Creating a Retro Game Over Behavior

Day 19 — Aspiring Game Creator

2D Game Dev: Galaxy Shooter

Retro style opening cutscene.

Objective: Create a Retro Game Over behavior

Pseudo Code:

• When the player death sequence is triggered the game is put into non interactive mode.
• The “Restart Game” text is enabled.
• The “Game Over” text is enabled.
• Change the colors of the “Game Over” text.
• Allow the player to insert a token for a replay (either 1 or L is accepted, L looks like 1).

Below, the code to create the Retro Game over behavior is straightforward.

Coroutine to provide old school GAME OVER flash.

After getting a handle to the text element, a FOR LOOP is used to count to 60, using the modulus operator “%”, if divisible by 2, the text is red, if divisible by 3, the text is blue, otherwise the text is white.

Retro GAME OVER behavior.

Main Menu Retro style