The Bonus Round

I wrote Concentration as part of a programming test for Smashing Ideas. It is an implementation of the classic memory game where you must match tiles that are flipped over. All images and sounds belong to Smashing Ideas.

Source Code

This game was developed at the 2008 Philly Game Jam over the course of 45 hours.  I developed it using XNA.  The game has the folling rules:
• All ships have a limited amount of energy.  Enemy ships are battleships, and can fire at the player at the cost of some energy.
• The player's ship is a stealth ship and cannot fire, but can 'teleport' and boost it's speed at the cost of energy.  If the player is hit by enemy fire, then the ship looses energy.
• Once a ship looses all energy, the ship is 'destroyed' and dissappears from the screen. 
• The point of the game is to last longer than all enemy battleships in order to be picked up by your army's battlestation.

Controls:
• 'B' teleports to the center (energy depleted)
• 'X' teleports to a random location (energy depleted)
• The Right trigger causes the ship to move forward
• The Left trigger boosts the movement speed (energy depleted)

Credits:
• Code: Tom Bennett, tom -at- thebonusround -dot- net
• Design: Tom Bennett
• Music (excluding sound effects): Seth Boltz
• Sound effects and models taken from the XNA Space War tutorial.

• A video is available for download here (4.4 MB).
• An XNA file can be downloaded here to play the game on any machine with XNA 2.0 installed.

This is a game developed over the course of two weeks for an Experimental Game Design class I took at Drexel University. The game was built using Torque Game Builder. I was the sole programmer, and a fellow classmate did all of the art assets. The purpose of the game is to move objects in the environment to help create a path for the stick figure walking across the plane. We originally intended to have this work with the Wii-mote, but time constraints prevented us from fully testing that feature. Additionally casualties of the short dev time are: gui, scale physics (second level).

• Source and Executables (Windows and OS X)
• Design Document