Pedal Plane flight game

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Pedal Plane flight game

• Applied Widgetronics, Inc
• Robert Kooima, Joe Love

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Game features

• Attract mode screen
• Level select
• 3 levels
• Food worries
• High scores

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Gameplay

• Flying through rings, race against clock
• Human-powered plane
• speed affected by stamina food
• Cartoon-like world
• Free flight mode
• No food, no stamina use

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Game rationale

• Reasons for a cartoon-like flying game
• Accessible to large audience
• Simple control scheme
• Not aiming for realism
• Likely to fail at being real
• Realism is boring
• Combining these prevents frustration

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Fun Features

• Cartoonish look and feel
• Stamina food
• Challenging
• Funny (turkeys in the air)
• Distinct world design
• Enjoyable
• Free flight

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Graphical Elements

• World, model, graphic creation
• Where did these come from?
• Tools used
• Wings 3D
• Milkshape
• Gimp
• Hud image overlay creation

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Sound Flight

• Sounds
• Found throughout the game
• Taken from sound archives
• Flight model
• Based on very simplified real-world flight

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Difficulties overcome

• Unfamiliarity with Blitz3D
• Doing it for the first time
• Trial error process in Blitz3D
• Unexpected behaviors
• Difficulties moving 3D models into Blitz3D

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Missed features

• More human audio
• Breathing, panting, eating
• More custom sound effects
• Original Music
• Animated environment
• Ex cars moving around the world

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What went right

• Proper time planning
• Project did not overreach
• Use of Subversion
• Subversion a version control system
• Multiple developers on the same code without
  spending time on conflict resolution

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What we created

• A fun game
• An amusing game
• An easy to play, hard to beat game
• Original artwork models
• Amusing audio