Night Heist Prototype

Night Heist

Main Menu for Night Heist

Night Heist is a game that I helped create using the Game Maker software. It is a platforming game, where you are a robber who needs to rob a mansion by collecting jewelry scattered all over the levels. There are obstacles that you need to avoid as a player such as penguin cops, dogs, and fireballs shot by the penguin cops. 

The game starts with the introduction to the story and then continues onto the tutorial level.

Tutorial Level

Here in the tutorial level, you are given instructions about the controls of the player and what to avoid in the game. In Night Heist, you have the basic controls of moving left and right with the arrow keys. Pressing the up arrow key allows the player to jump and holding the up arrow key allows the player to jump to the maximum height (which is useful later on). You can press and hold the control (CTRL) key with the left/right arrow keys to have the player sprint. The robber cannot hurt enemies as he is a pacifist, but there is an exception near the end of the game. You have to play the game to know what I mean.

Since my first prototype, I have added many improvements and features. 

Features I added:

• a functional high score table

High Score Table

• added four different endings based on the score of the player when they reach the end of the game

One of the four endings when beating the game

• Adding a pause button

Game Screen when paused

• Adding a Game Over Screen

Game Over Screen

Improvements I made were improving the animation of the player, the jumping of the character, transitioning to the next level more smoothly, and fixing the enemies' movements when moving on a platform.

Although the game has vastly improved since the first prototype I made about a few weeks ago, there are still a few issues with the game such as animation of the dog objects. The dogs, in particular, move in a sliding motion rather than a walking motion and only face the left direction despite moving right. I could fix some of the precise collision checks with the penguin cops since touching them loses a life. Everything else seems to be fine and may just need a little fine tuning to make it look like a real game that you could find in an app store.

Credits

Credits for the game

Click Here for a downloadable version of Night Heist.

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