New enemy design, path-finding system for mom NPC and iterate design of playable characters with more sprites (Team 1)

[ChanghaoXi]

Description

Task: Iterate character design for the third time with much more new sprites added to the basic set of sprites for characters, creation of a new enemy cat, implementation of new animations for characters and enemy cat, implementation of pathfinding system, Junit tests, debugging and UML diagramming.

Feature: New enemies design, pathfinding system implementation and the 3rd iteration of character design.

Similar to the previous sprint, Team 1 will be responsible for the following categories of tasks:

• Iterating design of characters: User testing sessions will be conducted use the user testing plan created from the previous sprint, based on the feedback gathered from user testing sessions, the design of characters will be iterated from the third round, which will lead to further update on the basic set of sprites for characters and playable characters and NPCs developed from previous sprints. Additionally, the basic set of sprites will be expanded to include more sprites for interaction with interactable objects, dancing animations on the main screen and animations for switching characters (more details are be listed below).

• Design and creation of a new enemy: Sprites for one new enemy (cat_00) aside from the NPC mom will be designed and created, a basic set of sprites for enemies will be designed and developed first, which will have similar settings as basic sprites for characters, with isometric sprites included. On top of that, the enemy cat will be created separately. The design of enemies will also follow the iterative design process, which means they will be tested in the user testing sessions and iterate in the future sprint too.

• Animations: New movement animations for isometric sprites made in the previous sprint will be implemented in this sprint, this will be the priority of this sprint. Furthermore, animations for switching characters will also be implemented.

• Pathfinding system: Pathfinding system will be implemented collaboratively with team 2. This is an AI for the NPC mom, which will generate a path from her current location to an interactable object such as the bed and TV. Once a path has been generated, Mom will start to head to the destination. If Mom has the playable character in her sight (within a certain radius of her), she will start to chase the player until she caught them, or they are no longer visible in her sight. At this point, Mom will continue to move to the pre-set endpoint of the route (This is still under development by the end of sprint 3, it will be finished in the last sprint.)

• Testing, debugging and UML diagramming: More Junit tests will be written as new classes/functions are implemented, debugging of the current version of game engine based on sonarcloud will happen concurrently to improve reliability of the game “Retroactive”. Besides, related UML diagrams will also be updated based on progress made in this sprint.

In terms of the update to the basic set of sprites for characters, the following sprites will be created and tested to improve the interaction with interactable objects and for new animations, which will both lead to a better user experience of game playing, including:

• Breathing with hand/arm moving when standing still;

• Raising a hand when interacting with interactable objects;

• Change the colour of outlines to lightblue when the character is receiving positive impacts from the energy drink;

• Sprites for hand waving animations in the main screen when using the switch characters button.

Please check the wiki pages listed under the documentation section for more information. Thank you!

Dependencies

• Implementation of animations for isometric views will depend on animations implemented in sprint 1 Design Textures for NPCs and the Character (Team 1) #4.
• Implementation of pathfinding functions for the NPC mom, which will be finished collaboratively with Team 2 Pathfinding AI for Enemies and NPC's #90 .
• Updating the basic set of sprites for characters will depend on work from the previous sprint Sprites creation for current characters & NPC, new character plus the scoring system implementation (Team 1) #37.
• Sprites creation regarding Interaction with interactable objects will depend on Implement all Interactable Components (Team 2) #38

Tasks

• Modify and create UML Diagrams, fix bugs and create new entity #112 .
• Alter the design of the male playable character with the new set of basic sprites and do the atlas for all character #114 .
• Expand the basic set of character sprites with more actions & iterating sprites for the male playable character boy_01 (Team1) #115 .
• Enemy Sprites  #116 .

Milestones

• Step 1 [Sept. 26]: Update the wiki page of UML diagrams, combine all separate class diagrams into one, combine all sequence diagrams of methods that are under the same class together.

• Step 2 [Sept. 26]: Implement animations for isometric sprites created in the previous sprint.

• Step 3 [Oct. 2]: Update the basic set of sprites for characters with new sprites for interaction with objects, new animations etc.

• Step 4 [Oct. 6]: Update sprites for the playable character boy_01 based on the new set of basic sprites, update shading and document on wiki.

• Step 5 [Oct. 6]: Design and make sprites for new enemy cat_00 and documented on wiki.

• Step 6 [Oct. 6]: Update the playable character boy_00 with the updated basic set of sprites for characters.

• Step 7 [Oct. 6]: Implement animations when using the switch character button.

• Step 8 [Oct. 7]: Write Junit tests for functions implemented in sprint 3, write Junit tests for classes/functions that haven’t been covered for studio 7.

• Step 9 [Oct. 7]: Fix bugs identified on Sonarcloud.

• Step 10 [Oct 7]: Make atlas for new enemies, update atlas for old playable characters and NPCs.

• Completion Deadline [Oct. 7]

Documentation

• Characters & NPCs Design User Testing
• Enemy Design Guide
• Movement Animations
• Path Finding of the NPC Mom
• Styling Guide and Best Practices for Studio 7
• UML Diagrams (Sprint 2)
• UML Diagrams (Sprint 3)

Members

Benjamin Israel (@benisrael29) (Benjamin Israel)
Changhao Xi (@ChanghaoXi) (Raymond)
Tina Goyal (@tinagoyal203) (Tina Goyal)
Wenqi Lyu (@wenqi6) (Wenqi Lyu)
Yiling Shi (@shiyiling1) (Jessie)

[ChanghaoXi]

Feature ticket created and reviewed by @ChanghaoXi

[ChanghaoXi]

@naziah28 @uqnjain Hi, this is the feature ticket of Team 1 for sprint 3, please have a look, thanks :)

[ChanghaoXi]

Feature ticket updated by @ChanghaoXi

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Feature ticket reviewed and closed by @ChanghaoXi