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Game Design Documentation:

• Pre-Sprint Design Decisions
  • Game Theme
  • Game Goals and Objectives
  • Emotional Goals
  • Art Style
  • Inspiration

Coding

• Player

  • Player Overview Description
  • Player Movement
  • Player Health
  • Player Statistics
  • Player Attacks
  • Player Appearance
  • Player Abilities
  • Sprint 4 Player Abilities update
  • Player Inventory and Item Pickups
  • Sprint 3: Player Sound Effects
  • Sprint 3 Player State
  • Sprint 3 Player Torch
  • Sprint 4: Player SFX Management

• Enemies

  • Enemies Overview
  • Large Enemy
  • Long Range Enemy
  • Small Enemy
  • Short Range Enemy
  • Spawner Enemy
  • Tough Long Range Enemy
  • Final Boss
  • Enemy FilePaths
  • Sprint 4: Enemy AI and Interactions
  • Sprint 4: Enemy Loot

• Level Environment

  • Sprites
  • Level 1 Overview
  • Level 2 Overview
  • Level 3 Overview
  • Level Generation
  • Sprint 4 Level 1 Layout
  • Sprint 4: Environmental Effects

• Safehouse

  • Safehouse Overview
  • Sprint 3 Safehouse Overview
  • Sprint 4 Safehouse Overview

• Story

  • Story Overview
  • Story Manager

• UI

  • Title Screen
  • Pause Menu
  • Game Over Screen
  • Dialogue Boxes

• NPCS

  • Sprint 3: Friendly NPCs
  • Sprint 4: Firefly NPCs

• Darkness

  • Lighting Engine
  • Sprint 4: Darkness
  • Sprint 4: FlickerLightComponent

Design

• Art Direction
• Story Scene Design
• Title Screen Design
• HUD Design
• Music
• Independent Animator
• Weapons and Inventory Design
• Sprint 3 Design Player Ability Pickups
• Sprint 3 Friendly NPC Design
• Sprint 3 Cutscene Design
• Sprint 3 Upgraded Weapon Designs
• Sprint 3 Shopkeeper Design
• Sprint 3 Shop UI Design
• Sprint 4 Shop UI Design
• Sprint 3 Unlit Renderer
• Sprint 3: Safehouse/Shop Design
• Sprint 4: Sound Effects
• Sprint 4: Enemy Sound Effects
• Sprint 4: Large Enemy
• Sprint 4: Long Range Enemy
• Sprint 4: Small Enemy
• Sprint 4: Spawner Enemy
• Sprint 4: Tough Long Range Enemy
• Sprint 4: Enemy Projectiles
• Sprint 4: Polishing Environmental Assests
• Sprint 4: Polishing Player Assets
• Sprint 4: Player Sound Effects

User Guide

• Title Screen
• Player Overview
• The Wound System

Testing

• User Testing

  • User Testing Enemies: Interactions and Collisions
  • Sprint 1: User Testing Player: Thinking Aloud
  • User Testing Story and Music
  • User Testing Player: HUD Elements and Placement
  • User Testing Player: Player, Weapon and Item designs
  • User Testing Items: Functionality
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Player: First Iteration Additional Weapon Designs
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Player: Final Weapon Designs
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Shop: Shop popup box and buying system
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Story and NPCs
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Shopkeeper: Design
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Level 1: Design
  • Sprint 3: User Testing Final Boss
  • Sprint 3: Safe House Design User Testing
  • Sprint 4: Enemy Interactions User Testing
  • Sprint 4 Team 2: User Testing Level 1&2 Playthrough - Item, Weapons and Abilities Balancing
  • Sprint 4 Team 2: User Testing Player Sound Effects
  • Sprint 4 Team 3: User Testing Final Boss Level

• Testing Plans

  • Interface Testing Plan
  • Player Testing Plan
  • Story Testing Plan
  • Sprint 2: Player Testing Plan
  • Sprint 3: Story and NPC Testing Plan
  • Sprint 3: Shop, Weapons & Saving Testing Plan
  • Sprint 4: Enemy Testing Plan
  • Sprint 4: Team 2 Testing Plan

Game Engine Links:

• Entities and Components
  • Entity Component System (ECS)
  • Entities
  • Components
  • Configuring Entities
  • Events
• Service Locator
• Loading Resources: Batch loading game resources through the Resource Service.
• Logging:
• Unit Testing
• Debug Terminal
• Input Handling
  • Input Handling Overview
  • Using the Input System
• UI: Rendering UI elements on the game screen.
• Animations: Adding animations to entities.
• Audio: Playing audio.
• AI: Adding AI to entities.
• Physics: The physics Engine.
• Game Screens and Areas
  • Game Screens
  • Game Area
• Terrain
• Concurrency & Threading: General-purpose multi-threading through the Job System.
• Settings: The Settings Screen.