Anansi: Chapter 1: A Prototype

The game we want to create is called "Anansi". Anansi is the helicopter from the game Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

ET:QW is a 1st person shooter and what we do has nothing to do with the game itself nor with the creators of the game. The assets we use are created using screenshots of the game. But you can use whatever you prefer, we keep that part generic. You could include Google Maps with a scrolling map of the player's location, so you could defend your home town from an alien invasion.

What we like to find out with our prototype:

• Can we implement a 2D vertically scrolling shoot'em'up with JavaFX?
• How easy is it to create a game? I prefer Rapid Application Development.
• Do we need 3rd party libraries or is JavaFX sufficient?
• How does the game perform with a lot of stuff happening on the screen?
• The amount of time to create the prototype.
• ...

Let's get some answers to these questions.

To be continued ... and keep on coding!