The Reaching Dark

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What is this?

I completely programmed this project from the ground up using the processing language. I made this for an Introductory programming class in which the goal was to create a game using fundimentals of programming such as loops, custom functions, and classes.

Processing

Making a list of features for the game.

This are my actual notes for my planning of the game. I knew the concept was going to be tenticules coming out of the dark. So I broke down into a list of tasks to implement.

Implementing the character.

This part was mostly straight foreward except for the collision, which turned out to be the biggest challenge forthe whole project. During this project I wanted to challenge myself to not look up any tutorials. I feel like sometimes you need to reinvent the wheel in order to understand the wheel. This was also in the context that I had plenty of time to tinker with the code.

This part was mostly straight foreward except for the collision, which turned out to be the biggest challenge forthe whole project. During this project I wanted to challenge myself to not look up any tutorials.

The Tenticules

This part was mostly straight foreward except for the collision, which turned out to be the biggest challenge forthe whole project. During this project I wanted to challenge myself to not look up any tutorials.

Flashlight

Levels

This part was mostly straight foreward except for the collision, which turned out to be the biggest challenge forthe whole project. During this project I wanted to challenge myself to not look up any tutorials.