Space Alchemy

Inspiration

We started by brainstorming game ideas that had to do with the theme: Capture. After coming up with a long list of ideas, we picked out a few of the ideas we liked best. One idea was a game where the player is a witch that captures mushroom creatures as potion ingredients, and another idea was to have the player travel through different dimensions until they get home by capturing magical orbs. We felt like these two ideas fit together well, so decided to make a game involving both.

What it does

In this game, you can capture fungus creatures throughout different dimensions to help a witch brew up some potions. Jump around on platforms in every dimension using the arrow keys and teleport to other dimensions via magical orbs. The witch will also reward you with a potion at the end of the game depending on how much supplies you bring back.

How we built it

We started off by brainstorming game ideas and eventually settled on Space Alchemy! We combined images found on the internet along with designs we created ourselves (using Canva & Autodesk Sketchbook) to create graphics for the game. The game was coded using Java inside of Eclipse. After putting everything together, we created Space Alchemy!

Challenges we ran into

One of the group members is on a trip, so they could only work for a portion of the hackathon time
Strange behavior between the witch and the platforms (fixed now)
Images not showing up on one group member’s computer, but showing up fine on the other’s if the images were located in a sub-folder
Toggling into different phases of the game (cutscenes, menu, dimensions, etc.)