Barnstormer - a retro remake of the 1982 Atari game 'Barnstorming'

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Scott Ferguson

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Feb 5, 2016, 4:44:46 PM2/5/16
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Among the many early Atari games I recently played here,  Barnstorming was one of my favorites.
You control a biplane to avoid windmills and to fly through barns using the up and down arrow keys.
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It did not look too complicated to try making a variation of that game with App Inventor, so I began making assets for the game using screen captures of the original background, biplane, fence, windmill and barn.
I used the GIMP image editor, keyboard Print Screen and Windows snipping tool for this.

After a good days work it was finished, not polished, per se. but working.
In this MITAI version, game play is started by tapping the screen.
The biplane is then moved up and down by dragging a finger anywhere on the screen.
There are multiple levels and the player attempts to storm (fly through) the specified number of barns in the shortest amount of time.

Someone may want to add a high scores feature to this or to add obstacles as higher levels of the origninal game did.

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Happy Inventing!






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