CIS 487/587 Assignment 5
Fall 2007

This assignment will give you the opportunity to experience the entire process implementing your 3D computer game from your design document. You may create any type of game you wish and implement it using the Torque Game Engine. Your game will need to be running in the CIS GAME Lab (239 CIS) during our final exam period (3:30 pm - 6:30 pm on Monday, December 17th). If your game does not run on the existing lab equipment, you are responsible for bringing any additional hardware or software. Undergraduates are required to work with their design team.

You will be expected to turn in a game design document modeled after the examples discussed in class. You will also be expected to turn in a diskette or CD containing the complete listing of your program executable, source code, design document, and all assets required to run your game. If you use code written by someone else in your program, you will need to attribute the source. You will rate the contributions of each of your team members (0=nothing to 5=a lot) and need to list the details of each partner's contribution.

 

Overview

Game Mechanics

  • Overview
  • Camera Position
  • User Interface Design
  • Replaying and Saving
  • Control Summary
  • Game Play Details
  • Cut-Scenes
  • Storytelling
  • Level Summary

Artificial Intelligence

  • Opponent AI
  • Player Detection
  • Motion
  • Path Finding
  • Special Actions
  • Combat
    (attack, evasion, damage)
  • Non-player Characters
  • Puzzles and Traps

Game Elements

  • Items (e.g. data dictionary)
  • Character Bibles

Story Overview

  • Storyboard
  • Background/Plot Summary

Game Progression

  • Setting
  • Introduction
  • Flowchart
  • Level and Scene Details

Lessons Learned

Bibliography

 

In place of an oral presentation, you will be evaluating 4 games during our final exam period using a checklist provided. I would like to post a zipped version of your running game on the course web site along with a copy of your final design document (MS Word preferred). I need you to deliver all this material on a CD (one per team). You can e-mail me your team evaluations and place each team member’s “lessons learned forms” on the CD itself. All work is due at our final exam. Incomplete requests must be made no later than December 17th.

Assigned: 11-26-07
Date due: 12-17-07