Mass July 5th Meeting

Topics Discussed

• SVN status
  • currently waiting on response from help desk
  • when we have more details we will post some kind of setup guide
• roadmap
  • discussed fixed time lines
  • only have about 1 month left for this semester
  • should start coding as soon as possible
  • hope to implement a basic asteroids game with networking by end of semester
• language/library
  • we had previously decided on Java
  • decided to stick with Java for its networking libraries
  • graphics will be either lwjgl or standard Java applet libraries
• design specification
  • ships, bullets, asteroids will be designed so they can be tested independently
  • didn't develop spec much further, decided that we would rather start coding
• future meetings
  • Decided that we should have a code jam to get coding started
  • tentatively Thursday July 8th at 3:00 in Burnaby (CSIL lab)
  • agreed that we should research some of the libraries, etc. beforehand.

Links, Tutorials and Notes for Code Jam

This is a list of sites that contain information related to programming using the libraries we have discussed. If you find a good one add it to this list.

• Light Weight Java Game Library: http://www.lwjgl.org/
• pyronet networking library: http://code.google.com/p/pyronet/

General comments

• we should do a code jam to get things going
  • tentatively July 8th
• vector asteroids instead of bitmaps
• program the network code and main game at the same time once the high level network system is designed

Asteroid

• 2-10 players flying around in zero g
  • thrusters
  • pew pew gun
  • random teleport
  • shield with a time limit that regenerates
• when you get to the edge you wrap around
• possible to extend the camera to be large than the screen (fixed to start)
  • camera follows ship and stops at the egde
  • ship warps around to the other side
  • camera teleports too
• basic game: allied mode
  • can't shoot each other but can crash into each other
  • objective is to clear the screen of asteroids