Timeline

Day 1: 10 hours

2006/07/09

• Plan the game features
• Plan the timeline
• Draft out Menus/UI
• Base filesystem setup
• Program initialisation
• Texture Loading
• Menus
  • Splash
• UI
  • Button
  • Choice Input
  • UI Loop
  • Text Input
• Menus
  • Main menu
  • Settings - lots of time spent in video modes
• Variables System - lots of time spent here
• Menus

Day 2: 5 Hours

2006/07/10

• Level class - collisions are slow as expected. Will do a quadtree later if needed.
• Client/Server/Game class
• Base Entity
• Asteroid Entity
• Ship Entity
• Level to Entity management
• Basic Game Loop
• Player View/Hud
• Entity Events

Day 3: 4 Hours

2006/07/11

• Commander View
  • Entity Picking
• Initial networking code
• Iniital client connection
• Iniital server

Day 4: 4 Hours

2006/07/12

• Server - loading a level
• Connect to Game
• Client can spawn near HQ

Day 5: 14 Hours

2006/07/13

• Network physics
  • Turning, Moving around
  • Firing
  • Collisions
• Console
• Commander view scrolling
• Commander view radar
• Player Orders
• Commander can place buildings
• Game logic - Buildings
• Fixing an annoying bug
• Laser Gun
• Laser beam effect
• Player has armour and shields
• Player can die
• Players time out

Day 6: 3 Hours

2006/07/14

• Projectile Gun
• Fix dead/ghost ship bug
• Particle Effects