What i've Done this week 10/22

what you have done this week for the project?

At the moment i've been gathering sounds we will be using for our game such as beginning and opening themes and more or less more of the functionality sounds such as the shooting and blowing up sounds. At the moment i've collected around 10 sounds of each and music clips for the game.

where and when you met with your group ?

Our group met last Thursday (10/18) after our lab in room 3300 at 7:30pm. We will meet this Tuesday (10/23) to practice our presentation in the lecture at 3pm.

what you are going to do for next week

I should hopefully be finishing off the soundscape for the game. Well actually on a more reasonable scale more of the sounds that will most likely be in the game. Moreover, i will also use the opportunity of critiqueing the other presentations and hopefully gather anything useful from their presentations as useful feedback for our game and what we can change with it.

Observations from Wednesday's Game Testing

Paper Prototype of Ant Colony

Game Players sayings
"What do We do"
-Troubles with reading and interpreting the instructions
-Unsure if they can go any direction (They can go diagonally on the board)
-Dice also confuse players (need custom made dice)
-Typos on the rules ( change inch to square)
-Obstacles - Game needs to have obstacles to force diagonal play such as rocks or other things to block the player which could be used with relation to the dice rolls
-Needs a starting Zone
-Maybe a card system to spice up the games interest
-Instead of ant lion as the player change the player to an Ant eater so players can be more familiarized with the character

SimAnt

Interesting things that can be used from other games

There are a variety of creatures in SimAnt such as spiders, antlions, caterpillars, pillbugs, birds, and even humans. The spider, caterpillars, and the antlions can all be killed by sufficiently large swarms. Dead spiders and caterpillars will eventually turn into food. They will eventually be replaced. Dead antlions are not replaced.


References
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

Other Game Modules that could be used
Game Maker / XNA / Torque 3D has been a possibility for us

Team Schedule

Wednesday
3pm - 4:30pm

Possible Team online Meeting
Weekly Team Emails to mark progress

Team for 410

Charles Cheung
Andrew Thong
Willie T.

Ant Colony
-RTS strategy game
-Game Module (Torque 2D / WC3)
- 2 players
-Red ants VS Black Ants

Revised Ant Colony Discussion
-Ant Lion - Game Player 1 Player
-Ants - AI
-Use of Sand to shoot at incoming ants
-Power meter as a limiter for how much the ant lion can shoot
-Back Story (kids backyard and the ants are encroaching on the ant lion)
-Levels such as faster incoming ants and spiders to increase difficulty
-Ending (Game Over- you lose or You win and get stepped on by kid from the backyard)