Countdown Timer (Team 4)
Team 4 is in charge of implementing the countdown feature for the game. The countdown timer is an important feature for the game as it is a loss condition of the game; if the player cannot find the traitor within a given time, game is over and the player will lose. If a player has a time buffer item, the remaining time in the countdown can be increased by a specific amount of time.
Apart from the basic functionality of countdown, the time remaining can be increased if the player has the timer buffer item, and the countdown can be paused and resumed depending on whether the player has paused or resumed the game.
Sprint 2 Update:
The player can now consume the time buffer item (as Team 8 has implemented), and this will correspondingly increase the remaining time, which will be reflected in the countdown timer.
The player can decide to pause and start the game at any time, as we have created pause/resume buttons on the main game screen, which will pause and resume the countdown timer respectively.
We have decided the countdown clock may look something like the above image. The font is pixelated to match the game style. We have not been able to implement the design yet, so it is subject to change. However, the final design should not differ drastically from the image above.
We have implemented the basic functionality of the countdown feature as a component (countdownDisplay.java), and have added the component to the main game screen's UI in MainGameScreen.java.
countdownDisplay.java: https://github.com/UQdeco2800/2022-ext-studio-1/commit/9d85797b7e5b48ca7e87ba35c89ac672e98e7eb5
added component to main game screen: https://github.com/UQdeco2800/2022-ext-studio-1/commit/4c1bd29fe1b26213b2828e8760475dec8009db03