CSE125 - Group 1

Project Description

Game Type
- A sandbox building game where the player builds and customizes a battle robot to fight other bots.
Game Goals
- The goal of the game is to defeat as many robots as possible within a time limit.
- A robot is defeated if it takes too much damage. After a while the robot will then respawn and the player can re-join the game.
Game Aspects
- Build and customize your own bot from different types of building blocks
- Different battlefields
- Gameplay changes based on parts you pick
Game Features
- Must Have
  - Basic Graphics
  - Basic Models and art
  - Damage System
  - Multiple Cameras
  - Physics Engine
  - Robot Template(s)
- Would Be Really Nice
  - Advanced Graphics/Rendering
  - Advanced Physics
  - Fly System
  - Level of Detail for models
  - Particle Effects/Special Effects/Water Effects
  - Unique Battlefields
- Cool But Only If Ahead Of Schedule
  - AI System
  - Art Details
  - Cosmetic Robot Customization
  - Level Editor
  - Optimize Connection
  - Weather System

Roles
- Everyone will work on everything for management, Democracy!
Decisions
- We will make decisions as a group during our daily meetings. If there is a disagreement or discussion that takes too much time, we will flip a coin or go to an advisor for help.
Communication
- Daily Meetings from 6-9pm
- Facebook Group
- Email
Scheduling
- We will know if we are off schedule based on the development plan linked below.
- At our daily meetings we can decide which tasks have the highest priority and what needs to be changed if we become off-schedule.
Weekly Status Reports
- status reports will be compiled weekly from the daily meetings and reviewed at the beginning of each week.

Roles
- Art/Design:
  - Mona Liu
  - Alex Luong
  - Thomas Zeng
- Gameplay:
  - Ruiqing Qiu
  - Jason Tan
  - Vera Xia
- Graphics:
  - Ruiqing Qiu
  - Mingshan Wang
  - Thomas Zeng
- Networking:
  - Alex Luong
  - Vera Xia
  - Thomas Zeng
- Physics:
  - Jason Tan
  - Ruiqing Qiu
- Testing:
  - Alex Luong
  - Mingshan Wang
- UI/input/controls:
  - Mona LIu
  - Mingshan Wang
  - Vera Xia
- Website:
  - Mona Liu
Tools
- 3DMax
- Blender
- Dropbox
- Github
- Google Drive
- Photoshop
- Visual Studio
Testing
- Unit Tests
- Game Playthroughs
Documentation
- We will do all of our documentation first in google docs, then copied to the website/blog.

High Level
- Week 3 Milestone
  - basic structure
  - basic physics
- Week 5 Milestone
  - basic art
  - simple gameplay with templates
- Week 8 Milestone
  - multiplayer/networking
  - advanced gameplay with custom builds
- Week 10 Milestone
  - advanced art
  - advanced physics/structure
Weekly Level