Plan for Peer Programming - Drew Reed + Jishnu Singerisu

[drewreed2005]

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For our JavaScript-based peer programming project, we're planning to make a game similar to the Higher or Lower game but with movies. Instead of the user guessing how many Google searches a movie gets, the user must estimate the rating provided to the movie by ratings sites like Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb.

The player will score points by guessing correctly and getting many correct in a row. Like Kahoot, the faster the player answers, the more points he/she will win. As an incentive, we're considering creating a store in which the player can select new mouse cursors to play the game with using their points or power-ups that can be used during the game.

Movie data will be fetched from the TMDB API. It doesn't innately support random movie generation, but we found a support issue that provides a couple ways this could be done. The current plan is to use the /latest option and generate a random number between 1 and the maximum page number to pick a random movie.

Code Must Have Data:

Define and store data for the game, such as:

• [ ] A variable for the user's points (outside of and within game)
• [ ] A variable for the number of correct stats guesses made in a row (within game)
• [ ] A variable for the mouse that is being used on the page currently (whole page of site)
• [ ] Timer variables that track how much time has passed since the two new movies have been presented (within game)
• [ ] Variables for HTML elements that will be filled with data pulled from the database (whole page of site)
• [ ] Data pulled from the API will be separated into its own separate variables for use
  • [ ] May be continuously stored as data for reflections after rounds on correct/incorrect guesses

Must Have Input:

Implement user input handling, including:

• [ ] Choosing in menus: buttons to allow choice between playing the game and visiting the cursor/power-up shop
• [ ] Choosing in game: clicking between the two movie options for popularity
  • [ ] Affects output: receiving points
• [ ] Choosing after movie selection: continue for potentially more points or quit to the menu to shop

Must Have Output:

Display game-related information and feedback to the player, such as:

• [ ] Rendering menus with buttons corresponding to possible actions
• [ ] Constant display of the current player point score, streak and timer during gameplay
• [ ] Shows point gains after correct selections, detailing score bonuses
• [ ] Choosing new cursors and/or power-ups will result in them being stored for the user's future use

Input Must Impact Output:

Ensure that user input directly affects the game state and output:

• [ ] Choosing menu options leads to different menus/game based on selected button
• [ ] Choosing correct movies gives the player points
• [ ] Choosing multiple correct movies in a row, or quickly, gives more points
• [ ] The player can choose cursors to purchase in the shop with points, resulting in points being taken away and the mouse cursor being changed according to the user's selection

Must Be Focused on JavaScript:

• [ ] Develop the game primarily using JavaScript
  • [ ] Fetch with JavaScript fetch()
  • [ ] Use of asynchronous functions for sequencing
  • [ ] All game variables stored and edited in JavaScript
  • [ ] Basic game functionality based on JavaScript functions
• [ ] Use HTML and CSS for styling

[jm1021]

This is descriptive and detailed on a Game and covering key technical elements. In a short or longer term project I often find a sketch or workflow helpful. For example here is something I worked on this in the summer ...

The purpose of my picture was to show request and response.

The detail of the plan is great, but it starts to get to be a lot to read and comprehend.

[drewreed2005]

[jm1021]

Very nice!

John

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