Project Plan

Project Plan

Project members: Georgios Chatzoglakis & Stefan Somo.

Goal: Make an Arkanoid clone before the end of the course using C++ and SDL:

Georgios is in charge of putting the parts of the program together while Stefan is in charge of creating classes that can be implemented into the main program. The aim is to implement all the basic features first to get a working prototype as fast as possible and with time left add more content to the game.

Week 1: (starting December 11^th)

Build the base of the following classes.

Engine class

Drawmanager class

SpriteManager class

Sprite class

InputManager class

Vector class

GameObject class

PlayerObject class.

Week 2: (until 22^th of December)

Build and add the following classes and try to get some basic game elements working like the player and the ball with some easier collision.

Boll Class.

Collider Class

Enemy object class

Week 3: (22^th – 27^th)

Holliday break for a few days.

Week 4: (27^th December – January 2^nd)

Improve the gameplay and collision. Add the following classes.

File handling class

Animation class

Sound class

Week 5:  (3^rd January – 10^th of January)

Polish and improve the game

If time permits, Start working on Visual effects, Vector effects on the ball.

Add a GUI, Enemies with some kind of AI.

Last Week: (11^th January to 18^th?...date not set )

Polish, game testing and bug squashing.

Work divided so far:

Georgios work on the Engine, Drawmanager, SpriteManager and Sprite class

Stefan starts with the Input Manager class and later move on to the Vector class.

Decisions made

Plan is to make the basics of the game work first and then add more elements after the basic stuff like moving and drawing sprites are done.

The border of the game space will probably be hardcoded into the game to begin with to avoid strange collision behaviors.

The gameobject class will have a few subclasses (all not decided yet) put will probably include

Playerobject, ball, Tile/obstacle, Enemy object, drop Items, score/highscore, and a class to handle the graphical user interface

Collision/collider class,

We will start with box vs box collision and then move to box vs circle if we can manage it.

Circle vs circle and perfect pixel is a secondary task and will be implemented if solution is figured out.

Sound class will include sound and music manager.

A filehandling class will be added and improved during the project. First to load a level map from file and then if solution found it might be used to save and load highscore to file

Animation class will be added to handle animation of enemy objects if time permits.

Visual effects of some sort, AI on enemies, a GUI class, a text class and a more advanced vector class will be worked on if time permits

Some kind of start screen and end screen will be added as well after lecture about game states.