25 September W9 Meeting Minutes

Tuesday September 25th

2:00 - 5:00 pm

All members present
location: Engineering lab

Leaders this week: Suying & Yianni

Next meeting time

• Everyone needs to start learning unity
• Thursday 12pm for presenters this week: Suying, Kevin, Yianni and Raymond.
• Thursday 4-6pm for whole group
• Job reallocation
• Make sure whole team knows how to use Github in Unity
• Preferably start coding

Game Design Decisions

• Decide on number of main characters (ie. if young and old Jessica is going to be two seperate characters on just one).

  • Decision: only one main character, the old Jessica spiritually “possess” the young Jessica.

• Decide the mechanism of the battle between bad NPC and Jessica

  • Decision: Decided to have users type arrow keys in order of the keys appearing on the screen.

• Decide on how bad guy is displayed and indicated on screen

  • Proposed ideas
    • Bad NPC shows aura when Jessica approaches
    • Bad NPC wears a hat or have different characteristics to show they are bad, and aura appears when Jessica approaches
    • Bad NPC always have a small aura, but aura expands when Jessica approaches
    • Fixed aura showing all the time on bad NPC.
  • Decision: follow iv.

• Proposed and decided idea: have different sizes of auras for different NPCs to indicate level of difficulty to defeat it.

  • Smaller the aura, the more difficult it is.

• Decision on game quests

  • Ideas:
    • Have character stand before certain NPCs to gain confidence.
    • RPG style: talk to NPCs in order and collect objects to gain confidence.
    • To indicate the NPC Jessica need to talk to next, have an indicator above that specific NPC (in replacement of a quest log)

• Start setting up Unity with Github.

• Unity 2018 1.2f version

Domain model

• Revised model from previous meetings
• Added in UI manager with associated screens
• Talked to tutor: need to indicate and show important associations on the model