Color Switch

Table of Contents

• Overview
  • Built With
• Instructions
• Features
  • Other Miscellaneous Features
• Demo
• Creators

Overview

The popular game Color Switch, built for desktop.

Built With

• JavaFX
• FXML
• CSS
• Gradle

Instructions

This project uses Gradle to build the files, create executables and run the compiled code. It must be installed on your system.

To install Gradle, please see gradle.org/install.

For development:

• Run: gradle run
• Build (normal JAR): gradle build
• Clean: gradle clean

Features

• Obstacles: We implemented 4 types of obstacles.

Circle	Square
Horizontal Bar	Gears

A new obstacle is dynamically added when the ball collides with a color changer.

• Collision: Collision of the ball with the obstacles, stars and color changers has been detected through a combination of BoundsIntersects and BoundsTransformation.

• Speed Calculation:

  • We use the duration since the last user input to calculate the ball’s new position.
  • Acceleration due to gravity is a constant, and ball’s velocity depends on game score/difficulty.
  • The track shifts down once the ball reaches halfway on the screen.

• Difficulty: The game increases in difficulty as the user collects more points, after a threshold of 5 points.

  • Gears obstacle is introduced, which is relatively more difficult to cross than the other obstacles.
  • The displacement of the ball at every jump also linearly increases as the user collects more points.

• Saving the Game: The game is saved in 2 ways:

  • Serializing the state of the gameplay screen every time the user saves the game.
    • Ball color and position
    • Obstacle types, position and orientation
    • Star values
    • Game score
  • Serializing the instance of ColorSwitch which contains the statistics of the game and the list of saved games.

Other Miscellaneous Features

• Two types of stars
  • One point
  • Three points
• Statistics
  • Total stars collected
  • Highscore
  • No. of games played
  • Total time played
  • No. of revivals
  • No. of games saved
• Instructions
• Settings
• Gameplay Music
• End Game Animation

Demo

Gameplay	More Gameplay
Saved Games	Instructions
Statistics	Settings

Creators

• Ananya Lohani | GitHub
• Mihir Chaturvedi | GitHub