GAM670/DPS905 Project Requirements 20111

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Appointment Schedule

Team Name	Date and Time
	Tuesday January 18 10:00AM
	Tuesday January 18 10:15AM
	Tuesday January 18 10:30AM
	Tuesday January 18 10:45AM
	Tuesday January 18 11:00AM
	Tuesday January 18 11:15AM

Due Dates

Proposed game and team members selected	January 18
Proposal completed and members' roles selected	January 31
Phase 1 completed	February 22
Phase 2 completed - Presentation	March 22
Approval meeting with instructor	March 29
Phase 3 completed - Presentation	April 12-14

Project Requirements

Your game involves a real-time audio-visual-haptic experience in a 3-D world using advanced game programming techniques to improve the performance and the appeal of your game. The user should experience force feedback through some form of controller in response to certain common actions in your game. Each member must contribute their own feature to the game development in a selected area of specialization. Each member should also contribute to the integration of a separate, unrelated feature developed by another team.

Phase 1

The first phase is an informal, written proposal of the features that your team wishes to implement in its final game. Your description should identify the basic aspects of these features as well as the refinements needed to produce a comprehensive implementation. This will require some research on your part, especially in the case of DPS905 students. Your proposal should be documented on the team project page of the course wiki under Proposal. Your proposal should identify the parts of the framework that you expect to modify extensively in your implementation after consultation with your instructor.

Each team member should have their own successfully compiled version of the base code in their own workspace in the branch sub-directory of their team's repository. Branch submission path: svn://zenit.senecac.on.ca/dps901_103rep??/branches/SenecaID/15C

The source code for the starting sample should include the following updates:

• add your own name to the caption for the dialog box
• change the window title to include the name of the team

Merge all of the team members' 15C workspaces back to trunk so that the caption of the dialog box shows all of the names of the team members. See Merging your work back to trunk for detail

The purpose of this first phase of the project is twofold:

• to define your game in both scope and detail
• to enable your instructor to identify some of the details that you will need to handle in implementing the selected features

Your team should decide its own group to individual ratio for grading purposes and post the agreed ratio on its project page.

Your team must arrange a time and date to meet with your instructor to discuss the proposal and to commit the different responsibilities of the team members.

Phase 2

The second phase releases a version of the framework that includes the new features that your team has incorporated. This phase includes a presentation that shows how your new features work within your own game.

Phase 3

The third phase presents your completed game with your team's new features and two new features of other teams incorporated. Your presentation includes a demonstration of how the game plays along with an explanation of the innovative aspects that your team members have implemented. Each team has no more than 20 minutes to showcase its game.

Some Suggested Upgrades to the Framework

The Framework in its final stage consists of 12,000 source lines of code. The Framework is only a starting point and fallback position for the design of your game. There are numerous opportunities to refactor different parts depending upon what your game requires and what your personal interests are. Decisions to focus on certain parts should reflect the areas with which you wish to become more familiar. Listed below are some areas that you should consider in deciding where to devote your energy. If you wish to add items to this list, consult your instructor.

Each team will introduce its own upgrades to the Framework. The nature of these upgrades will vary from team to team. Each team member is responsible for a thorough understanding of at least one particular upgrade.