Specification: DO NOT PLACE ANYTHING HERE ITS A COPY
For notes on game design specs see Here

--------Overview--------
Overview: The Design Treatment
Feeling of the game: Charactor Design, What are you? Story?
Phychological reasons for aspects of the game: Feeling of accomplishment. 
GUI Design
Coding Conventions and Patterns
Terminology for game character
----Generic Gameplay----
Gameplay description
---Gameplay Implementation---
Input
MasterSession Loose, undoable design of the session
Game Session(Game Play): How the gameplay, physics and drawscreen interact
Contraptions
Contraption Editor
Network Stucture
Widgets: Parts on a grid that make up a contraption. Widget signals
Dohickies: Widgets shoot out dohickies
Whatnots: Static terrain objects
Thingamabobs: Dynamic terrain objects
Structure of Gameplay
Scripting
Maps
AI
---Specific Gameplay Modes---
Modes of gameplay
Solve Challenges
Challenges
Construct Contraption
Network Battle
Tutorial Design
---Game Screens---
Contraption Edit Screen
-------Art-------
Graphic Bible: Style sheets and color schemes (i.e., pantone) for your characters and monsters.  
Artwork Design
Sound Design: evil, minor: A list of the sound effects and music tracks required in the game.
Music Design
Other: A list of all other materials which must be produced by the team: press materials, demos, screen shots, box art, manual, etc.
------Ideas------
Future Ideas
-----Physical-----
File types and Location
Hosts: Game Hosts and Server Hosts
Instalation, Uninstall, Physical location on CPU
----Marketing----
Contraption's Paraphanalia: The lighter, Poster, Cup
Game Competitions
Unconventional Forms of advertizing. ----Removed---- Discussion on questionable attributes of Contraptions to increase public attention. The boy who spilled the milk to gain attention If its questionable it has to be good.
A discussion of game pricing, marketing strategy, and prizes.
---Development Plan---
Current Work/ Schedule:A detailed project plan and schedule, including a preliminary assignment list for each member of the production team, a list of dependencies (i.e., a Pert chart), reasonable milestones, and contingency plans.

• Intended audience: Ages 11-16 seem to be most interested in the game. The game features both puzzles for those who enjoy solving. The network play will be enjoyed by those who like to "blow stuff up." It is an action/puzzle game with the versatility of an RPG.

External Libraries
Section 2.0.*

FreeGlut
Polylib

Polylib utilities
Polyart 2D Physics Engine
Polyart Graphics Engine
Polyart Sound Engine
Polyart GUI
Polyart Scripting

Openal
Opengl
PNG SDK
OGG Vorbis
Lib3DS: ew


Game GUI Interfaces
Section 1.0.*

GUI Navigation Classes
Section 1.0.0
CGameMode: Implemented in GameMode.cpp
SetMode(CGameMode* DerivedClass);

CGameMode is implemented in polylib as CScreen and should optionally be changed.



GUI Navigation Maps overview
Section 1.0.1
TitleScreen->SelectionChallenge{
	EditShip->
}
Section 1.0.2

Game Start->GUIInterface = TitleScreen


Game Screens
Section 1.1.*

Title Screen
Section 1.1.1
Interface selection: The following interfaces 

"Solve Challenge": Puzzle Mode
"Contstruct Contraption"
"Battle Ships"
"Network Battle"
"Options"

Screen should display the games title and a description of each interface type.

Optional future game modes

Interactive Demo Mode: you watch a demo of people doing crazy thing with the ships however you can hit spacebar and control it from wherever the demo is at kind of a see if you can do that too thing like it might show a level were someone managed to shoot a bullet though a little hole in another ship destroying this huge ships commander




Scattered Notes
Options
Modifies CGlobalOptions





Menu system: Configures the gameplay: GUI system is a way the user can play with the interfaces of the game
Ship Editing
Game Play



Optional future threading model
Main - Controls input and other threads - Controls screens: game via a control pipe
Game?/Physics(N) - Sends screen frame data via pipe. Sends moving object info so that objects can smoothly move even if the physics is slowing
Display - Renders at nice framerate: has 2 layers, one for the CScreen(Top) and one for the game/physics(bottom)
DataLoader

• CSession - This is an instance of a running shipgame.
• CPlayer - These point to individual ships. This may or may not represent a real player. These are wrappers for individual streams.
• CSync - This is the router of all IO in a session. Hook various streams to this to redirect IO.

• Start();
• Clear();
• SetMap(string Map);

widgets make up contraptions
gadget


thingy
syn: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy


whatnot, bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, knickknackery]


what·sit    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (hwtst, hwt-, wt-, wt-) or what·sis (-ss)
n. Informal 
Something or someone whose name has been forgotten or is not known.

what·not    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (hwtnt, hwt-, wt-, wt-)
n. 
A minor or unspecified object or article. 

gadgetry


what·sit    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (hwtst, hwt-, wt-, wt-) or what·sis (-ss)
n. Informal 
Something or someone whose name has been forgotten or is not known.


session does not send over ship pointers

Standard return values for functions
BOOL -	0=worked
		1=Error

bool -	0=failed
		1=success