Android Game Development: Space Maneuver

Abstract

Space Maneuver android game is a game where the player is an astronaut who’s sent on a mission with his spaceship to collect clean energy sources called “Orbs” for his planet to be used as an alternative power source. The main goal of the player is to collect green orbs while avoiding asteroids until the player ran out of lives and set the highest score. The player spaceship has a weapon used for shooting asteroids. The mechanics of Space Maneuver game involves spaceship selection, map selection, game control, different orbs, and asteroids. The algorithms used in Space Maneuver game: Spaceship motion control, making the spaceship accelerate or slowdown, and random spawning of orbs and asteroids in the game scene. To measure the acceptability the developers conducted an acceptability survey to measure the Space Maneuver game’s acceptability. The developers concluded that the Space Maneuver game is recommended to play in an android device that has accelerometer sensor for the tilting functionality of the game to work; a physics functions was made since the game is physics based; and lastly the game was highly accepted among players. There are some recommendations for the proper implementation and further development of the game, these are as follows: additional spaceship, so that the player have more choices and to make the game more enjoyable and exciting; time as score, to make the game more challenging it is good to include a time in calculating the score.