MM2 - Game Concept & Roles

Attendance

[x]Aloysius

[x]Edwin

[x]Randy

[x]Zhen Hao

[ ]Mr Tan

Agenda

• Game Concept

• Roles & Duties

• Work Schedule

• Game Engine

Next Deliverable (22 Jul 17 Night on Discord)

• Game Concept / Pitch - Aloysius (Initial Draft)

• Skeleton Website - Zhen Hao

• Engine + Networking - Edwin

• Chunk Deletion (Gunbound / Worm) - Randy

**Note: 22 Jul meeting has been rescheduled to 24 July 17

Summary

Action By : All

• Game Engine - Undecided

• Game Concept – Undecided

• TD + Hero Defense (Edwin)

• Summoners Arena (Magic the Gathering)

• Weird Arena (Poy Poy 2)

• Physics Shooter (Gunbound / Worms)

• Roles:

• Aloysius (Leader)

• Game Designer

• Assistant Programmer

• Edwin

• Level Designer

• Lead Programmer

• Randy

• Assistant Programmer

• Resource Manager

• Zhen Hao (Kai)

• Lead Artist

• UI Designer

• Sound Designer

• Website Designer

• Secretary

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Game Engine

UE

• Horrible blueprint mapping

• Better for Networking

Unity

• More versatility

• Purely scripts

• Networking support not as good

Conclusion

Test and decide on Saturday (22 July 2017)

Multiplayer

• Can try using multiplayer using steam connection

Game Concept

• Single Device / Multi device: Undecided

• Development Method: SCRUM

• Player Interactions: Undecided (Team V Team / PVE / FFA PVP)

• No. of Players: 2 to 4

• General Game Pillars:

• Simple

• Short and repayable gameplay (<10mins)

• Comical

• Characters Concept:

• Generic

• DPS

• Support

• Defence

• Game References:

• Fat Princes

• C&C4

• PoyPoy2

• Team Buddies

• Hero Defence (WC3 Mods)

• Orc Must Die

• Little Fighter

• Art References

• Bishi Bashi (2D)

• Tiny Guardians (2D)

• Team Buddies (3D)

• Poy Poy 2 (3D)

Game 1 – TD + Hero Defence

• Camera: Top Down (if 1 device) or FPS/3rd Person (Orc Must Die)

• Gameplay:

• Player controls 1 hero

• Each player has their own base

• Goal is to destroy the other player’s base

• Spawn minions by fighting for spawn points around map (Fixed points but random activation)

• Increase number of activated points as battle drags on

• Only Minions can do damage to the other player’s base

• Heroes only can only do damage to minions and other heroes

• Minions drop resource

• Players can use resource build walls to reroute opponent’s minions (Like those open area TD)

• Decision Making:

• Players to choose to support / destroy minions vs Getting point

• Issue:

• Balancing

• Game might end up being decided early.

• Very hard to recover from earlier damage to castle during late game as players will tend to ignore fighting one another and concentrate on capturing points

Game 2 – Summoners Arena (Magic The Gathering)

• Camera: Top Down

• Gameplay:

• Fixed Set of summoners with different abilities and summons

• Players split into 2 sides. (1v1 or 2v2)

• Players can summon up to a limited number of summons

• Govern by Mana that can be stolen from opposing players

• Goal is to destroy the opponent

• Notes:

• No further discussion

Game 3 – Weird Arena (Poy Poy 2)

• Camera Top Down

• Gameplay

• Select character with unique ability

• FFA fight in different arena stages with different obstacles

• Actions are as weird as possible

• Design pillar is mainly comedy

• Objective is to be the last one standing

• Notes:

• No further Discussion

Game 4 – Physics Shooter Arena (GunBound / Worms)

• Camera: Side Scroll

• Gameplay

• Pick a character or a set of characters

• Attacks are projectile based

• Destroyable terrain

• Mainly FFA

• Objective is to be the last one / team standing

• Notes:

• Need to find out how to destroy terrain