Production Team

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Team
Production Team UMD Staff Pete Kinnunen Johan
Ljungman John Gaffrey Mike Manard Aaron
Stokes CSS Staff Don Behm James Kells Jeff
Nofs Gustavo Gonzales Nick Scarlet
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Overview

• Implement four unique looking and acting vehicles
  each with an appropriate AI for
• Utilize a large volume of recorded voices to add
  to the dark humor atmosphere of the game
• Have realistic physics for each vehicle based on
  its type
• Areas of the map will serve as an advantage or
  disadvantage to a vehicle type

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UML Diagram Use Case
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Installation and Requirements

• Installation
• Please follow read the following requirements
  before installing this software.
• System Requirements
• Operating System Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Linux
• Processor Pentium III 1.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 1.0
  GHz or faster (1.2 GHz or faster recommended)
• Memory 128 MB RAM minimum (256 MB recommended)
• Hard Disk Space 300 MB free (Note this is for
  the mod only, it doesnt include space need for
  Unreal 2004)
• CD-ROM Drive 8X Speed
• Video 32 MB Windows 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible
  video card (64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 or ATI Radeon
  Hardware TL card recommended)
• Sound Windows 98/Me/2000/XP-compatible sound
  card (NVIDIA nForce or other motherboards/sound
  cards containing the Dolby Digital Interactive
  Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio.
  Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card recommended.)
• DirectX DirectX version 9.0b (included) or
  higher
• Modem Not needed for Alpha release.
• Indicates device should be compatible with
  DirectX version 9.0b
• or higher.
• Installation Instructions
• 1. Start Windows 98/Me/2000/XP.
• 2. Click on the .exe file and follow all
  installation instructions.
• 3. Click on the shortcut icon on your desktop to
  start the game.

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Game Mechanics

• Camera position 1st or 3rd person views
• Because of the Deathmatch nature of the game
  there will be no save feature
• Being able to play as 4 unique vehicle types will
  add to the replay ability as well as a map with
  unique areas that either give advantages or
  disadvantages to certain vehicle types

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Game Mechanics Cont.

• The HUD must take up little space on screen
• User must be able to fully view the vehicle and
  surroundings
• Requirements will be health, timer, weapon info
• Health info will utilize vehicle portraits where
  the image and color gives the status of vehicle
• Before entering a level, the game will display a
  intro screen, detailing the story

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HUD without final art
Weapon Info
Health
Timer
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Game Play Details

• It is a third person driving battle game
• Single player, with possibility of multiplayer
• Game modes Death match and item keep away
• Similar to Mario Kart battle mode or Twisted
  metal
• Dark Humor with slightly cartoon-like art design
• One playable level secretary of states driver
  renewal battle arena
• Will include voice acting
• Upon defeat of a character, they lose all their
  items that they collected allowing the victor to
  steal such items. The defeated will respawn
  elsewhere
• Each game ends after a certain time has passed or
  after a target score is reached (either by kills,
  or score by keeping away an item)

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User Manual Story Line

• Wake up old man! Its time to kill or be killed!
• This demo will feature one playable level The
  Secretary of States Sunday Driver Renewal Arena
  in Boca Raton, Florida. Inside this massive,
  state of the art, public entertainment facility
  lies the track. On it, you will be forced to
  prove your worth in a society whose main source
  of entertainment is the perpetuation of your
  extermination. In short you are already dead.
  Play as one of four characters pit against each
  other in state funded blood sport, where every
  wave of the checkered flag could mean an early
  retirement for you.Better make sure that
  decrepit old foot of yours still has some lead in
  it there pappy, cause believe me your ass is
  gonna need it out there in the Drome. Not like
  youll remember this, but survive the race and
  finish first and Government Z will allow you to
  live for a whole nother year and you might even
  get that license renewed too. Now get out there
  you old bastard, and show the world why you still
  deserve to live!

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Story Boards
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Story Boards
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Story Boards
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Controls

• The default controls will be the keyboard
• Keyboard
• Movement key
• Movement Key
• Fire Left Mouse Button
• Alternate Fire Right Mouse Button
• Move Forward (Accelerate) Up Arrow (or W)
• Move Backward (Reverse) Down Arrow (or S)
• Steer Left Left Arrow (or A)
• Steer Right Right Arrow (or D)
• Next Weapon Mouse wheel Down or Number Pad
  Plus()
• Previous Weapon Mouse wheel Up r Number Pad
  Minus (-)
• Switch to Last Weapon B
• Switch to Best Weapon G
• Change Perceptive F4

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Level Summary

• Will be a futuristic looking death arena
• Areas of the map be advantageous or
  disadvantageous to certain vehicle types

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Initial Level Design
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Artificial Intelligence

• Most vehicles will have behaviors takings
  advantage of the strengths or weaknesses of the
  vehicle
• Will build upon default AI for each unreal
  vehicle that our vehicles are based on
• AI will follow the paths set up within the level
• For player detection, will use the default UT2004
  code
• Motion will use the standard unreal methods for
  vehicles animation
• The three vehicles other than what the user
  chooses default to AI

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Artificial Intelligence Cont.

• Specific level puzzles will probably not be
  implemented due to the vehicle combat focus of
  the game
• The map itself will be modeled to have traps or
  disadvantageous areas for certain vehicle types
• Special actions by vehicles will be the
  interesting physics of each unique weapon

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Game Progression

• User selects the game mod in order to play
• User selects player/vehicles from menu
• A short game intro and story screen will be
  displayed for the user before entering the game
• User battle AI vehicles not chosen until the
  Deathmatch game goal is reached
• Game restarts until player chooses to quit

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Flowchart






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Data Dictionary

• All data described here are specific unreal class
  .uc files for each area of the game but can also
  include the map file as well as the texture,
  animation/mesh, and sound files
• HUD head up display class
• Game Type modified Deathmatch, forces players
  into vehicles, and spawning and respawning
  functionality

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Data Dictionary Cont.

• Segway vehicle type
• Trent Cheznor segway character
• Power chair vehicle type
• Big Grampy Cane power chair character
• Rascal scooter vehicle type
• Nano Nana rascal character
• Iron Lung vehicle type
• Dolph Lunggrim iron lung character

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Data Dictionary Cont.

• Weapon pawns and projectiles are all included
  under each vehicle .uc file

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Vehicles
Segway Driver Trent Cheznoir Speed 100/100
Armor 40/100 Weapon Power 60/100 Special
Fast Negative Low Health
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Vehicles
Rascal Driver Nano Nana Speed 70/100 Armor
60/100 Weapon Power 70/100 Special Medium
speed, powerful cat launcher attack Negative Not
the best at anything
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Vehicles
Negative Slower
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Vehicles
Negative slowest, cant move while firing
Concept Model not finalized
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Test Plan Strategy/Cases

• Test if HUD works with gametype, vehicles
• Test if character is situated right within
  vehicle
• Test hit boxes of vehicles
• Test physics of each vehicle
• Perfecting one vehicle will make implementing the
  rest faster
• Test game installer, ease of use
• Check if game ends appropriately for each vehicle
  when deathmatch goal is met
• Make sure that weapons with each vehicle aim and
  move appropriately

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Test Plans Cont.

• Schedule
• Week of 4/1 Finalize Beta, have all game
  components made, not finalized
• Week of 4/8 Finalize most of game components
  with final art and in game
• Week of 4/15 Begin testing, tweak physics,
  balance game play
• Week of 4/22 Finish testing, finalize game