Team Meeting - 7th October 2:20pm

Team Meeting

Present:

Adam, Mike, Jenna, Rhys

Topics:

• Game testing
• White box
• Track Layout
• Dinosaurs for Backgrounds
• Gantt Chart
• Research Trips
• Animation List
• Effect List
• Engine List
• Sound List
• Hazard List
• Asset List
• Prototypes

Game Testing

• Time trial needs to be tested - basic bugs within gameplay
• Adam has some outside sources that are interested in testing Jurassic Kart
• Instructions for usage.  
• Feedback sheet.

White Boxing

• Track layout
• Researching (Science behind behind designing a track)
• Wacky design, appealing

Dinosaurs for Background (Background research needed for each Dino)

• Brachiosaurus - 155.7 - 150.8 Million years ago.

• Argentinosaurus - 100 - 93 Million years ago

• Stegosaurus - 156-140 Million years ago 

• Triceratops - 72 - 65 Million years ago

• Spinosaurus - 95 - 70 Million years ago

• Pteranodon 80 - 75 Million years ago

• Velocirapter - 84 - 80 Million years ago 

• Diplidocus - 155 - 145 Million years ago

• Amargasaurus - 131 - 125 Million years ago

• Pachycephalosaurs - 76 - 65 Million years ago

• Kentrosaurus - 156 - 150 Million years ago

• Iguarnodon - 135 - 125 Million years ago

Research

• Cornwall Karting - To far away
• Cardiff Karting
• Natural History Museum in London
• Dino Books

Animation List

• Idle
• Run
• Walk?
• Main Menu Idle
• Roar
• Rear View (Look behind)
• Turn right/left
• No attacking
• Slide/Skidding
• Fall over
• Get up

Effect List

• Dust Particle
• Water
• Lava?
• Wind - Research wind effects affecting objects within unreal

Engine List

• AI/Advanced AI - Maybe
• Just the one AI to start, if we have enough time more can be created
• Multiplayer/Split screen
• Research into App - Tablet Compatibility
• Control Scheme
• Power ups? (Big maybe)
• Importing character models without skeletons (Research)

Sound List

• Cardiff Museum
• Footsteps
• Trees Rustling 
• Sea water
• Rocks Falling
• Background Music
• Menu Music
• Racing Music - Music fits game - MDK?

Hazard List

• Falling Rocks
• Falling Trees
• Landslides
• Brachiosaurus legs and tails
• F1 Race Stars - Hazards (Look into possible implementation for Jurassic Kart)
• Hazards that Hinder, don't kill. 

Asset List

• Will be created once track has been designed. 

Prototyping from now on will be in engine