TerraTower

An augmented reality physical tower defense inspired game with a splash of capture the flag. The game engine is in Java and the clients are made in Unity for Android or iOS. A description of the game is here.

• Brainstorm ideas

• Have a mini-game to battle between territories

• See other people on the map

• Have a land mines

• Audio help

• Audio chat

• Drop random bombs from the sky

• TODO:

• Performance

  • Server needs to be more robust
  • The game state update must be sped up drastically
    • Profile a multi-player simulated game to find where the hotspots are
    • Make the network connections faster
      • Log the timing of the network calls
  • Put some kind of interlock in the client so people stop mashing buttons for refreshes

• Client U/I

  • Android client needs a decent vertex color shader
  • Place a person where you are on the map in addition to the camera
  • Consider combining upload buttons into one
  • Have someway of doing a network check before uploading
  • Add sound feedback
  • Lower the altitude of the camera

• Game Play

  • Check the bomb and tower timings. They seemed to be too fast
  • Bombs should blow up an area corresponding to physical radius, not number of squares
  • Territory should grow in a circle better
  • Have a news feed of in game events so you can see what happened
  • Have a designated start and stop time for the game session
  • Have a points system that is more than just territory
  • Allow people to assign themselves a color
  • Announce change in leaderboard

6/20/14

• set version to v0.0.1
• Checked in the Unity client files and everything else from the end of ICS 163

6/13/14

• Made the bombs look bigger
• Fixing the territory caching on the server/engine side
• Fixed the client colors so they are chosen from a vibrant palette

6/12/14

• We played a big game with 26 teams for the ICS 163 final exam
• Fun

6/11/14

• We ran a playtest at UCI and got the following feedback:
• It was fun
• The pacing of the game was good
• It was hard to see the screen in the sun

6/3/14

• Implemented the Tower Territory growing

6/2/14

• Finished implementing the Place Tower event

5/30/14:

• Went and fixed a bunch of stuff in luci-utility to support log4j v2
• Set up the framework for the gamemap

5/28/14:

• Laid out the initial project in Eclipse.
• Added "Maven Integration for Eclipse" to Eclipse to manage the project
• Converted the project to a Maven project
• Added a dependency on commons-configuration in Maven
• Added a dependency on luci-utility: https://github.com/djp3/luci-utility