Designing has always been an important parameter for game development. Designing the game board with buzzer wires and balls for different maps using the scene graph’s different renderable nodes could be a wearisome task as handling the renderable nodes is quite difficult.
Setting animation of the moving ball with the changeable speed depending on key presses and setting them in their respective coordinates, are complex jobs.
Progress
We designed a map selection screen, with the game board having balls and wires for three different maps using the scene graph’s different renderable nodes.
We used different scene graph animation nodes to set the animation to move the running ball and built logic using the BrightScript to move the ball in left/right/up/down directions.
Implemented logic in BrightScript to calculate the score based on the minimum time taken for a ball to reach the target hole on the game board.
Result
Completed the smooth ball animation to concentrate on moving the ball without touching an electric wire. There are three maps with diverse complexities and one has to reach the target hole in the least time to beat the best score.
Buzzer Run lovers finally found their most popular game at the Roku Channel Store.
