WASD - First Update

Today, I’ll be going over the progress of my game development group, WASD. Since the previous semester, my group has lost one member, Riley Donahue, and now consists of only 4 members: Daniel Cortens, Daniel Stepchenko, Sedona Parnham and I (Lindsay Mikula). However, we’re sticking with the same game we created last semester, so it won’t be a big change for us.

              

               So far, we’ve met once last week, and will be meeting again today. We plan to have weekly group meetings so far, but the frequency of these meetings will increase as the semester goes on. Our plan at the moment is to fix up all the little problems with our game that we didn’t have time to fix last semester. These repairs include:

1.      Collision test and response (which is working, but has minor bugs)

2.      Improved acceleration

3.      Addition of interactive menus

4.      Improvement to our skybox

5.      Tweaks to the particle systems to look more visually appealing

6.      Additional levels

7.      Possibly jumping capability

8.      UI elements

9.      More variety in raptors (make more textures)

10.   Loading screen

11.   Placing at the end of the race

12.   Timer

13.   Character selection menu

14.   Walls at the edges of the course to make a clear distinction as to where you can and can’t run

With all of these repairs to make and elements to add before even tackling requirements for this semester, we will have our hands full with work for our game. In addition to all of the above, we will also start having to think about this semester’s additional requirements, but we are not touching on these quite yet.

We also have a few group issues to deal with, such as the fact that we’re all using a different version of Microsoft Visual Studio. We are planning to coordinate better this year and make sure we’re all using the same program so that more issues don’t surface while we are working on our game. We are going to make sure that we’re all on the same page with all aspects of our game thus far, and then we can begin adding elements as necessary. Also, we need to improve on our group communication and meeting; we need to make sure that group members are coming to class when they should and to group meetings when they should so that we can communicate more easily.

Our group is meeting again today, and so hopefully we will sort out any extra issues we may have.