CS490 Supervised Undergraduate Reserach

Computer Game Design - Spring 2003

Assignment #5 - Due March 26th
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Meeting in your groups, complete the development of your group game ideas
over Spring break. Working from the ideas and visual motives (i.e stories, 
narratives, etc.) that you and your team members developed in class last week, 
create a main character, storyline, setting or general game idea which is the
result of your groups' interests. 

Once you have a central idea, each team member should feel free to develop 
various elements of the game as they see fit: characters, storyline, setting. 
You do not need to specify a single, unified game idea in detail. Rather, each 
team member should be able to contribute specific characters, settings or objects 
to a loosely-defined central idea. Divide the work among team members in your 
group as you see fit.

To record and document the development of your ideas, each group should 
submit a one-page summary which includes a description of the setting, storyline,
narrative and/or main character for the central idea of your game. This may or 
may not include specific characters, objects or settings developed by each 
team member seperately. Ideally, your group should include some prelimiary 
artwork along with the summary.

Groups should be prepared to demonstrate and discuss their game ideas
with the other groups in class after Spring break (March 26th). (This is not a final
presentation, you will just be sharing your ideas with the other groups to get their 
feedback).

** Note: If your group would like to get a head start on game development, feel 
free to assign and/or start the technical tasks of developing your games 
according to the natural interests of each team member. These tasks include: 
Graphics output, Physics & collision detection (if any), Character objects (as 
Finite State Machines), Environment objects (if any), User input, Artwork, etc.