Contents

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Contents

• Overview
• Major Features
• Major Components
• User Interface
• Gameplay
• Testing
• UML
• Timeline

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Overview

• Chrome Desires
• 3rd Person Shooter
• War of the Mechanical BattleMasters
• Online Multiplayer
• Original Music Score
• Most Explodiest Game of the Year
• Rated T for Teen - Violence
• Requires DirectX 9.0 and Windows

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Major Features

• Single Player
• Multiplayer
• Options and Settings

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Single Player

• Practice Grounds
• Battle Automated Mechs
• Not Story Driven
• Few Consecutive Levels
• Not Main Focus of Game

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Multiplayer

• Main Focus of Game
• Hosting or Joining Hosted Game
• Hosted through IP or LAN
• Join by IP Address
• LAN Hosted Games Appear in a List
• No Automated Mechs
• Time Limit or Kill Limit
• Deathmatch Only

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Major Components

• Game Engine
• System Specific Code
• Resources

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Game Engine

• Engine provided by Vaughan Young
• Came with DirectX book
• Engine modified to suit our game
• Handles
• Rendering
• Networking
• Input/Output
• Audio
• Collision Detection
• Physics
• Script Handling

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System Specific Code

• Player Manager
• Handles all instances of Player Object
• Bullet Manager
• Handles all instances of Bullet for each player
• Weapon
• Owned by Player Objects
• Creates instances of Bullets
• Menu System
• Game Class
• Manager of managers
• Handles all aspects of game

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Resources

• Meshes and Textures
• Sounds Effects and Music
• Scripts
• Text files containing parameters for specific
  in-game objects
• Handled using Multiple Linked Lists
• Engine does not allow multiple instances of same
  resource
• Engine removes instances when completed

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User Interface
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Main Menu
Single Player Mode
Multi-Player Mode
Exit
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Multiplayer Game Menu
Multi-Player Mode
Host
Join
Back
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Character Settings Menu
Character Settings
Player Name
(Insert Player name)
Mech 1
Mech 2
Mech 3
Mech 4
Back
Next
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Host Game Menu
Host Game
Map Selection
Your IP 127.0.0.1
Port (Enter Port)
Back
Play
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Join Game Menu
Join Game
Enter IP(enter IP address)
Back
Join
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In-Game Screenshot
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Gameplay

• Mechs
• Abilities
• Damage Zones
• Weapons
• Melee
• Ranged
• Maps
• Individual Maps
• Structures
• Spawning

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Mechs

• Light
• Fast Speed
• Weak Armor
• Weak Melee
• Medium
• Balanced Armor, Power, and Speed
• Heavy
• Slow
• Heavy Armor
• Powerful Melee

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Mech Abilities

• Stand
• Run
• Strafe (Right or Left)
• Jump
• Crouch
• Crouch Run
• Taunt
• Aiming
• Shooting
• Picking Up Items

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Running Example
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Crouch-Running Example
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Jumping Example
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Taunting Example
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Weapons

• Mech Specific Melee
• Ranged Weapons
• Chain Gun Default
• Rocket Launcher
• Laser
• Mines
• The Shredder
• Energy Beam
• Electromagnetic Stream

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Individual Maps

• Wasteland
• Stadium
• Megatropolis
• Space Station
• Moon Base
• Temple

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Structures

• Varying sizes
• Small houses (Small)
• Skyscrapers (Large)
• Most are Destructable
• Bunkers provide impenetrable protection
• Repair Stations
• Mechs stand on platform
• Repaired by small mechanical robots

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Spawning

• Player Spawn Points
• Maps contain multiple spawn points
• No grace period after spawning
• Each spawn is random
• Weapons Spawn Points
• Vary on each map
• Respawn after set amount of time
• Ammo Spawn Points
• Similar to Weapon SP but with ammo

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UML
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Testing

• Testing
• Done constantly throughout development
• After first version release, major testing phase
  starts
• Set of test cases applied to the game

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Timeline

• Mechs completed March 16
• Levels completed March 20
• Weapons completed March 30
• Beta Version (Multiplayer only) April 2
• Beta Testing Phase Begins April 2
• End Testing Phase April 9
• LAN Party with Tang April 10
• Next Development Phase April 11
• Alpha Version May 5

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Questions, Comments or Suggestions?