Perkele Saatana

Game C++ Group

Shoot 'em up where you defend Finland from the Soviet Union. Made at The Game Assembly.

Main Contributions

• Enemies
  • Importing spawners with spline points from JSON-files
  • Calculating splines from points
  • Travelling along splines
  • Enemies can own turrets
    • Turrets can also own turrets
  • Turrets can move in pendulum motions

• Player
  • Changing sprite depending on direction
  • Keyboard and controller input
  • UI for health and score
  • Super shot (which was removed due to game having too many features)
    • Super shot is bigger than normal shot and doesn’t get removed when hitting enemy
    • Hold button to charge, release when fully charged to fire
    • Animation plays when charging
  • Highscore
    • Visible in game and main menu
    • Saved to file and loaded on startup

• Train Boss
  • Multiple weapons and shields, fully data driven
  • Multiple phases with different screen positions and active weapons, fully data driven
  • Side carts with turrets
    • Moving up and down on screen when hitting triggers
    • Respawning if they are dead when down trigger is hit
    • Dying when main train dies