Knowledge Siege

A Java Swing Educational Game for COMP 132

Knowledge Siege is a 2D educational Java game built with Java Swing, OOP principles, and file handling.
Your goal is to survive 3 levels of academic “Knowledge Keepers”—Section Leaders, TAs, and Professors—while collecting information to gain points and avoiding harmful questions that reduce health.

This project was developed as part of COMP 132: Advanced Programming, demonstrating mastery of GUI programming, inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, and game loop logic.

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🚀 Features

✔ Login & User Management

• Register new users
• Login with existing accounts
• Users select a profile image for gameplay

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🎮 Gameplay Overview

Player Controls

• Move left and right using keyboard arrows

Enemies (Knowledge Keepers)

• Section Leaders (SLs)
• Teaching Assistants (TAs)
• Professors
• Move horizontally at different speeds
• Shoot ShotBoxes:
  • ❓ Questions → deal damage
  • 💡 Information → award points
• Text content of each shot is displayed on a side panel

Levels

Level	Enemies	Required Score	Difficulty
1	4 SLs	50	Low
2	Remaining SLs + 2 TAs	100	Medium
3	Remaining TAs + 2 Professors	150	High

ShotBoxes

• SL: slow shots
• TA: medium shots
• Professor: fast shots
• Colliding with ❓ = health loss
• Colliding with 💡 = score gain

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📁 File Handling

The game loads educational content from two files:

• questions.txt
• info.txt

Each file contains 30+ entries, split by difficulty:

• 10 for SLs
• 10 for TAs
• 10 for Professors

Missing files trigger custom exceptions + GUI warnings.

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🧠 Object-Oriented Structure

The project uses:

• Inheritance (SL → TA → Professor hierarchy)
• Abstract classes & interfaces
• Java Collections
• Encapsulation of drawing logic
• Separation of logic and GUI (MVC style)

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📊 Score System

• Collect 💡 information to earn points
• Take damage from ❓ questions
• Scoreboard:
  • Sorted by score (descending)
  • Same user → Game1, Game2, Game3…

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📝 Logging

A detailed log file is generated containing:

• Game start
• Collisions (info collected or damage taken)
• Score updates
• “User is unable to move.” events
• Level transitions
• Game Over / Victory

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🖥 GUI (Java Swing)

The GUI is created using:

• JPanel
• JButton
• JLabel
• JComboBox
• JOptionPane
• javax.swing.Timer for:
  • Movement
  • Collision checking
  • Animation

Custom images are used for characters.

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🧪 Demo Requirements (All Supported)

Initial Setup

• New user registration
• Login system
• GUI scoreboard

Gameplay

• Player movement
• Keeper behaviors (SL, TA, Professor)
• ShotBox attacks and text display
• Score/health updates
• Level transitions
• Game Over / Victory screens

Error Handling

• Detects missing / empty content files
• Prevents out-of-bound movement
• Shows meaningful GUI errors

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