April 7, 2024

Agenda

• Project structure
  • Github branch strategy:
    • main branch always stable,
    • dev branch off of main less stable
    • make feature branches off of dev
      • each feature-branch home to one feature
• Game features
  • Bard (just writing what’s being said)
  • 4 player, PvE free-form boss-battle like Dark Souls
    • player uses patterns of keys to set off different abilities and music
  • Player
    • classes (for ex tank, mage, etc. but more musical)
      • Tank: grab attention, take damage
  • Enemy
    • would require some form of intelligence / randomized algorithm
    • at its simplest form, a decision tree with a cooldown
  • Music
    • Genre:
    • sample based or organic?
    • it’ll be important to organize music
  • game starts with base sound track
    • using computer keyboard plays notes / activates a different soundtrack
      • eg. a different drum rhythm
  • each player has their own sound to contribute
    • like choose your weapon, but a sound palette
  • if you are messing up the rhythm, your battle fares worse
  • if audio latency becomes an issue, could do a turn-based cycle of playing music
    • ie. players play one at a time, and each person jams off the previous’ performance
• Game architecture
  • Network
  • Graphics
  • Engine