GUI_ZAO_2021L_PRO2_GR13c_s22120_IntelliJ

Second project for PJWSTK GUI class

First reading, gathering requirements:

• Reverse of Plague Inc. *
• During gameplay the map will show map of the world with selection of countries. *
• There will be at least 10 countries. *
• The map will show different ways to travel between countries like: airlines, buses, trains, cars, cargo *
• At least three different ways of commute must be implemented. *
• There are at least three/two ways of commute between every two different countries. - ???
• The aim of the game is to counter infections of every Person in every Country
• Every Country has different criteria of turning off each of their ways of Commute
• Every criterion must be achievable and modifiable by upgrades bought in the game.
• There must be at least 9 upgrades to buy.
• Upgrades are bought with the points that are gathered by every person healed or prevented from infection.
• Virus starts in one of the countries.
• Ways of virus spreading, speed and effects of spreading are dependent on level of difficulty
• Game ends when everyone is healed, prevented or infected.
• Infections and spreading are independent systems - ???
• Interactions with user must not be via text console.
• Start menu is showed when game opens
• Start menu has three screens: New Game, High Scores & Exit
• When starting "new game" user selects the difficulty level
• After starting new game, new window opens with game map and time starts counting
• Time counter should be on separate thread
• Virus progression should be on separate thread
• The interaction with game interfaces should not be blocked by other processes
• Game window should show score counter, updated in real time
• Game window should show time counter, updated in real time
• Ways of traveling between countries should be visualised with animations visualising their types
• Project should make use of graphic files
• At every time player can leave the game using "Ctrl+Shift+Q" hotkey that moves the game into welcoming screen
• After ending the game player is asked to enter its name for the high score table
• Ranking is counted based on in game time, score and level of difficulty
• Ranking should be persistent between the games
• Ranking window should implement scroll bars
• Program should have exception handling with msgs shown to user
• Ranking should be implemented using JList
• Countries might be implemented as buttons
• Noe every window must be JFrame, smaller, informative windows might be implemented via dialog windows.
• Project should be adhered to some visual standards
• Project can't use WYSIWYG tools for window generating

Second reading, grouping and feature selection

Implementation requirements

• Interactions with user must not be via text console.
• Project should make use of graphic files

Game logic:

• Reverse of Plague Inc.
• The aim of the game is to counter infections of every Person in every Country
• Game ends when everyone is healed, prevented or infected.

Start menu:

• Start menu is showed when game opens
• Start menu has three screens: New Game, High Scores & Exit - ok

Gameplay:

• There will be at least 10 countries.
• At least three different ways of commute must be implemented.
• There are at least three/two ways of commute between every two different countries. - ???
• Every Country has different criteria of turning off each of their ways of Commute
• Every criterion must be achievable and modifiable by upgrades bought in the game.
• There must be at least 9 upgrades to buy.
• Upgrades are bought with the points that are gathered by every person healed or prevented from infection.
• Virus starts in one of the countries.
• Ways of virus spreading, speed and effects of spreading are dependent on level of difficulty
• Infections and spreading are independent systems - ???
• After starting new game, new window opens with game map and time starts counting
• At every time player can leave the game using "Ctrl+Shift+Q" hotkey that ends the game and shows ranking screen

Difficulty level system

• When starting "new game" user selects the difficulty level

Main game map:

• During gameplay the map will show map of the world with selection of countries.
• The map will show different ways to travel between countries like: airlines, buses, trains, cars, cargo
• Time counter should be on separate thread
• Virus progression should be on separate thread
• The interaction with game interfaces should not be blocked by other processes
• Game window should show score counter, updated in real time
• Game window should show time counter, updated in real time
• Ways of traveling between countries should be visualised with animations visualising their types

Map file reader.

• Reads in map from file
• Generates list of countries, their assigned colours and centers for icon displays based on the map.