ELDEN ROD

The game is a copy of Stick Hero and a homage to 2022 GOTY Elden Ring.

Authors

Suryansh Varshney - suryanshvarshney28@gmail.com

Important Key Terms❗

• Tarnished (equivalent to Stick Hero)
• Rune (equivalent to cherries)
• Rod (equivalent to stick)

How To Run The Game From CMD 👨🏻‍💻

Just running mvn javafx:run should do the trick, it should do all the compiling and running of the program.

Game Mechanics 🎮

There are two main game mechanics:

1. Click and hold the left mouse button to elongate the rod and release the same to stop elongation and drop the rod.
2. While tarnished is moving, you can turn tarnished upside down by holding any keyboard key, releasing which will tarnished to get right side up. (don't rotate tarnished on a pillar, or he will die by hitting his head on the pillar 😢)
3. Grabbing runes increasing both the score and runes counter, and you need 250 runes to revive.

Traverse 8 pillars to reach Boss arena!!!!!

1. Right click to defend
2. Left click to attack

Testing 🧪

For testing, just run mvn verify or mvn test and testing will start.

Design Patterns Used 🫧

We have used 2 design patterns in this project:

1. Singleton 1️⃣

We have used this design pattern for Tarnished Class.
We needed only one instance of this class because only one player
would be playing this game at a time

2. Composite 🏘️

The pillar class consists of a list of its own object which helps
in some methods We have implemented.

Multithreading 🧵

Threading is implemented many times in this project.

1. The constant rod elongation method until mouse key is released is done in a separate thread because the constant looping block in the method was crashing the application if called in the main thread.
2. The movement of tarnished is also done in a separate thread so that it can be parallelised with methods of rune collection.
3. As expected, method of rune collection is also in a separate thread in order to avoid crashing the appication because of the constant looping block.
4. AI for the boss is multithreaded.

And many more.......

Serialization 📩

Class Tarnished is actually serialized automatically when game is exited or Tarnished gets out and is deserialised when we got to menu-page. Moreover, you can save the progress at any time in the game.

GitHub Repository Link 🔗