Look into how to build transition manager in ECS.

• Map loading
• Player, monster movement, removing, spawning (including teleporting)
• Hub
• Items on tiles

PR: #17

Look into the details of how to do 2d animation in Unity.

ETA

• By Sept 19, before meeting

Features

Board

• Camera control
• Handle portal leave
• Death effect
• Spawn effect
• Portal effect

UI

• Complete hub info
• In game menu

Notes

Look into how to build a 2d map efficiently and comfortable in Unity (ex. tilemap)

Bring prototype transitions related stuff to production ready

Overview

• ETA: by Sept 12, end of day

Features

Initialization

• Basic map loading
• Connection to a web socket server

Per Turn

• Dispatch tasks in Director object
• Basic character spawning
• Basic character removal
• Basic character moving

UI

• Scene loader
• Basic hub

The overall goal of iteration 0 is to build a minimal working visualizer for Mechmania 2020. Below are the tasks identified as needed to build a minimal working product.

Phase 1

• Andrew Gao: add ECS related stuff
• Peter: implement streaming functionalities #10

Optional

• Andrew Li & Aditya: research the following topics
  • UI
  • Amazon S3
  • Movement system
• Map: implement a map controller that loads the map from a configuration file

Phase 2

After Andrew Gao's ECS stuff is done, we can get started working on the basic systems and UIs of the game

• Movement system
• UI

No specific assignees are set due to the harsh reality of college.

Cause

The engine is not sending the character changes

Cause

Engine is not sending monsters on boards

Look into how to do WebSocket in desktop and web environment.

Features

Features listed here are stretch goals

• Stretch Goal Player clothes (Maybe Michelle)
  • Steps
    1. Add Monobehavior components to Player Prefab's root object
    2. Make sure the added components are configured properly in board creator
    3. Add UpdatePlayerClothesTask class in Scripts/Tasks
    4. Create a new systsem in Scripts/Systems and handle UpdatePlayerClothesTask. (Take a look at how hubs are updated)
    5. Make sure Director correctly generate UpdatePlayerClothesTask (write test case)

• Look into how to do manipulate transform of game objects (aka entities) and update UI in ECS and Unity.
• Look into how to do theming with UI (research Material Design Theme if you don't know what this means)
• Start design the UI

ETA

• Sept 23

Features

• Attack effect
• Auto reconnect
• Load different types of enemy (Aras)
  • Asset
  • Steps
    1. Create monster in BoardCreator
    2. Add necessary info to SpawnMonsterTask
    3. Handle SpawnMonster task in BoardUpdator
    4. Make sure SpawnMonsterTask can be generated correctly from Director (write test case)
• Fancy board loading
  • Display treasure troves on tiles
• Only show hubs on hover
• Camera following
  • HubToggleSystem contains snippets for deciding if the mouse is over a player
  • Thoughts: When a player clicks (or double click) on a character, then the camera should be tracking that character; another click (or double click) should free the camera

Notes

Attack Effect

The CharacterDecision's target position tells you the, well, target position. But some weapons do splash damage, affecting the tiles around that target position. The attack_locations field in CharacterChange is a list of all positions affected by this character's attack (empty/null if they didn't attack). Does that make sense?

State (aka. Vertex)

• ID to represent players
• Where players are
• Stats of players
• Turn number
• Map
• Location and state of items (if applicable)

Delta (aka. Edge)

• Player's movement
• Actions
• Change in stats
• Player deaths, new players

Features

• Playback sliders
• Listen to >= 1 servers (testing and real-game servers) and change between scenes (battle royale scene and private scene)
• Integrate art assets

Implement data fetching

• Websocket
  • Desktop #16
  • WebGL
• Amazon S3
  • Desktop
  • WebGL
• File system
  • Desktop

ETA

• Sept 25

Features

• Add credits
• Add tutorials
• Add post processing
• Add lighting effects to effects
• Weapons
  • Asset
  • Steps: same as above