1. 3rd Person Shooter Milestone 1

2. Timeplan & Progress table Timeplan Progress table Progress table

3. Coding conventions www.arcticlabs.com/codingstandards 176~ lines. Very thorough.

4. Sound specifications Sent to and approved by sound engineer. Close to 80 different specified sound FX. Link

5. Library research results Yake is a plugin based game engine framework. It comes with plugins for most of the components needed to make a game, such as rendering, physics and audio.

6. Yake details ”Entity system, with pluggable scripting modules for scripting entities' state machines, dynamic events and more” Math classes Rendering plugin: Ogre3D Input plugin: Ogre3D Physics plugins: ODE and Ageia Physx Scripting plugin: Lua Audio plugin: OpenAL GUI plugin: CEGUI

7. AI research results Because enemies in our game are all robots we don’t need any life-like behaviour. We will use conventional game AI techniques. Finite State Machine. Waypoints will be placed in each level to help enemies navigate. Enemies will have a pre-defined field of view. We are going to implement a load balancing mechanism.

8. Some reference material

9. Concept art

10. Flow charts

11. State machines

12. Did we make the MS1 goals? Documentation phase and the Code research phase are both complete. Project Plan Library & AI research documentation FSM & Flow Charts Coding conventions & Sound specs

13. What is next? Game Design Phase: –Concept art, reference material, level design, character design, design document. Code Prototype Phase: –Code testing ex. Physics, animation, shaders, sounds, lights etc. CG Test Phase: –Lowpoly & Placeholders, techtests (ex lightmapping, animations etc) in game engine.

14. Flames?