Content and Asset Index - A Dramatis Personae

[jelster]

Track the various piece of content that need to be created for the game. Separate issues may be created to track and capture details for individual items. This will be kept updated as need for new assets is discovered.

List of actors and objects

Characters

• Rig Operator / Truck Driver / Player Character
• Dispatch (only ever heard over the SB)
• Space-Construction workers
• Other space-traffic drivers

Set pieces

• Launching station setting
• Destination landing zone/station
• G.O.O.S.E catapult
• Super space-caps (capacitors)
• Space-roadways
• Space-road signs

Creatures and Vehicles

• Space-Truck+Space-Trailer
• Space-Amoeba
• Assorted Space-highway traffic vehicles
• Space-Potty
• Space-DriveThru

• Environment

• Star
• planets
• Solar wind/storm
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Space-Junk

Items/Objects

• CB Radios ("SquawkBox")
• Bladder Meter (health)
• Hunger gauge (mana-ish)
• Minimap/route progress

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3D Objects Models

• [ ] Semi-truck (ext.)
• [ ] Semi-truck cab (int.)
• [ ] Cargo container (ext.)
• [ ] Mass driver launcher/catcher
• [x] Space-junk (asteroid)
• [ ] Space-beast
• [ ] Space-porta-potty
• [ ] Drive-thru space-diner ❓

Textures

• [x] Skybox
• [ ] DDS Environment for PBR (may need to be separate from skybox)
• [ ] IBL light maps
• [x] Height/bump maps for platforms, asteroids

2D Art (inc. sprites)

• [x] Splash screen
• [x] Menu backgrounds
• [ ] Button images
• [ ] UI Icons

Fonts (don't have to be different

• [x] In-game copy
• [x] UI displays
• [x] Score lists

Sfx

UI

• [ ] Menu item onfocus, onblur
• [ ] Menu button click - neutral
• [ ] Button click - affirmative
• [ ] Button click - negative
• [ ] Menu screen enter/exit

In-Game

• [ ] CB Radio "squawk box" click, noise
• [ ] Truck cabin engine, environment noise
• [ ] Launch capacitors charging/discharging
• [ ] G.O.O.S.E catapult launch
• [ ] Solar Storm warning
• [ ] Space-Amoeba (beast) ❓
• [ ] Space-Rock impact
• [ ] Space-porta-potty invoked/used
• [ ] Space-sandwich eaten
• [ ] Scoring event - positive
• [ ] Scoring event - negative

Music

• [x] Main title, "The Space-Trucker's theme" - also used in other menus
• [x] Launch planning ambient
• [ ] In-flight ambient
• [ ] Game Over - failure
• [ ] Game Over - success

[jelster]

Some online CC asset libraries:

https://kenney.nl/assets/space-kit

TBC

[jelster]

Lots of potential uses for the PG models. For the space-trucker, would it make sense to maybe just use The Dude?

[jelster]

Wikipedia's Lexicon of Trucker terminology has some useful flavor nuggets