Homework 2

notes from our first team meeting
First Team Meeting: September 5, 2012

Team Members

• Garret- Programming, knowledgeable of fighting games
• Juan- Programming, math, physics
• Debra- Art, story
• Jacob- Art, story
• Ryan- Music, audio

Setting

• future stuff
• fight scenes are 2D with a “flat background” (Washington DC)
• Pixel art or background 3d?
• background- destroyed DC flying cars and stuff
• Alien Invasion
• Multiple models (Octopi?)

Objective:  

• RPG with fighting game encounters instead of turn based fighting.
• Upgradable elements: kick attack can do more, punch can do more, hadouken, defense
• Upgraded through items, basic fight xp or possibly uniquely for fight style.
• Should appeal to fans of both fighting and rpg games

Rough Idea of Story:

• POTUS Must fight aliens because it’s in the Constitution
• FSM as wise mentor
• Appears in generic adventure fashion, he is wherever you need him. Simple floating model.

Desired Audience:

• Teenagers, kids, and young-age adults (20-28)

Desired experience:

• release stress
• have fun
• enhance the competitiveness

Characters:

• Barack Obama
• Flying Spaghetti Mentor floating in the beginning of the game, telling the story- find him     

           throughout the game to get items/upgrades

• grunt enemies
• a boss

• Character elements can be chosen at beginning (armor)

Presentation:

• Basic third person adventure or isometic rpg view till fighting
• Fights take place in static side view
• Makes sense to reuse 3d character models?

Other Ideas:

• Obama walks around in a suit, but has on armor when it is time to fight
• buildings you can destroy for items
• Inventory system- items that improve defense/attack/in fight speed (double speed, half the damage)

how often do you fight?

• Investigating the use of either time or probability based random encounters.

Tentative meeting in Dirac on Monday


My thoughts:     
     Here is what is going on with our team's game thoughts currently. I am a bit worried about using Obama and FSM in case of legal reasons. Also I would like it if we created original characters, so hopefully that is something our team can work on. 
         In other news, throughout this game designing process I want to master Blender and programming with Python as well as make an interesting/enjoyable game. 
As of right now it seems that my role in this process will be some combination of artist, hand-drawer, model-maker, story writer and hopefully I will be able to learn enough Python to help with coding. I think these will be my main roles but I am excited about all aspects of this process and would gladly be involved in all of it.