loaded elements gui elements from Tiled.

Member contributions

Jose Antonio Prieto

• Flying enemy
• A*
• Save and load state of all entities
• Brofiler
• Added module particles
• Added gamepad hotplug functionality
• Implemented trigger import(from tiled map editor)/ functionality
• Added new object trigger events to entity system
• Added new object door
• Get objects from Tiled xml

Jaume Montagut Guix

• Walking enemy
• A*
• Added module entities (j1Object)
• Incorporation of dt to stabilize movement & animations
• Implemented gamepad and - exclusive gameplay!” -
• New material to play with it, glass
• Implement camera draw limits and its debug functionality
• Designed and built 12 cool levels!
• Multitude of fixes/improvements
• Added GUI slider

License:

GNU GPLv3
-Swap Game- (Provisional name)
Copyright (C) 2018  Jaume Montagut / Jose Antonio Prieto

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

See the license here: https://github.com/JaumeMontagut/CITM_2_Dev_Platformer/blob/master/LICENSE

Find this project’s repository in:

https://github.com/JaumeMontagut/CITM_2_Dev_Platformer