Fall Production Schedule: Revision 2

Code Things to Be Done by the Alpha:

• Crowd Meter
• Grunt and Scientist AI
• Alternate Pinball Controls
• Damage/Power/Health
• Polygon collision boxes
• Breakable Objects
• Front and Back Collision
• Attack/Dodge Mechanic
• Solo Mode Mechanic
• Finished Controls with Steering after Throw

Art Things to Be Done by the Alpha:

• Scientist Placeholders
• Ozzy Damage States
• Breakable Object Placeholders
• Level Start Screen
• Level End Screens (Game Over/Victory with stats)
• First Level Background
  

Week 9 - Wednesday, Nov 4

Art - making 2 kinds of smash-able objects (damage dealing and smashing for the sake of it), finishing the placeholder damage states for Ozzy

Code – Fixed screen scroll/flixel integration, code cleanup, grunt AI planned out, damage/power system integrated. Pool ball style controls readied for testing.

Music – Starting final recording for the first level track. Compose 2nd level track, Compose game over & victory music.

Week 10 - Wednesday, Nov 11

Art – Scientist placeholders done, start first level background.

Code - Crowd meter is implemented, front and back collisions are added. Damage/power system finished off. Testing Begins.Grunt AI integrated. Decide which control scheme is used then add steering to it.

Music - Start final drum and vocal tracking for first level track. Compose 2nd level track. Finish game over & victory music.

Week 11 - Wednesday, Nov 18

Art - First background finished.

Code – Crowd meter is linked to the combo meter, scientists can now decrease the crowd meter when in position. Front/Back collisions polished. Testing results are put into effect. Scientist AI integrated.

Music - Composing 2nd level track. Start Composing Title Screen track.

Week 12 - Wednesday, Dec 2 – Prototype 3 – combo and crowd meter working together, first level song completed and level 1 background completed. Near finished game at this point.

Week 13 - Wednesday, Dec 9

This is when the actual play test starts. Be ready for this.

Art – Anything that does not have a placeholder at this point.

Code – All animation states inserted into the game.

Music - Start final recording title screen track, game over & victory screen tracks.

Week 14 - Wednesday, Dec 16 – Alpha – One finished level.

Mosh Pit Prototype 2

Play the Prototype

This version contains tweaked controls and a working combo system

Testing Feedback:

• Audio feedback to go in a loop instead of getting stuck on the last octave. Add in the UGH and the smack noises to play with it.

• Swapping the score and combo #'s position and making the numbers bigger, especially the score.

• There needs to be giving and recieving damage

• The player needs more things to do and wants to feel more interaction with the hit, the dodge hit buttons need to start coming in.

• Hit animation should have a push off one directly after it so it shows he's gaining power.

• More feedback for hits. If it's strong something more should happen, the character needs to be more expressive and feedback for if you're doing a good job/the combo meter going up/bad job

• We need a team/developer name.

• Don't forget about the end of a level/start of a level screens and what they do/audio/graphics etc.

Next Control Scheme to Try

Pull back on the mouse in the opposite direction of where you want to go. Then an arrow grows in the direction you want to go, the larger the arrow the fast the player goes. like pinball. When he's in motion then you can steer just by moving the mouse. The faster he goes the harder to steer he is.

Click once to stop and if a new movement is entered the player slows down to a stop then takes off again so they don't just keep shooting him places.

New Control Ideas

Things to think about control wise:

Do you even need to hold the mouse button down? Can you just flick without holding the button or click then flick?

Collision Graphics

Do I need separate collision poofs from when you do damage to an enemy and when an enemy does damage to you?


Do I also need a series of collisions for when the player misses an attack or does a stronger attack?


Should I just scale up the one star effect depending on the strength of the attack?

3 sentences of awesome.

Everything is rubber.

Everything is fluid.

We all must destroy.

Combo Timer Graphic

It will be a hand throwing up the horns with the inner red fill draining out of it. Here's a quick sketch \m/

Then have the scoring in the Tony Hawk style with the score x the combo number

Post posting notes: The flames should either be black or not red and should end BEFORE the numbers so they stand out. That and when draining the space should be black not gray or transparent black.