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Programming

Gunship

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Gunship
Gunship

A game I was making in Unity.

The idea was there is a little gunship in the centre, which you can rotate. Enemies come in from off the screen. Enemies have a number on them which is how many shots they take before they die. Kill enemies to get points and spend points to upgrade your gun and unlock new guns which you can place on the gunship in any position. You take damage when an enemy makes contact with you.

Different patterns of enemies come in each level, forcing you to figure out the optimal angle at which to put each gun to pass the level.

It was going all good but then I got to the stage where I had to add an inventory system with your guns and got stuck.

Chess

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Another Pygame game. Made this while on holiday in the summer of Year 10. Actually restarted this project multiple times because I thought I could improve it’s infrastructure to make the algorithms look less daunting. Unfortunately I discovered that due to the nature of the game of Chess, it is very hard to make a system where the same code can be applied to both the white pieces and black pieces, as one set of pieces always has to do a flipped version of their counterpart. This makes it incredibly difficult to make an expandable system where code can be reused for both black and white pieces.

I didn’t get very far with this project unfortunately and only implemented queening in regards to special chess rules (others being castling, en passant) and also did not implement a way to force a move when in check (although I did figure out how to do this).