Bubble trouble

After implementing our flying_balls application, we had a look at the game "Bubble Trouble", where a player fires on bouncing balls (resp. bubbles). You can find an online version of this game here.

Mitch Koko has published a lot of videos where he is implementing simple versions of several games, e.g. Tetris, Flappy Bird or Mine Sweeper, and also for Bubble Trouble. See a list of all his videos here and the video on Bubble Trouble here.

Mitch said, that the code developed in these videos can be found on his home page, but unfortunately we did not find it. What we found was e.g. a page, where you can download his code for Tetris, but you have to pay for it, even it's only 5$, see here.

But on GitHub we found several repositories where Bubble Trouble was implemented in Flutter according to Mitch's video, e.g. from Irina Vasilescu and a French developer called navalnorth.

We have forked navalnorth's repository into our fdg2425 GitHub account under bubbleTrouble_flutter_navalnorth_forked and in branch gs_ideas, we have implemented several enhancements, e.g.

• put more responsibility into the classes Player, Missile and Ball and thus simplify homepage.dart
• position the elements in the playground on a pixel base by using widget Positioned and not using the alignment property in a Container
• provide an auto-repeater for the buttons to move the player
• as an alternative to buttons, allow to move the player by panning gestures
• to make the game more varied, let the balls have differents sizes and speed, and let big balls split into 2 balls when hit by the missile
• offer a settings page where the user can e.g. select between 2 different layouts (the one from Mitch in pink & grey and the one from Irina in blue & green)
• use a "pixeloid" font for the game title (copied from Irina)
• add some simple animation when the game starts

We have created 3 WebApps to demonstrate what was implemented

• by Irina, see https://fdg2425.github.io/webtest/bubble/irina_branch_fdg2425
• by navalnorth, see https://fdg2425.github.io/webtest/bubble/navalnorth_branch_end_of_mitch_video/
• in our branch gs_ideas, see https://fdg2425.github.io/webtest/bubble/navalnorth_branch_gs_ideas/