Commencing development on my prototype, I began by creating a custom sprite class for the player. This allows me to give the player it’s own properties and methods and will greatly improve the readability of my code.

Next, I implemented movement controls for the player; I opted for full mouse control for my movement, having the player track and follow the crosshair.

I then created another sprite class for the ghost, with movement logic that instructs the ghost to move in the direction of the player at all times. Originally I was hoping to implement pathfinding, however decided that would be too much work for the scope of this project.

Finally for this week, I decided to create all the logic for spawning the ghosts in waves. I created a function that would spawn a mathematically determined number of ghosts from multiple corners of the level; the function is called by a timer event that is initialized in the game’s create function, looping once per minute.