Deerstalker

Project Description

What kind of game are you planning to build?

A four person pseudo wrestling game where the players fight amongst each other to knock themselves off the stage. There will be various power up hats that provide players special abilities in their pursuit to be the last player standing.

What are the goals of the game, how do players win, how do they lose?

The goal of the game is to be the last player standing in the arena. The final player that has not been pushed out of the stage is the winner, and the rest of the players are the losers. It is possible for players to draw if players fall off at the same time.

What are the interesting or unique aspects to your game?

The most interesting part of our game is the hats aspect. Each of the hats will have a unique ability that will help the player win. For example, a hat could provide the player with a grappling hook or a hat that allows you to teleport from one location to another.

What are the list of features of your game?

Feature List	Game Ideas	Graphics	Networking
Must have	5 hats 1 stage 4 characters Sound	Bounding box representation of players Different color for each team Camera view to encapsulate all players Lighting Basic Vertex and Fragment Shading Collision Detection Skybox Animated Characters Loader to parse object, animation, textures, etc	Multiple clients in same session Implement Google Protobufs (message classes) Represent the game Event handling (fanning or sequential) State communication Config files Parse inputs/events Support TCP Server/client loops
Would Be Really Nice	Characters have different costumes Controller support Music	Optimized Collision Detection Particle Effects Shadows Physics (i.e. ragdoll) UI to configure game/ activate debug mode	Save state (stats, character names, profile) Improve serialization using Boost
Cool But Only If Ahead of Schedule	More maps (3 stages) More hats (10 hats) Hat Editor When put on a hat, change costume	More detail in the maps (adding extra objects that can crush you) Ability to destroy or change aspect of the stage such as increasing gravity, etc. WebGL integration	Frank Ocean in the server UDP support

Group Management

What are the major roles in your group's management?

For the first part of the quarter we are going to break up into two subteams: Graphics and Network, in order to work on the infrastructure of each. As the project progresses we will restructure into a unified team with separate tasks.

Graphics & Modeling	Network & Game Logic Implementation	Art
Cindy, Tim, Tiffany	Atyansh (AJ), Brian, Eduardo, Victor	Tiffany

How will decisions be made? By leader, consensus?

Decisions will be made by majority. Everyone must vote and come to a decision, you cannot abstain from voting.

How will you communicate? Email, meetings in the lab, discussion board?

One weekly meeting with the entire team.
We will use FB Messenger for quick anecdotes/scheduling meetings and Slack for project development (particularly for integrations).

How will you know when you're off schedule, and how will you deal with schedule slips?

During the weekly meetings we will check our projected timeline to see how we are doing. The timeline will of course update as the project progresses but should remain relatively stable. If we believe as a team that one aspect of the project is behind, we will direct resources to that. Further, if we as individuals fall behind we should raise that in the team meetings to resolve it as soon as possible.

Who will produce the weekly group status reports?

Everyone will submit their weekly report on the Google Drive. Eduardo will collect the weekly reports and update the website accordingly.

Project Development

What tools will you use?

Git ( GitHub )
Xcode
OpenGL
Maya
Visual Studio
Photoshop
Paint Tool SAI
Trello
Google Drive

How will you do testing?

Unit testing
Test game, play with the team members
User testing by letting people outside the team play

How will you do documentation?

GitHub Wiki Pages

Project Schedule

Week	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Milestone	MVP	MVP	Alpha	Alpha	Alpha	Beta	Beta	Beta	GM
Graphics	Skybox Camera Lighting Basic Buffers Model Load Basic Textures Basic Shaders Math Classes Basic Animation	Animation	Bounding Boxes	Bounding Boxes	Shaders Effects (Particles)	UI	Testing	Testing	Stabilization
Networking	Echo Server Multiple Clients	Serialization Parse Events	Profiling Logging	Improve Networking Code
Art	Concept art	Basic character modeling and rigging	Stage	Skybox	Hats Map Objects	Hats Map Objects Start Screen	Hats Map Objects	Finalization	Finalization
Game Engine	Control flow of event handling Event definition Represent game (define the state)	Have events affect server state Set up initial state	basic movement controls Collision	Refine Gameplay Combat	Hat Mechanics	Hat Mechanics	Testing	Testing	Stabilization
Input/Config	Basic Config Files Keyboard/Mouse Integration	Config Template
Music					Basic Audio		More Audio