Quick draw

John Clifford Alon, Christofferson Cajes, Gerald Jun Ybañes; College of Computer Studies, Cebu Institute of Technology, Cebu City; October, 2005; Quick Draw

Adviser: Mr. Roel Lauron

Quick Draw

Based on the Wild West gun duels, Quick Draw is simulation of those western style gun fights. This game can be played by one or two players and a demo version were computer players, with artificial intelligence go head-to-head. In single player mode the player duels against three computer opponent with artificial intelligence on three different stages. On each stage the level of the computer opponent increases. The level of the game can be altered from the default setting which is normal to hard and unto insane, the third and highest level.

The player can pause the game by pressing the ?ESC? key on the keyboard. A message box will appear to ask the player to quit or resume the paused game, if the player quits the current game the Duel Screen is played for the player to choose a type of game to play. The duel starts with the position of the clock?s seconds hand is before the 12 mark, player can draw their guns when the clock?s seconds hand is reach the 12 mark after which the players can begin to shoot. A message box appears at the end of a duel showing which player wins or if the duel ends in a draw. Select the rematch option at the message box to restart the game or quit to go back to the Duel Screen.

In the development of quick Draw the researches utilizes Java Programming language which is design to meet the challenges of application development in the context of heterogeneous, network-wide distributed environments. Dominant among these challenges is secure delivery of applications that consume the minimum of system resources, can run on any hardware and software platform, and can be extended dynamically. The Java programming language originated as part of a research project to develop advance software for a wide variety of network devices and embedded systems. The goal was to develop a small, reliable, portable distributed, real-time operating platform. Before Java, C++ was the language of choice. But over the time difficulties encountered with C++ grew to the point where the problems could best be addressed by creating an entirely new language platform.

The most common types of programming in the Java programming language are applets and applications. An applet is a programming that adheres to certain conventions that allow it to run within a Java-enabled browser. However, the Java programming language is not just for writing cute, entertaining applets for the Web. The general-purpose of a high-level Java programming language is also a powerful software platform. Using the API, developers can write many types of programs.

An application is a standalone programs that runs directly on the Java platform. Quick Draw is a standalone program developed in Java Technology, utilizing Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 the current release from sun Microsystems.

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