funativity cs 426 fall 2008. outline team members tools overview programming art game inspiration...

Funativity

CS 426Fall 2008

Outline

Team members Tools Overview

ProgrammingArt

Game Inspiration Game Description Demo

Team Members

David Smits – LeadChintan Patel – ProgrammerJim Gagliano – ProgrammerAshleigh Wiatrowski - Artist

Programming Tools

Visual Studio Express 2005XNA Game Studio 2.0SVNTracN unit

Visual Studio Express 2005

- Free IDE for C# development- Built in debugger- Auto-complete- Works easily with XNA

XNA Game Studio 2.0

- Library for building games for Windows and XBOX 360- Large Community Base- Takes care of sound loading,

texture loading, model loading

SVN - Subversion

- Version Control system- use TortoiseSVN wrapperfor Windows- allows developers to see who made changes

Trac

- Bug Tracking System- Enables effective trackingof bugs with priority values- Logs who fixed which bugs and how

Nunit

- Unit Testing framework for.net languages- uniform interface for testingcode- enables quick changes

Art Tools

Maya

Maya

- 3d modeling package- exports file formats thatXNA can load

Inspiration - Bloons

www.addictinggames.com/bloons.html - Simple Concept: Pop balloons with darts- Simple Controls: Forceand angle- Fun!

Idea – Bloons 3D

- Same concept – pop balloons- Controls – force, vertical dir., adds horizontal dir.- Fun? Hopefully.

Demo of Tools

Presentation of a simple game coded in XNA