Final Project

Notes

• How to play?
  • Control keys for player 1 : 'a' and 's'
  • Control keys for player 2 : 'f' and 'g'
  • These are just left and right buttons
  • When ready, press spacebar. The dragon will start fire in random time intervals
  • There is no auto fire. Press the keys like crazy to move, please.
• Parts done :
  • Flying dragon and random fire
    • The dragon's movement is guided by some trigonometric functions
    • Each part will have a time lack on the radian
    • Fire time is arbitrary. Every time a fire stream is shot, a new time interval will be generated randomly
  • Rolling floor
    • Just a polygon drift through a very long texture
    • The texture will play continuously thoughout the game
  • Control movement of the two players
    • Players are free to move except with coliding with each other
    • Player who press with higher frequence will determine the resultant movement
    • Therefore, you can push hard on the opponent or suddenly pull away. Some real-time tricks.

Problems and Todo

• Totally short of time......
• Parts not done:
  • Collision detection of fire and players
    • All the objecs are just billboard. Therefore, default collision may be a problem
    • Solution is that make some invisible objects stick on the characters and the fire.
    • Hence, there will be 3D geometry for the system to detect collision
  • How to win or lose in this game?
    • Players are supposed to avoid being hit by the fire. Pushing your opponents into fire is perfectly legal
    • Fight to each other to pick up gold
    • There should be a big overhead arrow point to the position of the next gold nugget
    • Within a time limit, who grap more gold will win
    • Note that a certain amount of gold will fall off if hitting by the fire
  • Gold that run along to road for players to fight for
    • Position of the next gold will be randomly placed
    • It's not like Sonics. Gold come not as often. Therefore, getting the next gold and protect from losing them become more important
    • There should be a big overhead arrow point to the position of the next gold nugget
    • Within a time limit, who grap more gold will win
    • Note that a certain amount of gold will fall off if hitting by the fire
  • Random key assignment
    • Think what if random keys are assigned to players and their hands have to cross each othe....
  • Lots of art work to do
    • Yeah...look how not pretty it is now....
• Why not use .swf file for character animation?
  • Here's a character that I've put lots of time to develop
  • When I used it, the fps drops from around 55 to below 10. Performance problem.
• The game is still too primitive to be playable
• Besides playing this with friends, one can play with his/her left and right hand against each other.....