Systems · 2022

The Will Hero Game

A clone of the Will Hero mobile game built in Java and JavaFX, architected around object-oriented design.

Overview

A clone of the popular and exhilarating mobile game Will Hero, built in Java and JavaFX predominantly as an exercise in object-oriented design.

Games are an unusually honest test of OOP: the entity hierarchy either holds up when you add a new enemy type, or it collapses and you rewrite it.

What I built

Object-oriented architecture

Built the game around an OOP entity model, with inheritance and polymorphism carrying the behavior differences between game objects.
JavaFX rendering and game state

Handled rendering, the game loop, and full game-state serialization so a run could be saved and restored.