http://isugamedev.sourceforge.net/midworld/

See MidworldStory

Tasks for Release

Priority 1

• A level
  • Level file written
  • MidworldModels?
• AI
  • Flocking (JoshBrown)
  • Shooting (JoshBrown)
  • Home in on player (JoshBrown)
• Animation by Keyframing (BenScott and ChadAustin)
• Fill out application for the IGF (JoshBrown)
• Update midworld webpage and make it a 'game page', not a 'development page'

Priority 2

• Heads up display (LeviVanoort? and ChadAustin)
  • Straight up 2D graphical design here
• Sound effects
  • Pistol
  • Assault Rifle
  • Graphics for Max Payne-style storytelling (comic book style)
• Other inmates in the compound
  • Mutated/normal men/children/women/other
  • Dead bodies
• Ammo handling (picking up more ammo)
  • Player needs a generic ammo bag that all weapons draw from first.

Priority 3

• Model pieces (for explosions)
  • Models of the pieces (can we rip this from the models?)
  • Need that particle engine
• Music
  • make music loop
• Shit hitting ground and bouncing
  • We need the ground plane/entity in the spatial index

Priority 4

• User manual
  • Text describing how to install, setup, and play the game.
  • Graphic design
• Printed jewel case
  • Graphic design
  • Jewel cases
• Fly-by level intro - camera on a path (ChadAustin)
  • Animation paths
• Homing missles
  • Homing AI
  • Missle model
• Screen shake
  • This could be done with a transform node at the top of the scene graph.
• Gas Barrels
• Input bindings (JohnathanGurley?)
  • Remap keys (JohnathanGurley?)

Not Gunna Happen

• A level editor

Completed Tasks

• OpenSG? SpatialIndex? (BenScott)
  • This will make the collision detection work absolutely correctly on bounds
• Loading screen (BenScott)
  • Straight up 2D kick-ass artwork here.
• Sketch of the level (ChadAustin)
  • Level layout (ChadAustin)
• Level loader (ChadAustin)
  • Level file format (ChadAustin)
• AI
  • Loom integration (JoshBrown)
• Music
  • Intro/Menu (Matt Billock)
  • Story (Matt Billock)
  • Game
• Explosions
  • Need particles - simple entities? (LeviVanoort?)
• A story
  • We need this written down electronically so we have a common vision. (JoshBrown)

-- BenScott - 26 Dec 2002