Star Trek

Captain's log: Star date 20040401

While circling Uranus looking for Klingons, we experienced turbulence. The 3d moon had just exploded. Before we could investigate, a distress call came in from the NCC Academy. They were under attack. We proceeded at warp-speed but arrived too late. A scan of the campus revealed no intelligent life present, only non-CS majors and other primitive life forms.

Where had all the CS Cadets gone?

Your mission, search the galaxy and find our cadets.

Use the graphics library provided by your author to build a game to allow the Enterprise to boldly go where no one has gone before. To seek out new life forms and most of all rescue our Cadets from the evil forces.

Build a game that:

• displays the Enterprise and allows it to cruise the galaxy (in all directions) using the keyboard,
  • arrow keys = left, right, up and down
  • f = faster, s = slower
• has some kind of randomly flying enemy 'objects' that traverse the star field, these objects uncloak (appear) at random locations on the borders of the screen,
  • ememy objects try to crash into the enterprise, they move toward the enterprise, unless they are taking evasive action (they fly away from a laser blast)
• has the ability to fire lasers
  • spacebar fires the standard laser, it travels 1/4 of the screen before disapating, (uses 0 power units)
  • d = full-power laser shot, travels 1/2 the screen, (uses 3 power units)
  • laser shots kill an inrange enemy even if it is currently off screen
    • when you kill an enemy, you get 20 additional power units
  has Help ('h' key) which, pauses the game and gives a list of the keys that operate the game,
• has speed control, the ability for the enterprise to speedup or slow down
  • f = faster, s = slower
  • the faster you go the more power units you consume, when you are out of power you can pivot but you can't move
• has the ability to control the rate that new enemy objects appear on the screen
  • r = faster, R = slower
  • enemy objects are created somewhere in the galaly at a rate of 1 per X frames
• has scoring:
  • when you kill an enemy object, you get 10 points
  • if an enemy object crashes into you, you lose 50 points
  • if your score goes negative the game is over
• current status (power, time, # of enemy etc.) is displayed in the titlebar.
• has levels of play:
• level 1 plays the game in manual mode, allowing the player to control the speed and rate, the level is won when the player reaches a score of 100 or is lost when the score goes negative
• level 2 plays the game but the r/R keys do noting. Rate keeps increasing as time goes by. The game continues until the invaders inevitably win (negative score). The object of the game is to get to the second round and live as long as possible.
• At the end of the game, a list of the top ten player's names and their times appear.

You may add additional features as you choose, but they must be documented on the help screen.