Ironic Demo

Definitions

Optional x - denotes the priority of of the optional component.  1 denotes a high priority optional component and 5 denotes the least priority optional component possible. 

Description

The essence of the demo is a spear throwing contest where players try to heave a spear further than other players. Players have a few basic stats which improve over time. Additionally, players will be able to join guilds where the guilds are able to compete against each other based upon their member's performance.
Players will be able to stroll about the scenic forest and stop off for an ale at a small hunting lodge, turned tavern.
Players will have their rankings published on a web site and the current distance champion gets to wear a special armor denoting their preeminence * among their peers.

Goals

• Create a Simple Game Based on NeL
• Learn nel and extend it to somehting usable
• Create a viable art pipeline
• Create the demo to use as a recruiting tool
• Create documentation around WW (design docs)
• Create promotional tools other than the demo to help us
• Attract talent (web site / docs / etc)
• Create a more vibrant community around nel (hopefully causing nevrax to care about nel more)
• Create tools to facilitate development
• Create artwork and style guides to be followed in Werewolf

Walk-through

Here we'll take a virtual walk through of all the areas in the Demo.

Initial Sign Up Process

Sign Up
Sign Up Services
Forms
Create accounts and relay that to the db server
Sends email to user
Web Site
Detects if server is full
login id name email addy
reply to email and click on link to activate

Log In

get patches / updates (the first time no patches up to date exe)
connected to service and client logs in

player name
create character
Initial log in place

Character Creator

LH Nav Pane Describing the Various areas that the player can manipulate.
Players should be able to click in the 3d on the stuff that they want to change optional 3
Player must choose all features, can't just skip to exit (we don't give them any appearance defaults)
Change appearance in game
Change clothing colors
join a clan

General controls

• color palette
• value / brightness
  Appearance
• General Physique
  • height
  • fatness
  • feet
  • size
  • complexion
  • hand
    • size
  • arms / shoulder musculatur
• hands
• Head
  • General size
• hair
  • color
  • style
• mustache
  • color
  • style
• beards
  • color
  • style
• nose
  • length
  • bridge length and width
  • ball size
  • crookedness ie broken nose or sharp angles
• height of brow
• eyebrows
  • style / bushy
  • position is based on brow height
• Eyes
  • color
  • width which eyes are separated arecontrolled by width of the bridge of the nose
• mouth
  • position
  • fullness
  • fullness of upper and lower lips
• jaw
  • position
  • roundness
• ears
  • position
  • size
  • lobe size
  • do they stick out from the head (dumbo)
• tattoos
  • Style
  • head
  • neck
  • textures for the face
  • height of cheek bones
• Clothing
• bracers
  • color of the fur
• belt
  • color (vertex colors?)
  • gem color in belt
• pants
  • style
  • color
• scabbard
• boots
  • fur style
  • color
• Clan specific changes
• sash
  • color (vertex colors?)
• color changes

• sash colors
  • vertex colors
• color changes
• bracers - color of the fur
• belt color
• pants
• scabbard
• boots and fur of the boots
• body armor color and a logo - optional 3 - it would take some time to create all the metal textures needed
• scars - optional 5

General

• Name
• Shard

Locations

Here we'll describe the various places you can visit in the demo. 

Initial Log In Area

The Plaque - When the player logs in they are facing a plaque, which they can read.  The plaque details the basic commands in the demo, where the different areas of the game is, and the various things you can do (spear throwing, hang out at the tavern or wander around the forest)

Spear Range

This is a wide open field with a nice line drawn on one end.  Throughout the range are targets, which are of a standardized kind (deer shaped or some other wildlife that hunters favor).

Field Master who keeps track of spears.
try and walk out of the range with one and you get insulted by him
you have to pay for spears if you use / lose too many

Bar

go in sit down on benches and ground
use button to sit down
Bartender (optional - 1)
Self-serve bar
tap
use key kills up a mug
getting fat - optional 3
click several times player drinks straight from the tap (optional feature 4)
beer mugs laying around
apples to be given to the horse
food - optional 3 this is linked to whether or not we implement getting fat. gruel in the cauldron
Horse
generally roaming around opposite the spear throwing feild
give him
pet him

Pond

Stone throwing - optional 5
Stone skipping - optional 5
wade into the pool - optional 5
ducks or swans in the pool - optional 5
(no swimming)
Sign Up Process
Login Process

The Forest

A nice fir forest with a few other types of trees. 

Possible Actions 

Drink
Eat
Pick up spear
Pull spear out of target
Open a door
Close a door
Talk
Cheer
Greet
Toast
Laugh
Pet horse
Feed horse
Change clan
Have a normal state of mind
Be drunk
Camera Movement? Yes
swing camera about moving the mouse or using arrow keys

Gameplay

What happens when you throw spears at stuff you don't want them to
some items can be targeted and others cannot
ducks fly away
pcs / npcs and other animals, the spear would just bounce off
radius + distance go into figuring high scores
Spear Throwing
a hit is a hit... targets are std in the range
players can setup a target or define areas in the target w/thier own tournies (which have prizes)
basic spear training through a plaque or npc
hold in position too long and camera will shake and weakness (players can see this)
bar increases and you can throw past your max 9could be a great throw or a catastrophic failure
furthest throw that hits a target is the champ (other throws are listed)
accuracy top 10 lists for different accuracy ranges
spear wobbles when thrown
canopy collisions in a tree are optional (if we have time)
Client Stuff
Could hit mouse button or key to go into aiming mode
when planed into aiming mode in 3rd person camera is locked into an over the shoulder view and the player is given a crosshair
when in first person mode nothing changes except the player is given a crosshair
random shake from the start gets worse over time
movement makes the shake worse
shake is based on skill / accuracy

60 players not a technical limit just to prevent overcrowding

Character Selection

Click Join or Add

If a new add then throw back into character selection after mode after the Add was complete by the character

In Game Options

Description

Stuff you can do. 

Main Menu 

Press Esc (not mappable) in the client to bring up in game options.  When you press Esc you'll be presented with the following options.

• Quit
• Logout
• Return to Game (Esc)
• Graphics Options
  • Resolution (drop down)
  • Color depth (drop down 16 / 24 bits)
  • Antialiasing (drop down 1x, 2x and 4x)
    • 3D Settings
      • Master Detail
      • Environment
      • Wind
      • Clouds
      • Sun Flare
      • Vegetation
      • Realism (low/med/high/custom)
      • Lansdcape Detail
      • Custom Settings (checkbox "Advanced" tab activated if any settings are set to 'custom')
      • Advanced Tab
        • Clipping Plane (slider)
        • NPC Detail (slider)
        • PC Detail (slider)
        • Lighting Effects (slider)
        • Particle Effects (slider)
        • Water Effects (waves)
        • HUD Display
          • fps (checkbox)
          • lag meter (checkbox)
• Game Options
  • Window Docking
  • When window requires action
  • Blinking
  • Color Change
  • Sound
  • In Hand indicator
• Sound Options
  • main
  • ambient volume
  • effects
  • music
  • voice volume
  • positional audio
  • hw acceleration
• Input Options
  • mouse
    • mouse sensitivity
    • mouse inversion
    • lock the mouse inside the game window
    • for looking everywhere in windowed mode
  • Keyboard Mappings
• Help
  • Contents
  • Search

Esc to main menu

Gameplay

Interacting with the world

chatting

Inventory

Movement

Shortcuts / command reference

Index

Search

Logoff

Quit

GUI Discussion

windows

close

minimize

dock window

dragging to an area creates a semi-transparent copy of the object and it will dock with sticky points like the edge of a screen or the edge of a window

if you drag an object on to another window it will split the windows according to the location (objects on the RH side would get a hor split and on the bottom would get a vert split.

Frames between borders can be drug around and resized

Master frames themselves can be resized

alt click and dragging into a window will create a tab

task bar (only appears if something is minimized)

auto-hide

windows with activity

can blink

text that describes them can change color

can make an alert sound

Compass

overylays the view in upper RH corner

includes a mini-map

In Hand Indicator

In upper LH corner

configureable in options whether desired in 1st, 3rd or at all

Aiming Mode

Aiming crosshair

semi-circle

Unintegrated Stuff

Inventory Mangement

Size

weight limitation (attribute)

double clicking uses default action

drag to hand to weild to and drag to backpack to stow it

slots for places where you can place items (each slot has a weight restriction)

use key to stash items

In Inventory / Equipment View you could drag an item into a slot

have some items flagged as carryable / stowable

marking menus

display and hide keys

Once displayed a list of possible actions are displayed in a circle around (think maya)

When doing a default action but the client isn't sure which action you wish to take then you are presented with a marking menu

User could click on objects and then setup hotkeys except for a use key

Bar - on the way out the player puts their mug on a shelf

Currency

Coins

How Often are rewards recycled

Wagon That comes through to trade with barkeep