November 8:

• Actually decided on doing this concept
• We met and did some basic risk analysis.
• Made a timeline of prototypes
• Basic work breakdown study for each prototype

November 10:

• Risk analysis for our physics engine
  • (advantages, disadvantages to doing our own and using ODE)
• Decided to create our own engine
• Worked out the details of our collision algorithm
• Designed an intro/setup menu system (Storyboard.ppt)
• Designed a HUD for gameplay information
• Wrote a bunch of shit in the wiki

November 14:

• Integrated Sean's and Chris's code bases
• Worked out the class structure and a rough UML diagram
• Tested the driving engine on the courses (it's buggy!)
• Until we meet again...
  • Chris will:
    • Make a skeleton project reflecting our UML
    • Context sharing (for textures)
    • File loading
  • Sean will:
    • Continue working on collisions
    • Move collision code into skeleton
  • John will:
    • Make a good camera
    • Start on the input handlers

November 17:

• Integrated our most recent code.
• Added some sounds.
• Now loads starting points from course XML file.
• Loads number of laps from course XML file.
• Added winning condition.
• Documentation, documentation, documentation.
• For next time:
  • Sean will:
    • Make golf cart movement like our first game
    • Implement a hand brake
    • Implement a second cart
    • Cart-cart collisions
  • John will:
    • Create a second course
    • Cart rotation based on momentum instead of wheel rotation
  • Chris will:
    • Work on DirectSound?
    • Create an animatable golf cart subclass of the Milkshape model class

November 22:

• Created presentation for class on Tuesday
• Reviewed some design elements
• For Thanksgiving break:
  • Sean will:
    • Keep working on bullets
    • Implement AI
    • Keep working on collisions
  • Chris will:
    • Networking!
  • John will:
    • Work on kart animation
    • Create second course
    • Heads up display

November 28:

• Integrated our code from Thanksgiving break.
• For next time:
  • Sean will:
    • Keep tweaking collision detection
    • Work on projecticle system
    • Spin outs
  • John will:
    • Finish the second course and make a third course
    • Split kart orientation into kart direction and wheel direction
    • Linking HUD to world observer
    • Look for sounds and music
    • Timer synchronization
  • Chris will:
    • Play around with HUD fonts
    • Tweak shared context shared context / courses
    • Controller and player selection screens

December 1:

• Integrated code
• Tweaked some constants dealing with kart speed
• Changed some of the default cameras
• Discussed problems with our timer
• For next time:
  • Sean will:
    • Bullets
    • Shrink karts
    • Smarter and more capable AI
  • John will:
    • Courses, courses, courses
    • Improve the timer class
    • Add more info to the HUD: projectile notification, etc.
    • Delay when the game starts
  • Chris will:
    • Create destructors
    • Saving and applying settings
    • Networking bugs

December 8

• (Ambitious) Goals for Alpha Release:
  • Implement timestep tree; solve outstanding Timer issues.
  • Integrate Kart customization with gameplay.
  • XMLize Item placement.
  • Fix outstanding issues with projectiles.
  • Fix pause/unpause functionality.
  • Customizable volume control.
  • XMLize Course cameras.
  • Create end-game sequence.
  • Include "Laps to Go" in HUD.
  • Create Help screen.
  • Include projectile in HUD.
  • Create a Boost item.
  • Implement Kart states based on current projectile.
  • Fix the textures on the Sand Course.
  • Fix the "Wrong Way" bug on the Sand Course.
  • Fix GameTimer bug on pause.
• Goals accomplished:
  • Implement timestep tree; solve outstanding Timer issues.
  • XMLize Item placement.
  • Fix outstanding issues with projectiles.
  • Fix pause/unpause functionality.
  • Create end-game sequence.
  • Include "Laps to Go" in HUD.
  • Help screen.
  • Fix the "Wrong Way" bug on the Sand Course.
  • Fix GameTimer bug on pause.

December 9:

• After alpha testing, we need to address the following issues:
  • Work on kart responsiveness, specifically turning and the emergency brake.
  • We also need to work on the AI karts, making them a bit more intelligent.
• We also discovered several bugs that we need to work on:
  • There is some sort of memory leak / lack of garbage collection that causes the game to slow down significantly after a few minutes of play.
  • There's still a bug in the networking code that prevents network play.
  • The game has trouble exiting, frequently crashing in the process.