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Table of Contents Escape Flyer Section I: Project Overview Team Personnel Production Team Design Team Programming Team Art Team Communications Team Sound Team Executive Summary Gameplay innovations Section II: Story, Setting, and Character Story Player Character, Flyer Section III: Combat Power-ups and Power-downs Capcom Squadron Bear is Driving Visitors Snag Embrasure Section IV: Controls Section V: Interface The Camera HUD Menus Main Menu Section VI: Asset List Art Environmental Objects Animation list Environmental effects Interface Art List Interface Sounds Music Section VII: Technical Summary Single-Player Web Section VIII: Miscellaneous Section IX: References

Copyright Weather Vane Productions

• Brian Dunne
• Laura Pilkington
• Moose Repole
• Garrett Therkorn

• Lead Designer - Moose Repole
  
• Powerup Designer - Garrett Therkorn
  

• Lead Engine Designer - Brian Dunne
  
• Power-up Functionals - Garrett Therkorn

• Lead Artist - Laura Pilkington
  
• Supporting Artist - Garrett Therkorn

• Communications Liaison Officer - Brian Dunne

• Sound Creator - Moose Repole

• High Concept - Move character forward avoiding and crushing blocks
• The Hook - Power-ups are humorous and time constraints make the game stressful and exciting
• Story Synopsis and Setting - A small little creature in an unexplained land must go. Forever go.
• Genre and Scope (number of missions) - Randomly generated platformer levels of increasing difficulty
• Visual Style (2D, 3D Isometric, etc) - 2D Obstacle avoidance
• Engine - Current version written in Phaser 2.0.3
• Core Gamplay (What does the player do?) - Move the mouse around the screen moving to the right and avoiding blocks
• Single-player
• Game Features:
  • Power-up/power-down list
    • Overlaying darkness
    • Speed boosts
    • Cracked block destruction and bears
    • Move toward blocks
    • Missile fire

Artistic techniques and achievements

• Project Scope - casual platformer
• Number of power-ups/power-downs - 5
• Target Audience - All ages and skill levels, CS 325 students who appreciate their tribute
• Delivery Platforms - Web
• Custom sounds

• Backstory:
  • You are a flyer, who has been trapped in a bizarre land of square blocks. You must fly past obstacles and use power-ups to stay ahead of the Deadline, which purges any non-square objects it comes across.
• In-game story (What happens during the game)
  • You fly through the various locations of square world, chased by the deadline, until you finally manage to leave this strange world.
• Environments
  • Trippyland
• Trippyland.
  • General description:
    • The background shifts as you pass, pulsing in a slightly hypnotic, hallucinogenic pattern.
  • Physical characteristics
    • The Deadline takes the form of a bar of lightning.
    • There is a trippy, shifting background following you.
    • Obstacles take the form of cracked and uncracked stone blocks.
  • List of levels that take place in this area
    • This is the level.

• A absurd flying mouth with eyeballs
• Suddenly thrust into an alternate dimension with no towel, Flyer makes his way away from the Deadline
• Actions modified by power-ups and power-downs

• All power-ups and power-downs are obtained via ? blocks and randomly selected

• Speed boost
• Flyer gains a rocket pack
• Short duration

• Flyer takes the form of a driving bear
• Cracked bricks are plowed through immediately
• Short duration

• Fire a row of missiles in front of Flyer
• Missiles break through all blocks
• One set of missiles per power-up

• Movement only when the cursor is over a block
• Short duration

• World gets darker
• Effect permanent

• Mouse following

• Follows Flyer through the level

• Progress bar

• Pre-loader

• Enter game
• Power-up information

• The Deadline
• Bear driving
• Rocket pack
• Bullets
• Darkness overlay
• Loading bar
• Loading background
• Game background

• Blocks
• Cracked blocks
• Power-up blocks

• Flyer flying
• Flyer death

• Plasma background

• Menu buttons

• Button noise
• Hit block noises
• Death noise
• Various power-up noises

• DO WE NEED THIS? CAN WE?

• Google Chrome is recommended
• High speed Internet always helps

• YET TO BE NEEDED BUT MAYBE LATER

• CS 325 - Spring 2014 Tribute to all final games
• The Hitchhiker's Guide the The Galaxy by Douglas Adams