CPSC 4160/6160: �Milestone 1 Presentation�

Franchesca Hauck

CPSC 6160

Game description

Name title:

Adventures of Zentha Ashryn

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Genre:

Adventures of Zentha Ashyrn is a 2D side-scrolling action adventure

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The player navigates through the game via a side-scrolling course to defeat monsters that cross her path

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Game description

Game Objectives:

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Zentha has to survive to escape the dungeon as she is attacked by monsters.

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She can use magic or melee attacks to defend herself against the monsters.

Game information

Skill rating: 13+ year-olds.

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Younger players need to be able to adapt attacks and defenses to survive and defeat the monsters.

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Audience: Male and Females above 13 years old and older.

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Subgroups: People familiar with Dungeons and Dragons; fans of fantasy and fighting action.

Game references

Other games:

https://trex-runner.com/

Game references

Other games: Gun Force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hsMh6ylelw

Color palette

Entities – Player character

1. Main character
1. Behavior – run (left or right), fire or ice magic attack, melee attack, glowing orb, death
2. Looks – female elven sorcerer
3. Input description – arrow keys for movement (left, right), and WASD for attacks
4. Health tracked through health points

Entities - Enemies

1. Enemy
1. Behavior – melee attacks
2. Looks – fantasy monster (skeleton and bat)
3. Health – will have health points, upon collision with player, will deal a certain amount of damage points

Entities - Enemies

1. Enemy
1. Behavior – melee attacks, magic attack
2. Looks – fantasy monsters (shaman goblin)
3. Health – will have health points, upon collision with player, will deal a certain amount of damage points

Entities - Items

1. Entities
1. Behavior – gives bonus to player attacks
2. Looks – potions for healing (white box) or attack bonuses (yellow box)
3. Vials will appear randomly during the game, upon collision, will reap the benefits for a certain time period

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Game mechanics

• Side-Scroll Adventure/Action: The core gameplay of the “Adventures of Zentha Ashryn" revolves around adventuring, where players control Zentha as they traverse various levels filled with obstacles and enemies

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• Run: Players can make Zentha run to navigate the game world. Using WASD will trigger attacks against enemies (S = kicking melee attack, D = punching melee attack, W = ice blast magic attack, A = fireball magic attack)

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• Power-Ups: The game features a variety of power-ups that grant special abilities to the player character:
• Healing Potion: Increases Zentha’s health.
• Fire Potion: Gives a boost to Zentha’s fire attack so monsters will take more damage.
• Ice Potion: Gives a boost to Zentha’s ice attack so monsters will take more damage.

Game mechanics

• Enemies: The game features a variety of enemies, including Goblins, Bats, and Skeletons. Players can defeat these enemies by attacking them with weapons or magic, enhancing the attack using power-ups.

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• Infitine Scrolling: As long as Zentha’s heath doesn’t go below zero, she will continue to run through the dungeon and face randomly generated monsters.

Player’s mechanics

The mechanics of Zentha involve

• Running
• Punching
• Kicking
• Casting magic

Modules

1. Think technically what modules you will need to create your game.
• Zentha (main character)
• Monsters
1. Minions
• Power ups
2. Technical description:
1. How are you planning to control the character? – keyboard inputs (arrow keys and WASD)
2. Are you planning to use a fancy algorithm to control the character’s speed? - no
3. These questions also can be applied to
1. Effects
2. Collision detection - masking only for Zenta
3. Physics
4. Development plan

Software architecture

Timeline

1. How are you planning to develop this game?
• Add dates and objectives so you can accomplish Milestone 2: Game draft
• Background images (dungeon setting, skulls littering the ground)
• Zentha (movement, magic)

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• You should try to answer these questions:
• What modules are going to be a priority?
• Zentha
• Monster Minions
• Potions
• What module will be difficult to achieve?
• Monster attack – collision detection and