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1. Archived 3/29/05

3/29/05 2:35pm.

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2. Progress Report due Tuesday 3/29

Hey guys, I'll put together the progress report (it's only a page of text), but I need your feedback on some questions.

1. What has proven to be harder (or easier) than expected with the game?

2. Discuss the implementation challenges faced.

3. Were there aspects that you wanted to build but were unable to do so?

4. What design revisions have been made to the game as a result of what we've learned with the implementation?

3. Development Schedule

Last update 3/27 5:30pm

Before that, updated 3/22 6:00pm

Low Target (March 29, 5 days)

Progress report due.

Graphics

Texture-mapping.
Shelf texture templates
Use templates to create variations.

Sprites Product sprites (pick off shelf textures).
Shoppers Static cones with random distribution
Intro story Sketch page layouts.
Display Find out how to display menus & intro story – thorough research required! Keep an eye for what’s due in a week’s time. Dianna suggests to use xforms.

The following schedules have yet to be updated

Desirable Target I (April 5, 1 week)

Graphics Lighting & material properties.
Movement Include constant gravitational pull from shoppers.
Items

Generated in fixed locations. Represented by block extruding from shelves.
Verne picks up item by colliding into it (the block disappears and the item is struck off the shopping list).

Sprites Verne sprites (back & side views)
Shoppers Move along walls with random choice.
Vampire

Enters when Verne has collected half of the items.
Moves along wall with random directional choice.
1.5 times Verne’s speed.

Level over

Draw the end screens for 3 possible outcomes:

1) If he is caught by the vampire, Verne is dragged back to mansion.
2) If he bites a human, his human rating plummets.
3) If he successfully collects all items and makes it to the check-out without running into any shoppers or the vampire, his human rating sky-rockets.

Sprites Vampire.

Desirable Target II (April 12, 1 week)

Level over Code the relevant triggers to result in the outcomes above.
Vampire Line of sight element in place.
Sprites Shoppers.
Controls Time-dependent control: work in progress.

Alpha Release (April 21, 1 week)

Controls Time-dependent control perfected.
Introduction Finished.
Shopping list Use sprites to keep track of items.

Optional:

Radar Add overhead map for items and vampire warning.
Items Random distribution.
Gravity Time-dependent gravitational pull.

4. Textures

Floor tile. http://students.haverford.edu/spoon/gd/textures/floortile.bmp

Photo texture from Yuna

http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/students/ypark/gameDesign/jam_shelf.bmp

Photo texture from Yuna

http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/students/ypark/gameDesign/wine_shelf.bmp

incomplete shelf texture http://students.haverford.edu/spoon/gd/textures/shelf.bmp

images of different shelves:

-ypark 3/27 2:35pm

5. Supermarket Section Divisions

-yuna 12:25am 3/27

6. Bird-eye-view

we want more realistic map. and here's an example of a real supermarket.

-no walls should be without shelves, there should be as mores shelves than what we have. I'll come with modified map tomorrow. -- 3/23 yuna

7. Screenshots

Normal view

View from above that anables the user to see behind shelves.

Another part of the supermarket

8. Sprites

Verne

Bottle

Packet

style guide

simple strokes or swabs of black/white for high contrast
a few splashes of color here and there, otherwise it gets too cluttered

low contrast for background
high contrast for foreground

vector art doesn't pixellate like mad (can we use vector art in our game? we might be able to bitmap it... we'll see)

9. Menus

1. title page options:

http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/students/ypark/gameDesign/vampire_title1.bmp

http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/students/ypark/gameDesign/vampire_title2.bmp

2. menu look:

http://www.student.brynmawr.edu/students/ypark/gameDesign/menu1.bmp

10. To Do List

OUT OF DATE

Changes in bold.

Layout

3D layout with block shelves

Movement

Arrow keys
Constant gravitational pull of shoppers: include a gravitational component dependent on distance from shopper e.g.
```
VerneX = Left/RightKey + 3/(ShopperX - VerneOldX)^2
```

VerneX = Verne's new X coordinate
Left/RightKey = input from left/right arrow keys
3 is just an integer which will be replaced by time when we make the gravitational pull time-dependent
ShopperX = shopper's X coordinate
VerneOldX = Verne's previous X coordinate

CONTROLS

Time-dependent movement to get rid of the stickiness i.e. each key stroke moves the character 2 steps in the direction indicated, rather than just one, so that Verne doesn't appear stuck after the first keystroke/step. This will be very important particularly with the vampire pursuit.
Diagonals i.e. pressing 2 direction keys at once.

Story

Introduction (4)
End screens (3)

Sprites

Style guide
Verne
Vampire
Shoppers (5-10 sprites/variants)
Products (10)

Graphics

Texture-mapping
Lights, colors and material properties

Items

In fixed locations
Indicated by extruding block
Pick-up = collision detection with block, which then disappears
Random distribution
Shopping list = number of items left (not sprites)

Shoppers

Static
Random distribution
Constant gravitational pull (see Movement, above)
Moving ALONG FIXED PATHS with random directional choice
Gravitational pull increases with time (see Movement, above)

Vampire

Enters at halfway point
Moves with near-random directional choices
Moves at 1.5 times Verne’s speed
Line of sight and pursuit

Radar

Items
Vampire warning

11. Archives

GameDesignArk1 -- As of Feb 3rd, 2005, 6pm.
GameDesignArk2 -- As of Feb 8th, 2005, 2:55pm.
GameDesignArk3 -- As of Feb 11th, 2005, 6:30pm.
GameDesignArk4 -- Old layered development schedule, Feb 14th, 2005, 9am.
ConceptDocument -- As of Feb 20th, 2005, 12:15pm.
ProgressReport1 -- As of Mar 7th, 2005, 4:30pm
DevelopmentSchedule0322 -- As of Mar 27, 2005, 5:30pm

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