Contraptions Design Specification

"The Ship Game 4.5"

Widgets, whatsits, dohickies and thingamabobs

By Kenneth Manta

Section 1.1.x: Overview


Specification Index

For notes on game design specs see Here

-------- 1. Overview--------

    

  1. Overview: The Design Treatment

  2. Feeling of the game: Charactor Design, What are you? Story? Tribe of warring fetuses.

  3. Phychological reasons for aspects of the game: Feeling of accomplishment. 

  4. GUI Design

  5. Coding Conventions and Patterns

  6. Terminology for game character


---- 2. Generic Gameplay----

    

  1. Gameplay description


--- 3. Gameplay Implementation---

    

  1. Object Hierarchy and Interation

  2. MasterSession: Holds the official session. The other sessions are Loose, undoable copies of the session.

  3. Game Session(Game Play): How the gameplay, physics and drawscreen interact

  4. Contraptions

  5. Contraption Editor

  6. Network Stucture

  7. Widgets: Parts on a grid that make up a contraption. Widget signals

  8. Widget Pointers: An easy way for scripts and other objects to reference widgets

  9. Input

  10. Dohickies: Widgets shoot out dohickies

  11. Whatnots: Static terrain objects

  12. Thingamabobs: Dynamic terrain objects

  13. Structure of Gameplay

  14. Scripting

  15. Maps

  16. AI

  17. Camera Control


--- 4. Specific Gameplay Modes---

    

  1. Modes of gameplay

  2. Solve Challenges

  3. Challenges

  4. Construct Contraption

  5. Network Battle

  6. Tutorial Design


---Game Screens---

    

  1. Contraption Edit Screen


------- 5. Art-------

    

  1. Graphic Bible: Style sheets and color schemes (i.e., pantone) for your characters and monsters.  

  2. Artwork Design

  3. Sound Design: evil, minor: A list of the sound effects and music tracks required in the game.

  4. Music Design

  5. Other: A list of all other materials which must be produced by the team: press materials, demos, screen shots, box art, manual, etc.


------ 6. Ideas------

    

  1. Future Ideas


----- 7. Physical-----

    

  1. File types and Location

  2. Hosts: Game Hosts and Server Hosts

  3. Instalation, Uninstall, Physical location on CPU


---- 8. Marketing----

    

  1. Contraption's Paraphanalia: The lighter, Poster, Cup

  2. Game Competitions

  3. 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.

  4. A discussion of game pricing, marketing strategy, and prizes.


--- 9. Development Plan---

    

  1. 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.

Notes

The terms Ship and Contraption will be used interchangably throughout this document.

















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