10-6-14

At the Meeting

• We discussed what the game should look like

  • All plants

    • Have health unit "rads"
      • as a plant gains more rads, their damage potential increases
      • too much radiation kills the plant
    • Plants have a radiate(x, y) function much like droid's operate(x, y)
      • result of radiate() is based on the context in which it's used

  • Plant Units

    • Mother plant
      • One at each player's "base", large radius
      • goal: kill enemy's mother plant with your plants
    • Choker Weed
      • can uproot, move to another location inside spawn radius
    • Soaker Weed
      • soaks up radiation from rad pools to provide buff to teammates
    • Bumble Bee "healer"
      • can move around
      • bool move(x, y) checks if the bee can move to position (x, y)
      • collect radiation from plants, in effect healing them
    • Spawner Weed
      • can spawn new plants within its radius
    • Redwood
      • large range, can't deal much damage

  • Other units

    • Rad Pool "Sludge"
      • has storage, radius properties
        • some pools may have small radius and lots of storage, or a large radisu and not much storage, etc
        • varying levels of density
      • while inside rad pool, plant gains a buff, but plant takes damage
      • are a finite resource: produced at the beginning of the game, and once they're gone, they don't regenerate

  • Players have "spore" currency which are used to spawn new plants

  • We need to come up with cool, appealing names for units (like ORBITAL DROP!)

Action Items

• Pay your ACM dues!

Reminders

• Testers meeting Fridays at 3:00 pm in CS 213