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🚀 Inspiration

We were inspired by Call of Duty, Hotline Miami and the Wild West/ CowBoy theme of the event

🎯 What it does

Gun West is a Multiplayer 1v1 Gun Fight Game Based on Java. The players are confronted in an arena, where they can alternate between 3 guns (Pistol, Shotgun, Sniper). Furthemore, the players can pick up "stars" which gives them a speed boost adding variety and action to the game.

🛠️ How we built it

We built it using Java , utilizing the Socket and Swing librairies.

⚡ Challenges we ran into

Making the game without an engine proved to be an extremely rewarding but difficult task. Every mechanic and gameplay features need to be implemented from scratch (collision, rendering, multiplayer, sound, etc). Furthermore, syncing two clients using a peer to peer connection is a very consuming task.

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finishing the Multiplayer game, and the rounds , gun switching mechanics, menu, music and sound effects for the weapon all under 24 hours makes us very proud and we learned a lot during the process. All of the assets were made in-house, with no usage of websites to obtain assets.

📚 What we learned

How games are made only utilizing the bare minimum, and implementing core mechanics without the use of a game engine. We also made all the assests from scratch, which put us in minimalist conditions, forcing us to create our own TileRenderer, AssetsLoader, Collisions, Multiplayer. We learned how to build a multiplayer game without the use of a game engine