Design Meeting Points

9/4/2015
Meetings:

All Team Meeting - 9/4/2015

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All Team Meeting - 9/4/2015

(Versus a Design Team, or Dev Team meeting)

1:50pm - 3:25pm

Attendees

Adam

Alex T.

Alex W.

Aviva

Erik

Jasmine

Joel

Jordan

Kiera

Oland

Shane

Wesley Pesetti

Agenda

Questions

Looking Ahead

Learning the Engine

Other Stuff

Questions

Are we doing a semester/year long project? (Jasmine)

Jordan - Wants to do dolo  for GAM450

Aviva - Doesn’t need GAM450 credit

Sound ppl plan for 1 year

Everyone else will most likely continue to work for 1 year

Do we want to name levels/chapters/stuff? (Aviva)

Could go the way of naming these off of crystals

What are we going to do with the project? (Joel)

See below notes

Looking Ahead

3 Categories of things to give to Jen:

in 1 week

Things Keeping

Changing

Adding

Echo ball enemy

Have a cap so doesn’t crash   :)

Dropping In/Out

Treasure Pit

Ball pit staying in the game (Tech Demo)

All treasure collected throughout game goes into this hole, then players can jump into it at end.

Great reward for beating the level/section/map

Aims for the Game:

Marketable (Joel)

Somewhere between Indie and something

Good quality, content

Learning the Engine

Engine Stuff 101 - Alex W (Candy Alex), Alex T (Nickname pending)

All the F Keys do something

F1 Editor Settings

F2 Always Keep the Mouse in View

F3 Debug Info

F4 Object Editor

F5 Archetype Editor

F6

F7

F8

F9 Doesn’t Do Anything

Editor

Opens the Editor - Ctrl + 9

Zoom in/out - Middle Mouse Wheel

Controls ~ Zero Engine

Component Based

Archetypes

If want to change all enemies of that type then change the archetype

There is a revert to archetype

Txt files have components written in them

If value is in txt file, then it is overwriting the object’s default values

Add Component

Red highlighted ones cannot be added?

Colored squares (other than blue) next to the word is what is selected

Can’t have multiple of one component on it

If want a new component, ask Alex W, and it might exist already

Copy

Make sure to use a new name

Rename didn’t work

Colors

Blue = Floor

Green = Pits

Red = Walls

Click & hold to color

Don’t do straight line pits

Ctrl + Z to Undo, Ctrl + Y to Redo

Will undo painting

Basically infinite

Each time you save, a backup is stored in app. data somewhere

To Transform an Object

1, 2, 3, 4, hot keys to trans, rot, scale, select

Z, X, C (y axis) keys and drag to rotate

WASD

Move the camera

How use IMGUI

Click on Arrows on left of text to expand it and see info related to the title

Complaints go to Alex T.

Can select multiple objects

Ctrl now, maybe become Shift later

Other Stuff

Everyone calls the fireball dude a mage. - Oland

Official Announcements via email - Alex W.

Create wikia accounts - Oland

Send info to Oland so can add people as admins

digipenteamnova@gmail.com

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