SpaceConquest : Advanced

Java Project

Space Conquest is a Java project created during our final year of an IT bachelor's degree in University of Bordeaux (FR). It's a strategy game where you are the Ambassador of the red planet and will have to conquest all planets around.

To run this game :

On Linux

java -jar spaceConquest.jar

On Windows

click on spaceConquest.jar

Rules :

To conquest another planet you'll have to send spaceships on it. You also can choose the amount of spaceships sent (in %). To win a game you need to take every planets belonging to users, it is not necessary to take all neutral planets. You cannot send too much spaceships at a time, so when you try to send a lot of spaceships they will be withdrawn from your spaceships and sent periodically in waves if there is no allied spaceships in orbit.

Controls :

• Use the option tab in the main menu to configure the game as you like.
• Use drag and drop from one of your planet to an enemy planet to attack this planet with your spaceships.
• Use drag and drop from one of your planet to another one to send spaceships on this planet.
• Use the slider below your planets to choose which percentage of spaceships will go when sending spaceships.
• Click on a ship to select its squadron.
• CLick and create a rectangle to select multiple squadrons.
• If a squadron is selected (highlighted in white), you can click on a planet to change its destination.
• During a game, use the menu at the left top of the screen to save, restore or exit the game.
• You can select spaceships with a drag and drop movements, it will display a selection area.

Functionalities :

• Planet :
  • Planet are generated with random size, speed production and position.
  • A planet produces spaceships. The number of available spaceships is displayed on the planet.
  • When a planet is attacked, if its available spaceships fall below 0, the attacker become the new owner.
  • A planet can receive allied spaceships, which will be added to its available spaceships.
  • There is a minimal distance between each player's starting planet to balance the game.
  • There is also a minimal distance, smaller, between any planet and a neutral planet.
• Spaceships :
  • There is two different type of spaceship, with different speed, damage and length.
  • Spaceships must be launched from a planet.
  • A spaceships hitting an enemy planet will withdraw one spaceship to the planet's available spaceships.
  • A spaceships arriving on an allied planet will add one spaceship to the planet's available spaceships.
  • A spaceship being part of a selected squadron will be highlighted in white.
  • Selected spaceships can have their target changed.
  • Spaceships automatically follow a path without obstacle when getting from a planet A to a planet B.
  • If a spaceship crash on a enemy planet, an explosion appears.
• AI :
  • It is possible to play against 1 to 4 AI.
  • AI have a simple behaviour, they attack the nearest planet.
  • There is three differents type of AI : Classic, Safe and Aggressive AI. They will send more or less ships depending on their type.
• Pirates :
  • During the game, neutral spaceships will spawn on the border of the screen and attack randomly players and neutral planets.
• Save / Restore :
  • It is possible to save/restore your game using the menu at the top left of the screen during a game.
  • The save is stored in "res/save.ser".
  • It takes some time to save/restore, if your screen freeze just wait a bit.
  • An alert warn you when the program finished saving/restoring your game. You can close it with the "ok" button, it will closes itself automatically 2 seconds later otherwise.
• Options :
  • There is an option tab available in the main menu. Clicking on "Apply" is necessary to save changes.
  • Possibility to choose between 2 to 5 players. (One human and only AI).
  • Possibility to choose between 5 to 20 neutral planets.
  • Possibility to choose the screen size.
  • Possibility to optimize the game.
• Optimization :
  • This mode can be activated if your computer is to slow to run this game.
  • There is no images in this mode.
  • Pathfinder is less precise.
  • There is no collision drawing.

New Functionalities :

• Adding different types of spaceships. (advanced 21/12)
• Making a better selection of spaceships. (advanced 21/12)
• Pirates spaceships
• Explosions when a spaceships hit a planet.
• Making the optimization option relevant, with better graphics and better pathfinding when not activated.
• Ending the game when the human player looses.
• Different spaceships shapes.
• Back to menu.

Known flaws or bugs :

• A planet cannot send ships when allied spaceships are in its orbit, so when allied spaceships fly near the planet, it is impossible to send spaceships.
• There is the same problem with a planet receiving spaceships.

Possible improvements :

• Using color variation combined with sprite for spaceships.
• Sick planets ( non-constant production)
• Choose spaceship's type production

Copyright (c) 2018 Thomas Guesdon & Louis Jolliet