The Ballworld side-scroller game

Specification

(S1) Concept

This is a game like the Mario side-scroller games. Your player moves to the right through a long world, that is, a world with a big x size and a small y size. Objects come towards you and you avoid letting them hit you.

(S2) Appearance

Below is a screen capture of how the game looks.

(S3) Controls

The player uses the Hopper Controls. The idea is to hop over the balls and maybe land on top of them. The Hopper Controls move the player left and right with the Left and Right Arrow keys. The Up Arrow key hops the player up into the air, but continuing to depress the Up key will not produce a continued hopping effect. You need to tap the Up key repeatedly if you want to add a hop to a ...

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