Tutorial - Team 6

[katherinegray97]

Description

A walk-through tutorial first-time players can use to learn how to play our game. It will consist of pop-up GUI elements that explain certain features and how the player can interact with them. The player should be able to quit (and possibly revisit) the tutorial at any stage.

Dependencies

• At least part functionality of all major features in the game

Milestone

List of features you intend to have done and in Master by Checkpoint 3

• [x] Generic tutorial GUI element design
• [x] Implementation of a generic tutorial GUI element
• [x] Written tutorial script for each main feature in the game including how-tos for:
  • [x] Player movement/controls
  • [x] The base portal
  • [x] Enemies
  • [x] Resources
  • [x] Trees
  • [x] Worlds
• [x] Implemented GUI elements for each of the above features
  • [x] Player movement/controls
  • [x] The base portal
  • [x] Enemies
  • [x] Resources
  • [x] Trees
  • [x] Worlds
• [x] Fully connected walk-through functionality at the start of the game, including the ability to exit the tutorial at any point

Members of group 6

• Jordan Holder (@jholder)
• Dion Lao (@dionode)
• Katherine Gray (@kgray)
• Kryssi Zhao (@ruoran)
• Julien Tran (@julien.t)

[katherinegray97]

Update following studio Week 10 Spoke to tutors about the best way to implement each GUI tutorial element - whether to have multiple classes or not. Decided that a single GUI element with images for content would be easiest/nicest to implement. Had discussions with team 8 to plan how we can improve all of the main menus/guis before starting to design the tutorials so that we won't need to redesign this feature before CP3.

Things to do this week:

• Jordan: implement generic tutorial pop-up at the start of the game, implement a keybindings overview tutorial accessible at any point in the game.
• Katie: focus on design, potentially work with Team 8 to start redesign of main menu

[katherinegray97]

Start of Week 11 Update Tutorial has been fully designed and implemented. It appears automatically when you start a new game. Users can click through slides, click back to a previous slide and skip the tutorial altogether.

Things to do this week:

• Jordan: merge current work to master, remove "previous" button for slide one of tutorial, change "next" button to "finish" at last slide of tutorial, implement functionality that allows a player to return to any slide in the tutorial by clicking the help button in the pause menu.
• Katie: work out why the tutorial text is hard to read, fix this, work with Peter Condoleon to redesign the main menu, update colours/fonts of all other menus.

[katherinegray97]

Week 11 update following studio session

• Work merged to master
• Removed "previous" button for slide one of tutorial, changed "next" button to "finish" at last slide of tutorial
• In game menu redesigned so that the user can re-visit any page (including the controls page)
• 3D blender image of an enemies vs players scene created, ready to be made into main menu page

Work to do this week:

• Decided to take on redesign of all menus so we will be designing the images for each button, changing backgroud colours etc.
• Finish main menu page (this just involves combining the blender image and a background and making sure the buttons look good)

[katherinegray97]

Start of Week 12 update Work done:

• Redesigned all buttons and backgrounds for pause menu
• Improved current version of the main menu page. This has still not been completely finalised as we are waiting on some enemy sprites to be completed before we can add them in

Work to do before Wednesday:

• Currently experimenting with changing current UI skins for the rest of the main menu

[katherinegray97]

Week 12 Studio Session Update Work done:

• Main menu background image finalised (thanks to the 3D blender image made by Team 5)
• Main menu buttons all moved slightly to accommodate the background scene
• UI skins fixed to reflect colour changes in the menu
• Fixed slight bugs with "back" and "next" buttons. This involved creating new images and changing buttons to ImageButtons

Work to do this week:

• Slight changes to tutorial slides to reflect recent changes in gameplay (Katie)

[katherinegray97]

Start of Week 13 update Work done:

• Changes made to tutorial slides to reflect new functionality (how to sprint etc)
• User testing completed (see https://github.com/UQdeco2800/deco2800-2017-rocketpotatoes/wiki/Tree-learning,-Attack-Trees,-Main-Menu-Tutorial-Resources-Styling)
• In response to user testing made all font sizes bigger and increased size of actual tutorial
• Added final touches to reflect newest designs of tree sprites

[katherinegray97]

Work completed overnight Minor bugs relevant to this ticket were fixed by completing the following tasks:

• Sorting out a menu hierarchy
• Changing "Singleplayer" to "Single Player" in Main Menu