Storyline Continuation - Epilogue, Nights & Tutorial

[viktormmilanov]

Description

This Feature is a continuation of #109. Our team will work on story writing, designing, user testing and implementing the epilogue, intermediate scenes prior to nights and gameplay tutorials. The implementation will be quite similar to current prologue screenplay. Although, more options may be explored for more immersive experience, this may include animations or audio. This feature is especially crucial to the game as it emotionally invest the player into the game.

SubFeature/component

Epilogue: Epilogue may vary depending on the end scenario. -

1. LOSE: Crystal is destroyed and we lose. 2. LOSE: Main char dies and we lose.
2. WIN: Player survives all night and defeats the boss enemy.

Wether the death of main char is an end condition or not. That is, if he will be respawned or the game will end will be user tested before implementation. It will provide closure to the player and should communicate to the player a conclusive end to the storyline.

Night fall scenes: The "before nights screens" will further direct and prepare the player for the combat for the following night.

Boss night scenes: Quite similar to the other night fall scenes but would be more dramatic

Tutorial pop-ups: The tutorial pop ups will serve to help the user along as they experience the game.

Examples (optional)

• All Storyline scenes: The StoryLine screenplay will behave similar to the current Prologue implementation in #109
• Epilogue: Will redirect to the Main Menu Screen or another screen that prompt the user if they would like to play again.
• Tutorial pop-ups: //todo

Dependencies

• For the night scenes to work properly i.e., not restart the game after each night scenes the game should have the save state implemented #221
• For the Epilogue scenes to be triggered, win and lose conditions should exist.
• For tutorials prompts to exist, the feature must exist in the main branch. EDIT: reasonably before deadline.

Cross-team Work

Team 2 may work closely with Team 10 on #207 . As it involve implementation of features that serve similar purpose to player i.e., education player on what/how the key elements in game mean/work.

Milestones

• [ ] User Testing Main Char death (Sep. 19)
• [ ] Epilogue
  • [ ] Design
  • [x] Refine and re-write story (Sep. 15)
  • [x] Complete initial drafts for win and loss endings (Sep. 15)
  • [x] Final design for win and lose endings.
  • [ ] Programming
  • [x] Add epilogue screens classes to the main (Sep. 18)
  • [ ] Trigger the scenes based on the game over condition (see dependencies and user testing)
• [ ] Night Scenes
  • [ ] Design
  • [x] Design drafts for the night scenes
  • [x] Complete final designs for the night scenes
  • [ ] Programming
  • [ ] Add night scene classes to the main (Sep. 20)
  • [ ] Night scene don't restart the game (see dependecies)
• [ ] Boss Night Scene
  • [ ] Design
  • [x] Design draft for the boss night scene
  • [x] Complete final designs for the night scenes
  • [ ] Programming
  • [ ] Add boss night scene classes to the main (Sep. 21)
  • [ ] Boss Night scene don't restart the game (see dependencies)
• [ ] Tutorial Scene
  • [ ] Design
  • [x] Discuss and Finalise the game elements that should have tutorials (Sep. 17)
  • [x] Design drafts for the tutorial screen-overlays
  • [x] User Testing (next day to the task above)
  • [x] Finalise designs for tutorial screen overlays
  • [ ] Programming
  • [x] Implement the screen overlay for tutorial display. (Sep. 26)
  • [ ] Tutorials shows up on main game screen. (Oct. 2)
• [x] jUnit Tests
  • [x] Pushed to main (Oct. 4)

Completion Deadline: Oct 4.

Extras (optional)

• [ ] Implement button (or mouse click-on) in settings that turns off tutorials.
• [ ] Crystal upgrade screens / animations.
• [ ] Add audio tracks to the story line scenes.

Documentation

• Epilogue Building Process
• Night Scenes and story
• Tutorial pop-ups

Members

• Viktor Milanov (viktormmilanov) (Viktor Milanov)
• Rafe Klein (rafe171) (Rafe Klein)
• Rohan Teotia (RohanTeo) (Rohan Teotia)
• Suhas Udupa (suhasudupaa)(Suhas Udupa)
• Aviral Sharma (4vir4l) (4vir4l)

[cholnhial]

Hi guys there's an incoming modification made to the MainGameTutorials. The change allows us to hide the objectives when an achievement popup needs to be displayed. The objectives are then shown again after the popup has timeout. Checkout #288 to see the relevant changes. Hopefully there's no merge conflict. This was a suggestion made by @4vir4l.