Anirak

We will use this web page to document our work.

• Refined blue lighting power-up. Active with 'L' or 'K'.

• Your ship able to fire blue lighting with the 'L' key.

• Added explosions.
• Made the enemies progressively harder to kill.

• Bug fixes

• Added a boss at the end of each level.

• Started a new Java Game Tutorial on this website. We'll go carefully day by day and code a Pacman-type game. You can use this tutorial to learn how to write your own Java games.

• Crashing into enemy ships will destroy your ship.
• Changed enemy ships to new design and changed the formation.
• Enemy shots become more accurate over with each level.
• Game can be paused by pressing 'P'.
• Two Player Version added just for fun.

• Anirak is now a REAL GAME!

  It still needs work, but it has progressed from the "demo" stage to playable in only 4 days of work in the evenings.
• There is a title screen with basic instructions.
• The game keeps track of your score, level, sheilds, and lives.
• You are hurt when you are hit.
• You lose your upgrades when you die.

• Changed ship design.
• You can now go up and down with the ship.
• You get an upgraded ship when you pass the level.
• You must now hit the ships more than once to kill them.
• The ships fire back at you. They can hit you but it doesn't hurt yet.
• There is a yellow circle that appears to indicate that you've hit a ship or that you've been hit.

• Put up first version of applet. For now you can move and shoot.
• Added background stars.
• Added Glob Fighter. You can shoot it and it goes back to the start.
• Ok, now there are four different fighters, they are animated, and they fly in formation. When you shoot all of them another wave comes.
• We are discussing making the fighters smallers so they have more room to move.

• Project started. Ugly (for now) web page goes up.
• Named game "Anirak".
• Started designing ships.
• This is your ship.
• This is the Rainbow Fighter. They are worth 600 points each and there will be about 7 per level.
• This is the Glob Fighter. They are worth 500 points each and there will be 6 to 10 per level.
• This is the Bonus Fighter. They are worth 10,000 points each and there will be 3 per level. They will be EXTREMELY hard to kill.
• This is the Twin Boss. If you survive without being killed before the time runs out, you get a 20,000 point bonus. If you kill him before the time runs out, you get a 100,000 point bonus.

• An iTunes Visualization plug-in
• Ultimate Blaster a game written by John while in school. Fly thorugh a 3-D asteroid field and shoot the ships that look a lot like Tie-Fighters.
• Java on the Brain. A great java game site with a variety of games as well as source code.
• Galaga. Here is a Galaga applet that is fun.

Here is a link to a friend's scrapbooking site: