Team Tower Defense Reloaded
Team Members:
- Brandon Whitehead brandon.whitehead@gatech.edu
- Dan Simmons dsimmons@gatech.edu
- Jeffrey Portman jportman@gatech.edu
- Alex Trevor atrevor@gatech.edu
Requirements Met:
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Two or more instances of the game should establish connections to each other.
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The initial game state should be synchronized.
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The game should communicate all changes in state as the game progresses.
Known issue: initial state and subsequent synchronization is in-place and working great. One issue we're having that we were unable to fix prior to the submission was that the character object animations weren't being displayed between clients -- the movement was present (looks as if players are gliding), but not the respective specific animations. We should be able to figure out a solution before our next deliverable.
Install Instructions:
Nothing special. The Web Player should be straightforward and building the Unity project should work as well. Let us know if you have issues!
Instructions To Grader:
n to bring up the networking prompt. Have one copy of Unity run "Be Server" and the other run "Connect To Server" to demonstrate network capability. For the sake of the Web Player or a single Unity instance, "Be Server" essentially functions as a local-only game while no one is connected.
ASWD to move around. Shift to sprint. c to create one of the three towers of various respective types. Fire2 (usually right click) to use knock-back effect (use the cylinders in the game to demonstrate). Right CTRL to use the player's ability to shoot projectiles.
Objective: Enemies spawn from the red particle effect across the map. Their behavior is to pathfind around the terrain and/or obstacles (namely, towers) towards the lighter particle effect, the destination. The objective of the game is to thwart their attempts at accomplishing the latter by strategically placing towers of various rates of fire, damage types, etc... across the terrain.
Note: Many game mechanics are proof-of-concept to some degree, namely tower creation/placement. Currently there are no time, space, or resource limitations on placing new towers. Further, towers presently have a very far (almost inifinite) projectle range with placeholder damage modifiers that simply shoot the closest enemy to them at any point in time. Enemies currently spawn in somewhat of fixed increments of times rather than in "levels" or "waves" like we envision they will eventually.
Currently, the focus was mainly on getting rudementary pathfinding, networking, and physics incorporated into the game, along with base game mechanics. Our plan going forth is to further refine the aforementioned and hammer out the rest of the functionality before our next/final deliverable.
Scene To Open:
"Prototype" scene.