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Week 9 Report

What I did

- Fixed Tentacles and Head to be pre-loaded to avoid the loading lag between phases
- Optimized Tentacles and Head collision boxes when not in use.
- Upgraded Mechanic's hook shot to have unique interaction with tentacles.
- Turned Scientist into Kirby (Borrows other player's powers)
- Scientist now switches models based on currently borrowed power
- Tested game play

What I didn't do

- Texture things.


What I'm doing this week

- Keyboard input?
- Player Animations Logic
- Polish.


What I'm doing next week

- Final Report?

Morale

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Week 8 Report

What I did

  • Implement fireballs for monsters. Pewpew 'n such.
  • Modified targeting system to work for monsters.
  • Considered implementations and powers for scientist class - no solution yet
  • Infinite game mode! Non-stop monster killing fun.

What I'm doing this week

  • Code Cleanup
  • Maybe working with Bryan on Scientist Power
  • Considering different ways of killing 10-15 minutes with this game.

What I'm doing next week

  • Code Cleanup
  • Documentation?

Morale

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Week 7 Report

What I did

  • Redefine powers for each player
  • Reworked player logic for button presses
  • HookShot/GrappleGun for Mechanic Class
  • Limited Bouncing Bullets for Shooter Class

What I'm doing this week

  • Finishing StunGun for Scientist Class
  • Game Balance
  • Player and Monster Aiming System

What I'm doing next week

  • Bug Fixing/Testing
  • Game Balance
  • Integration

Morale

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Week 6 Report

What I did

  • Removed Event Manager.
  • Made a bullet and a power of firing a bigger bullet

What I didn't do

  • Did not finish the HUD, scene select, and character select.
    • Implementation was causing problems, possibly due to improper destructors in some objects.

What I'm doing this week

  • Ray casting for powers
  • Barrier/Platform creation Power
  • Scientist Player
  • Mechanic Player
  • Hookshot Power
  • AOE Stun Power
  • Point Gravity Creation

What I'm doing next week

  • Testing/Bug Fixing
  • Redoing HUD to not rely on destructors.
    • Needs more time than expected due to a need to rework the player initialization logic.
  • More Player Powers


Morale

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Week 5 Report

What I did

  • Managed world events on client and server
    • Reset logic for both victory and loss conditions
  • HUD related world events
    • Start Screen - every player presses start to play
    • "Art" for start screen and other HUD elements
  • Things that are 50% done
    • Reworking the start up and shutdown logic for the server
      • Required for loading screen, player ready screen, player class selection screen, and game over screen
    • Removing the Event Manager because no one else wants to use it.
    • Adding a screen selection option and support for a hard reset.
    • Generalizing the Network Managers

What I'm doing this week

  • Finishing the stuff in the 50% list
  • Creating a Class selection screen

What I'm doing next week

  • Working with the shooter model and shooting mechanics
  • Designing Powers for the other 4 players
  • Elsewhere as needed.

Morale

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Week 4 Report

What I did

  • Created a World Manager and Event Manager
    • Handles restart logic and hopefully future world events
  • Character animation support
  • Debugged various features.

What I didn't do

  • Haven't quite figured out a good way to implement and use the event manager.
  • Haven't figured out how to make the network manager cleaner with a better api

What I'm doing this week

  • HUD related elements
    • Start Screen
    • 2D texture positioning
    • "Art"
  • Reworking Events
    • Have all the classes inherit from an EventHandler Class
  • Reworking Networking
    • Cleaning the networking interface, pushing header elements into the data.
    • Making more network packet types to send messages to the world manager or event manager.

Morale

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Week 3 Report

What I did

  • Networking
    • Manage dropped connections (in case clients crash)
      • Allow for reconnecting the client to the server.
    • Serialization of certain objects (Frames)
  • Networking and Game Logic
    • Work with Nathan to notify clients of their id generated on the server.
  • Configuration Manager
    • Educating the other members of my team about the Configuration Manager.
    • Parsing Point Vectors.
    • Generating a copy of config.ini to config_dev.ini if it doesn't already exist

Notes

  • Reconnecting doesn't work if the client exits in an expected manner.
  • Educating group about config_dev proves to be an interesting challenge.
    • Even the individual who requested the feature seems to have trouble remembering that this exists.


Plan for this week

  • Game Logic
    • Working on restarting the game if everyone dies.
  • Networking
    • Polishing and refactoring if spare time
  • Work with anyone else doing anything else.

What I'm doing next week

  • No idea as of now.

Morale

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Week 2 Report

What I did

  • Created a basic network manager that can send messages from the server to the client
  • Server can communicate with clients via CIN and clients respond back with acks
    • Update: Network and Game Logic is integrated.
  • Updated the Packet type to hold 1024 bytes as data
    • Current assumption is that (de)serialization is going to copy and paste using memcpy and sizeof(class)
  • Tested communication between clients on different lab machines.
  • Created Configuration Manager (uses config.ini)
    • Using CM in a few places.

Notes

  • These should find their way to other parts of the wiki.
  • If you get an error that says it can't find dxd9, go to Properties. Under Configuration Properties, there is a VC++ Directories. In Include and Library Directories, link to the Direct X installation "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK %28June 2010%29\Include" and "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK %28June 2010%29\Library" respectively.
  • Follow this guide to enable a custom shared library for both client and server: MSDN Shared Library Guide

What I'm doing next week

  • Finishing whatever I didn't finish this week.
  • Working with the Engine/Logic team to serialize and deserialize objects

Morale

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Week 1 Report

What I did

  • Worked on Project Spec/Schedule with the team
  • Discussed direction and design of project with the group.

What I'm doing this week

  • Working on networking between a client and server project.
  • Constructing Config File (Likely XML)
  • Creating logging construct to log all messages passed between client and server(w/timestamp).
  • Making setup executable to modify Config file

What I'm doing next week

  • Finishing whatever I didn't finish this week.
  • Working with the Engine/Logic team to serialize and deserialize objects