Week 6: Class Responsibility Collaboration (CRC)

In this week's lecture we looked at Class Responsibility Collaboration (CRC) cards.  First was to look at the objects.  For my game, they are: stage, player (cat), path of dots, sun, start/stop, timer.

I then created a card for each of these and looked at the attributes (variables) and abilities (functions). 

This process raised an interesting question for my game, what moves?  I had to quickly sketch it up to understand the relationship between the moving objects.  Using this, I was able to refine my goal for the next prototype (IP1) - how do the movements work and work together. 

So far, I have:

• the player moves along the path (right) of coloured dots through keyboard inputs 
• the path is longer than the screen so the path has to move as well
• the path moves to the left as the player moves (e.g. it does not move independently, if the player doesn't move, the path doesn't move)
• sun starts near the middle and moves to the end of the path
• how fast the sun moves depends on the level
• the sun's movement is a fixed speed and time
• if the sun reaches the end before the player reaches the sun = game over
• if the sun goes off screen but has not reached end yet, timer informs player of time left

Writing out all the movements, it feels a little complicated.  It might also be confusing to have the sun go off the screen.

Current:
Goal is to reach sun (location) for nap before sun reaches end of path (second location)

Suggested change:
Goal is to reach end of path (location) before sun (day) becomes night (timer)

I am going to ruminate a bit more on this change and discuss it at our next workshop for more feedback.