Transcript Senior Design - University of Connecticut

Senior Design
Spring 2010
Milestone 1
General Project Info
• Team Members:
– Lauren Bissett
– Dan Maguire
– Nicholas Woodfield
• Project Goals:
– Expand Spark Engine (our 3D engine)
– Develop a 3D Game that implements SE
Background
• Extension of last semester’s project
• Established a Game Engine with a
prototype game, included:
– 3D Graphics
• Terrain (texture splattering)
• Collision Detection
• Basic model pipeline (integration of external animation
software package)
• Scenegraph (data structure used for efficient updating
and rendering)
– Primitive Artificial Intelligence
– 3D Audio
Background
• Development:
– XNA Environment (C#)
– Pre-existing conventions
• Code:
– GoogleCode repository
– Message board
• Limitations:
– Sky’s the limit!
Goals & Motivation
• Want to further develop:
– 3D Graphics Engine & Content Pipeline
– Build complete, feature-rich, FUN game
• Why?
– Games are fun!
– Challenge: games are hard to make!
– Encompass nearly all fields of CS
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Graphics
Computational Physics
Sound Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Plan Of Action
• Each team member will have
responsibilities based on traditional
areas of game development
– Art & Design
• Designer
• Animator
– Development & Implementation
• Programmer
• Producer
• Tester
Nicholas
Engine Architect
• Primary Responsibilities:
– 3D Engine (Honors Thesis)
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General engine architecture
Animation package
Particle effects
Lighting
– Game Development
• Game architecture
• Integration of game with 3D engine
Nick’s Timeline
Feature
January
February
March
April
Engine
•Lighting
•Normal Mapping
•Content Pipeline
•Animation Research
•General Architecture
•Code Rewrites
•Documentation
•Animation Package
•Particle Effects System
•Specular mapping
•Parallax mapping (?)
•Environmental mapping
•Honors Thesis
•Honors Thesis
Lighting
•Per-pixel implementation
•Further development
•Optimization
•Portability
Particle
Effects
•Basic particle system
•Fire
•Dust
•Etc.
•Game-specific effects using
system
Continue
Game
•Foundation
•More robust collision/physics
•Specific gameplay mechanics
•Stairs
Continue
Lauren
Technical Director
• Primary Responsibilities:
– Art Development (Video)
• Modeling
– Making 3D models
• Rigging
– Creating skeletons to control movement and binding
them to geometric models
• Animation
– Animating the rigged character
• Content design and creation
– Level Design
• Level architecture
• Staging
– Setting up objects and lights in scene
Lauren’s Timeline
Feature
January
February
Design
•Floor plans
•Character design
•Content list
•More floor plans
•Playable character model based on
character design
•Level building
•Prop building
Modeling
Rigging
•Generic skeleton
•Rig generic skeleton
•Tweak rig for playable character
Animation
•Assist in content pipeline
development and testing by
providing custom animations
•Walk cycle
Game
March
April
•Level building
•Prop building
•Level building
•Prop building
•Animate
•Animate
•Lighting
•Staging
•Lighting
•Staging
Dan
Production Engineer
• Primary Responsibilities:
– Everything else
• Gameplay programming
– Simple scenario: if the character is in front of a treasure chest,
we need to write a proximity trigger, coordinate user input
(e.g. user presses ‘A’ button) with scene entity so that it
performs an action and/or plays an animation.
• Artificial Intelligence
– Path finding
– Line of sight
– Decision making
• Sound Design
– Background music
– Sound effects
– Voice acting
Dan’s Timeline
Feature
January
February
March
April
Game
•Puzzle design
•Character design
•Research
•Investigate game architecture
•Gameplay
•Inventory System
•UI
•Gameplay
•Gameplay
AI
•Review algorithms
•Research
•Path finding
•Line of sight
•Decision system
•Path finding
•Line of sight
•Decision system
Audio
•Compile expected effects
•Sound effects
•Background music
•Voice acting
•Sound effects
•Background music
•Voice acting
•Sound effects
•Background music
•Voice acting
Gameplay / Setting
• Style
– Third Person View
– Action-Adventure
• Story
– Egypt in 1918, closing months of WWI
– Band of travelers uncover mysterious
pyramid, the tomb of Egyptian demon
Ammit the Destroyer, devourer of souls
• Harrowing passages, intricate puzzles, perilous traps
• Mummies, demons, other creatures of the underworld
• Invaluable treasures and amazing riches
Any
questions
or
comments
for
me (Dan), Lauren or Nick?