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Team Pink In: Ugly The Cat In: Missiles and Mayhem

Aaron Bush, Brian Egan, Chloe Evans, Dariel Ravelo-Ramos, Ian McFarlane, John Haley, James Zilberman

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Elevator Pitch

Ugly the Cat: Missile and Mayhem is a Loony Tunes inspired Multiplayer First Person Arena Shooter where players fire slow reloading cannons at each other to be the last ones standing.

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Over time the game will get wackier as the character gain power ups to flip the game on it's head. Can you survive this slapstick carnage?!?!?

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Pre-Production and Prototyping

Went Well:

  • We went through prototyping relatively smoothly.

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  • We found a prototype that was fun from the start

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  • We found an easy way to make a common genre our own with art

Would Do Differently:

  • The methods and resources we used for pre-production were not really used during production as much as they could of

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  • We probably could of tried out a bit more prototype ideas if we had planned batter

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Engine

Went Well:

  • Split-screen was simple and satisfying
  • Basic engine components were similar to PS4 and easy to set up
  • The Unity JSON loader worked well, and the PS5 JSON library was very helpful
  • Camera Bitmasks made me happy

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  • Developing engine at the same time as the game

Would Do Differently

  • Developing engine at the same time as the game caused some issues
  • It took a good amount of time for the engine to reach a state it could be used
  • UI was not prioritized
  • Merge graphics into main gameplay sooner

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Physics and Transform Hierarchy

Went Well:

  • Physics works!

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  • Transform hierarchy mostly works as long as you don’t look to closely

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  • Attaching meshes and physics bodies works which is the cool important part

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  • API is pretty clean!

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  • Misc. unsung heroes of the engine:
    • Stable<T>
    • ResourceManager

Would Do Differently:

  • Don’t use segmented coordinates

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  • Focus on raycasting before collision handlers

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  • gen::opt<Transform> Get()

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Audio

Would do Differently:

  • Reach out for help sooner.
  • Set deadlines for progress

Went Well:

  • It all of the features we wanted completed by the end of the semester

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Gameplay

Went Well:

  • Things were done quickly and efficiently
  • Adapted quickly to changes in the engine
  • Parameterized combat
  • Powerups are fun
  • Rocket jumping :)

Would Do Differently:

  • Program movement differently to be less based on constantly setting velocity
  • Decided to implement powerups sooner so we could have more
  • Work more closely with the engine team

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Art

Art - Google Drive

.README - Google Docs

Went Well:

  • Very nice and simple art style that fit really well with this game concept

Would do differently:

  • Not taken italian

My boi clyde

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Overall

Went Well:

  • Very small scope from the beginning
  • Really all of pre-production
  • Communication among the team
  • Tasks were completed quickly

Would Do Differently:

  • Scope a little bigger?
  • Prioritize UI more

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