Status Reports

Week 9

Things to talk about today

• Play test the game excessively
  • Thoughts on camera: too slow/fast, pitch/ first player mode?
  • Thoughts on 30 vs 50 fps
  • Thoughts on number of tentacles at a time
  • Thoughts on lag
  • Thoughts on mobility
  • Thoughts on elevator, remove it?
    • Try to get players across vs. moving monsters to you
• We need the player in! Tuesday 10 am max.
• Need to fix:
  • Start screen
  • Shooter bullets
  • Adding targeting visuals
  • Decrease particles
  • HUD tutorial text for each player
  • Pre-load and re-use tentacles and heads every phase
  • Finalize numbers for damage, health, tentacles, gravity, camera speed, etc.
  • Rage particles need to be slower
• Decide who is doing what for the demo
  • Speaker(s)
  • Scientist
  • Other player (one of us)
  • Coaches (two of us)
  • Audience members: Janet and Willy
• Talk about phase system
  • Smart heads!
• Talk about story at the beginning
  • We got feedback that it's super hard to understand what's going on, so might be a good idea
• Everyone sign off on whatever they get this week by Thursday (play the game and see if it works)
• We're the first to demo!

Overall Status

What are people doing

• Justina
  • Aesthetics and animation for:
    • Player and Head models
    • Tentacle model?

• Michael
  • Sound...all sound xD
  • Rendered arena

• Nathan
  • Aabb Collisions (without collision mode, just the feel)
    • Disclaimer for all known bugs here (like you have to keep moving)
      • Everyone needs to know, but particularly the players and coaches!!
  • Heightmaps for all walls
  • Gravity switches
  • Jumping
  • Wall jumping

• Franklin
  • Player powers for all players
  • Network stability
  • Game over

• Bryan
  • Start Screen with four players
  • Player tutorial text for all players
  • Stats Screen look

• Suman
  • Player mobility for all players
  • Full screen mode
  • Particle systems
    • Lag associated with them
  • Lighting
  • Fog
  • Stats screen correctness with four players

• Haro
  • Collision boxes for head model
    • All walls
    • All gravity configurations
  • Head attacks

Screenshots

Morale

Week 8

Overall Status

• More research done on different collision options
• Corrected player box for gravity!
• Textured most of the arena!
• Added platforms to the arena!
• Fullscreen mode!!!
• MUCH INTEGRATION!
• Harpoon graphics
• Exported heightmaps
• Generated sound effects - 80% done with audio engine!!
• Beautified HUD
• Fixed tentacle animations and textured tentacle
• Targeting system for the players
• Collision boxes for the arena
• Monster Head Logic
• Fireballs!!!
• Cleaned up Dropbox resource folder

What are people doing

Suman

P0
 - Fix wall1.X (randomly turns black)
 - Add crates
 - Fix platforms physics model
 - GUI Optimizations 
P1
 - Fourth player graphics
 - Clean up particle effect for players
P2

Haro

P0
 - Tentacle Placements
 - Player Animations Logic, adding player model 
 - Adding HEAD model to game
 - Head collision boxes 
 - Adding elevator shaft + collision boxes
P1
 - Go through todos and go through warnings
 - look for logic optimizations
 - change one use variables to static or consts
P2

Franklin

P0
 - Network optimizations
 - Infinite Game mode
P1
P2

Bryan

P0
 - Wall transparency!
 - Tentacle Texturing
 - Tentacle Collision boxes
 - Tentacle Angling towards Player
 - Testing Tentacle
 - Probe tentacle animation
P1
 - Lighting on the HUD
 - Start screen player icons
 - Fourth Player
P2

Nathan

P0
 - Hmap collision
 - Bounded Camera
P1
P2

Michael

P0
 - Sound Effects
 - Sound Track/Battle Music
P1
P2

Justina

P0
 - Animated Cyborg model with different capes
   - Walking
   - Idle
   - Death
 - Animated Head model with all animations
   - Idle 
   - Shoot
   - Spike
   - Rage
   - death
   - exit
   - enter
   - probe
P1
 - More player animations
   - Jump
   - Attacking
     - Cyborg charge sword out
     - Shooter/Harpoon aim
     - Stun?
P2
 - More player animations
   - falling
   - victory
 - Shooter model with canon hand animated 
   - Walking
   - Idle
   - Death
   - Shoot aim
P3  
 - Monster arena windows

Screenshots

Morale
Boss Mode ON!

To-Do Thing

Week 7

Overall Status

• All tentacle attacks with animations
• Arena model done!
• Some textures done!
• Sounds integrated! Objects can play their own sounds!
  • Few glitches, work in progress
  • Need to work out channel overlap issues
• Heightmap collision! Collision system finished!! Collision Debugging done!
• Harpoon power with graphics!
• Fog!!
• HEAD MODEL! IT LOOKS AWESOME!!
• Working on player animations

What are people doing

• Nathan: Heightmap collision! Aiming mode! Correcting player box for gravity. Camera not passing through walls.
• Suman: Texturing arena and elevator, special power graphics
• Haro: Collision boxes for arena, monster head powers, add holes to elevator shaft
• Michael: Fixing sound! Sound effects! Exporting heightmaps!
• Justina: Head model, head and cyborg animations, cannon hand model
• Bryan: HUD and tentacle animations
• Franklin: Special powers!

Screenshots

Morale
How the darkness feels..

Our To-Do thing

Week 6

Overall Status

• Idle tentacle collision boxes
• Figured out model animation bug!!!!!!!!!
  • Working beta tentacle model
• Heightmap collision
• Shooter!!!!!!!!!!!! =D with particles!
• Memory/Performance Profiling
• Charge particle effects!!
• New arena model with elevator shaft!!
• Cyborg model done!!!! Almost done textured!!

What are people doing

• Nathan: Sound engine! Heightmap collision!
• Suman, Haro: Texturing the arena! Arena objects (model and add to game)
• Suman: Tentacle particle effects
• Haro: Tentacle attacks
• Michael: Finish arena model, sounds!
• Justina: Finish texturing cyborg, head model, cyborg animations, shooter model (maybe)
• Bryan: Tentacle model, texturing, animations, attacks
• Franklin: Character Select, Scene Select, Shooter Powers, Mechanic Powers, Scientist Powers, Finish Reset

Screenshots

Morale

Week 5

Overall Status

• Heightmap generation/Reading bitmaps
• Lazy follow camera
• Switching gravity
• Feature integration!
• Monster phases
• Cyborg special power
• View collision boxes!
• Particle system
• Snow...?
• Start screen

What are people doing

• Defined in the main page =D

Screenshots

Morale
WE MADE IT SNOW!!

Week 4

Overall Status

• MVP DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Arena!
• First Character!
• One Monster with Many Tentacle(s)!!
• Restart if everyone dies
• Support for multiple collision boxes
• Initial gravity switching
• HUD that shows monster health and your health
• Rotating space texture
• Switching animation states for the player

What are people doing

• Bryan will work on tentacle animations (sweep primarily), collision boxes, Boss AI
• Michael will work on arena textures, platform and object models, sound bank for each object (for sound effects), and generating a height map
• Justina will model a first player, get started on a head model, texture the tentacle model
• Nathan will work on switching gravity!!
• Franklin will work on HUD (Game over, you won!), press A to join, Start to start; Restart when you won!
• Suman is doing arena lighting
• Haro is merging player animation to develop, adding ability to rotate models programatically
• Suman and Haro are doing first character special power (charge), then head phase, then shooting

Screenshots AWESOME!!! MVP!!!

Morale

Week 3

MVP DUE THIS WEEK!!!!

Overall Status

• We have a HUD! With a health bar that changes color!!
• We have a 3rd. person camera
• We have jumping and wall jumping!
• Networking's stable
• Tentacle model with animation!
• Collision detection!
• Simple death logic! (Controls Freeze)
• Built simple box arena out of planes

What are people doing

• Bryan will work on doing the AI for the tentacle boss, and animating/modelling with Justina
• Michael will work on modelling the environment, maybe working on some sound as well
• Justina will model a first player and work on animations
• Nathan will work on switching gravity!!
• Franklin will work on restart logic and monster death logic
  • monster health on HUD, monster dies when health is zero
• Suman and Haro will work on rendering the boss, player attack logic and tentacle collision boxes

Screenshots

Group Morale

Week 2

Overall Status

• We have a real server!!!
• We can have multiple clients (ish)
• We can load models!!!
• Render engine merged!!!
• Object management!
• Audio is working but not merged!!!!!
  • Load files
  • Play files
  • We'll talk about merging
• Justina's got sketches for the 1st and 2nd characters!!!!
• Our loader can only do .x!
  • 3DS 2012 can export to .x? PandaSoft can! So Justina's getting 2012!!
• Good to know size for modelling
• Our arena is made of walls! Start with a box!

What are people doing

• Bryan will work on setting up a scene end to end/loading and rendering models
• Franklin knows what he's doing on networks
• Michael will work on modelling the environment
• Justina will model a tentacle, first player, helping out with graphics/camera
• Nathan will clean up object management, work on collision
• Suman and Haro will do the HUD, fix controller, camera

Screenshots

Group Morale
When me and a coworker are working in the same branch

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Week 1

Overall Status

• Project Spec/Schedule
• Direction/Aesthetics of characters
• Character controls
• Set up a wiki
• Client that can connect to server
• Set up github repository
• Set up dropbox for art
• Finalized meeting time
• Designed initial engine architecture
• Bryan temporarily switched to graphics while Justina's gone
• Franklin video-taping 3D Studio Max for Justina =D
• We decided on a team name! Ninja Coders!!

Group Morale
When me and a coworker are working in the same branch

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