Friday, November 7, 2008

Caption and Individual Statement

As we know snakes and ladders is a game of obstacles and shortcuts. The aim of our game is to reach to the top first. Thanks to Jeffrey's suggestion we have divided the building into four themes, which mean four paths red for fire, blue for water and ice, green for foliage and yellow for electricity.

The paths are design according to these themes. Along these paths, there are obstacles such as flipping floors, falling ladders, spikes, hidden floors, etc and there are shortcuts such as moving floors, moving stairs that will take the player up to the top faster.

Due to time constraints some of our ideas were not implemented such as placing the bottom half of the building under sea level so that the game starts in the water, where the player will have to swim to find the way up.


Individual Statement

My responsibilities are adding movers and interpactors which include moving platforms, trap/falling platforms, moving in/out traps, opening of railings, falling ladders, spikes and moving statues. The interpactor is slightly different from the mover, the script in Kismet and Matinee animation has not been made. I simply selected the interpactor (platform or ladder), and added it as a new group in Matinee. I added and edited keyframes to create movement track for the animation. We added invisible trigger volumes onto the interpactors, as the player touches it; the object (door, railing, etc) opened and moved.

I have added cinematic sequences to the introduction of the game and the ending game. The introduction video introduces our four play starts (red, yellow, blue and green). The ending video celebrates the victory of the winner who reaches the top first.

Final UT3 Files and Final Demo

Demo File

ON3_Experiment03_Files.zip

Final UT3 File (Map and Packages)

UT3_EditorFiles.zip

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Draft Map and Packages from UT3 for the Draft Demos

DraftDemoUT3Files.zip

The map and packages used to create the draft demo can be found at the above URL.

Draft Demo

To find the folder with the demo files go to URL: UTGame.zip

The URL above on file front contains all the 'cooked' files (found in the UTGame folder) for the Draft Demo showing particles, kismet and Matinee.

The demos are obviously found in the demo folder.

Jeff Aguas Particle Demo is called : Player-2008_11_07-11_39_54.demo

Rachel Mackenzie Kismet Demo is called: Player-2008_11_07-11_51_53.demo

Chivonda Lam Matinee Demo is called: Player-2008_11_07-11_57_50.demo

9 x Screenshots

9 Screenshots of game environment. And 3 screenshots of game construction.
The goal to reach the top.

Moving lifts, as indicated in the draft 30s video.
Players start from the bottom. Picking the lift to go onto.

Flipping of floor piece.

Floor piece moving.
Moving stairs.


Spinning floors.

Animating door.


Cinematic Sequences


Organise Kismet window.


Creating lift's track.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Draft - 30 second video clip

Our “ON3” team will base our game on Snakes and Ladders. The above video contain ideas that can be use in our game: the player moves up using the lifts and drops down if they are not careful. I’ll propose this to my team mates.