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Creative Drawing

For this task you can build on the ideas from the house drawing tour. You may also find it useful to read about drawing in SplashKit and playing sound effects in SplashKit for this task.

Create a program that draws a custom scene, picture, or animation using shapes and colors from SplashKit - which sticking with just sequence and data.

  • Make sure to draw at least 3 shapes, or have a few steps in your animation
  • Provide some calculated elements to the scene, that the user can input. Something like the position, size, or speed of a component is sufficient.

This could be a simple image like a car or flower shape, or you could combine text, delays, drawing, and sound effects to create an animation.

For example, the following is a starter/trailer for some scary game. The user would change the speed of the animation by scaling the delay time. Use this for inspiration.

Welcome friend. What is your name: Andrew
Hello Andrew,
What are you most scared of? Spiders
Delay speed scale? [100 to 1000]: 750


You are approaching what looks like a haunted house
(delay - scale by speed scale factor)
(play door creak sound effect - delay scaled)
It is dark in here...
Andrew! (delay then print) Spiders everywhere!
(open window - show black - delay)
(draw scary picture - play scream sound effect - short delay)
(draw black screen - short delay)
(draw scary picture again - short delay)
(draw black screen - short delay)
(draw scary picture again - with "game" logo below and the text "coming soon")

Hopefully that gives you an idea of what you could do here.