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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:11:30 -0500
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+ <!-- # Use retro to create a game! Refer to the documentation.
+
+# Game Proposal
+# Asteroid Buster -- Nelson Mason -- 11-18-2025
+
+## Team
+# Nelson Mason - individual
+
+### Game overview for:
+
+# Asteroid Buster
+#
+# The game is a further development of the Retro lab game, with
+# the following changes:
+#
+# 1) The "ship" is named Lollipop, and will fire a projectile (a golf ball) at the
+# incoming asteroids.
+# 2) Lollipop will be able to move left and right after firing a projectile;
+# both firing and moving are optional.
+# 3) The projectile will continue to move up the screen, after firing, even after 
+# Lollipop moves left or right.
+# 4) Score will based upon the number of asteroids busted.
+# 5) Lollipop will have an arsenal of golf balls to fire; more golf balls will be added
+# to it's arsenal after an asteroid is busted. Each golf ball fired will subtract from 
+# its arsenal.
+# 6) When Lollipop runs out of golf balls, it has to manuever without an arsenal.
+# Lollipop can still be hit while having an arsenal of golf balls > 0.
+# 7) The game ends when Lollipop is hit by an asteroid.
+# 8) Players take turns. The player with the highest score WINS!
+
+# It's going to look a bit like Retro, at first glance.
+
+# Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys: moves the ship left or right. Up Arrow key: fires a golf ball,
+# from the ship, at an asteroid, straight ahead and up the screen.
+
+
+#### Core mechanics
+
+# 1) An asteroid is trying to hit the ship.
+# 2) The ship can move left or right, optionally, to avoid getting hit by an asteroid.
+# 3) The ship can fire a projectile at an asteroid, optionally, to bust an asteroid,
+# which then disappears.
+# 4) A display of projectiles left in the ship's arsenal.
+# 5) The player's ongoing score, displayed, until the game ends.
+# 6) An ending screen display: GAME OVER! YOUR SCORE IS ___.
+
+
+##### Milestones
+
+# 1) Get the game mechanics set up by re-using most of the Retro lab game code.
+# 2) Remove or alter any methods and attributes from Retro lab according 
+# to Asteroid Buster overview and mechanics.
+# 3) Add methods and attributes based on the Asteroid Buster game overview and mechanics.
+
+
+###### Challenges
+
+# 1) Speed and spawning of asteroids? Similar to Retro?
+# 2) How many projectiles, initially, should the ship have?
+# 3) Speed of a projectile fired by the ship?
+# 4) Replace the Retro algorithm of keeping score with the Asteroid Buster algorithm
+of keeping score.
+# 5) Ending the game without using Ctrl-> C. Displaying the final score. 
+# 6) Keeping track of a player's previous score from game to game.  
+
+
+✅ CHECKPOINT 1
+
+Once you have written your proposal, run mwc submit to upload it. -->
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