August Kickoff w Full Team - AlexisBliesener/Bewitched GitHub Wiki

Meeting Title: August Kickoff

Date: 08/03/2025

Time: 2 P.M - 3 P.M.

Location: Discord

Attendees: All members except Eishi

1. Agenda

  • Begin Meeting (5 min)
  • Bewitched overview (10 min)
  • Big game changes (10 min)
  • GitHub overview (10 min)
  • pre-production timeline (5 min)
  • first tasks (5 min)
  • questions (10 min)
  • Wrap up (5 min)

2. Discussion

Project Overview

Key discussions:

  • The Base Player
    • movement
    • 2 attacks
    • health and damage
  • Possession
    • possess any enemy except bosses
    • health of enemy decays while possessed to promote moving between between enemies
    • we want the player to possess enemies, base character is weak
  • Enemies
    • multiple enemies for each level working together
    • AI attacks
  • AI movement
    • aiming to give enemies a behavior and a real feel
  • Rooms
    • upon entering a room the player will be locked in
    • defeat all enemies to exit
  • Levels
    • 3 levels
    • 3 variations of each level
    • randomize level selection from variants
    • leads to a “random” feel with the handcraftedness of a level designer
  • In Game Upgrades
    • Risk of Rain 2
    • This is the closest system to how we will be approaching how upgrades works
    • Collect upgrades from the ground to increase the player's abilities and powers to make them stronger
    • Drops from enemies for pick up or salvage
    • You can either choose between 2 different upgrades or salvage the item
    • Or you can salvage the upgrade, refilling the player's health stackable
    • Upgrades can be collected more than once to increase the effect of upgrades
  • Pity System -The longer you go without an upgrade, the higher chance you'll get one

Changes made from pre-production to now

Key discussions:

  • 3rd Person
    • Mimics Triple A
    • Showcases the work of all our artists better
  • No More protecting your own body
    • Aligns with our aim for fast paced gameplay
    • Fits better into a 3rd person game
  • Events/Bosses
    • Last room in each level to escape the to the next
    • These events will take place in a special room with unique mechanics
    • Each event will host one "Boss"
  • Rare "Build Changing" upgrades
    • 3 of these
    • Aims to change how the players approach the game drastically
    • These can be found in the GitHub under Rare Upgrades.

Github Overview

Key discussions:

  • Wiki:
    • The wiki holds a lot of information and all the documentation for our game
    • GitHub is used by many industries, and allows us to link all of our documentation together.
    • For onboarding: Please read the wiki page that Alexis created for learning how to utilize git and its documentation.
    • Also find your role in Onboarding, the see what you need to read under Required Reads!
    • All meeting slides will be posted close to each each meeting, along with notes taken.
  • Timelines
    • Each sprint is weekly, so make sure to look at your responsibilities early and get a jump on your tasks!
    • Each discipline has a project board to see what tasks need to be done
    • These include what they are, when they need to be done, an estimate on how long they will take, etc.
    • These tasks can be moved to different sections to mark where they are in progress. Alexis will take tasks out of the backlog and assign them. After that, it is each person's responsibilities to move the status according to where it is in the process of being completed. Make sure to update your logged hours, so that we know how long they took, and so that Team Leads can get better at estimating how much time these tasks take to complete.
    • Once a task is completed, move them over to In Review after making a pull request. A Team Lead will review your work and ask for changes or approve these changes. Once it is fully approved, you may move said card into complete.
    • Whenever you create a card, let Alexis or a Team Lead know, so that we may make estimations and assign it a priority.

Action items:

  • First Tasks
    • Assigned to: All doing pre-production – Due by: August 10

Timeline and first tasks

Key discussions:

  • Each person has a few tasks lined up in the sprint backlog on your respective boards!
    • Take a look at what needs to be done, and ask questions of a Team Lead or Alexis if you are not able to understand what is being asked or what the goal is. Sometimes something is not clear, but there may be an answer inside of the wiki about how the game has been planned out. Take a look around there if you are confused at first.

3. Additional Notes

  • Make sure to read up inside the project wiki to find everything about the game if you have questions! There is a lot of good stuff there, and the Team Leads have spent the past month making sure as much as possible is planned out.