1. Cosmic Conflict Presented by Team B Jason Wagner Zhaohui Ning
Timothy Spicuzza
Michael Vernier
Joseph Handzel
Eric Stegemoller

2. Game Concept Single/Multiplayer Team Based
Fast paced spaceship battles
Defense of mothership
Single Player campaigns
Script driven

3. Genre and Aspects Space flight-simulator RPG aspects
AI driven ships and defenses
RPG aspects
Experience gained through kills and wins
Upgradeable ships

4. Game Play Fly around and shoot at other ships and mothership Win/Lose
Death of the mothership
Yours / Enemy
Player dies 5 times

5. Questions?

6. Technical Aspects- Controls
Pseudo-Flight controls
Thrust Controls
Forward/Backward
Strafe

7. Graphical Elements
Motion Blur
Particle Effects
Models

9. AI Aspects Pursuit behavior Evade behavior Mothership attack
Complex differential equation solving and log(n) solution for the traveling salesman problem. (Yeah, Right!!!)

11. Networking Aspects Not in this version Auto-file updating
Time constraints – too complex
Auto-file updating
Voice-Over IP
Server – Client Topology

12. Sound Elements Engine hum, music Tried OpenAL Moved to FMod
In space, so the player can’t hear anything that is going on
Tried OpenAL
Did not work on everyone’s PCs
Moved to FMod
Haven’t had any compatibility problems

13. Scripting Aspects User definable ships, guns, missiles etc.
User can define all aspects
User can use own models
Scene Loading
Player profiles
Saves exp points, upgrades, ships

14. Create Scene
Name = Scene1
Skybox = GameEngineMaterial/SkyBox/AsteroidField
Area = 10000
NumofTeams = 2
Team = 0
NumofShips = 20
Ship = TheKillerShip
(…)
MotherShip = Mother1
SpawnLocation =
Team = 1
Ship = ThePebbleShooter
MotherShip = Mother2
SpawnLocation =
Asteroids = 1000
Location = Random @

15. Physics Aspects Rigid body physics Bounding box (or sphere) collision
Contact Reporting
Contact state manager / collision reporting

16. Particle Effects Ogre particle scripts Explosions Weapon trails
Ship damage
Engine flares