Team: The Nimble Four

• Abdularazak Yusuf
• Quentin Young
• Danstan Kimuli
• Sheila Cartagena

Project Description

• Interface: Text based Console Java Game (Non-GUI)
• Genre: Crime & Adventure

How to Run the game

Project Location

Download the zip file, on the right side of your screen under Releases, go to tags/Release-#/Assets/Air-Marshal_Deployment_#.zip

Run Commands

On the Command line / terminal, type:

• run.cmd - For Windows
• ./run.sh - For Mac

Technology

Java

External Libraries

• JSON.simple
• Prompter
• Console

Special Features

• User is able to interact with objects in a room such as pick them up and drop them in another room
• User is able to save their progress & restore it later on
• Game comes with music playing in the background
• User is able to adjust music options such as pause, stop and play
• Game runs on a timer that is ticking down every second

What it is about

You wake up and are dazzled realising that you are on a plane. As you stare around you start looking in your pockets, in them, you find a badge that reads 'Air Marshal' and a phone. Upon futher inspection, you find an unread message on your phone that is informing you about a murder that is supposed to take place, and it's upon you to gather clues, talk to the passengers and uncover who the criminal is.

General Game Flow

At the start of the game, a user can decide to right away play the game, or they can select Game option 3 which is to view the instructions for details on how to play the game. Once the user selects Game option 1, user starts in the commercial class, in order to perform an action, user is provided with a menu that display the basic actions as shown below:

User is able to enter any of the above keywords to interact with the game such as items which displays a list of the available items in the room

Once an item is picked up, it is added to your inventory and user can view it by typing "inventory"
User is able to enter different rooms and talk to the characters in the game. The clock is always ticking down during the game and once you run out of time, IT'S GAME OVER!

Optimization

In order to reduce on the amount of code complexity we decided as a team to load data directly from .JSON files into our game, this also saves us on the lines of code to write making the game more customizable.