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Recycle system

Recycle system allows the user to automatically generate a drop of water and load it into the droplets of the item bar after pick up three identical items (such as three pieces of water). Because of the defect of the previous code (the user has no effect after picking up the water and food in the game), in the original design, the user cannot "picking up the water and chicken drumsticks". Therefore, in order to realize that users can pick up water and chicken legs, we have designed different shortcut keys, and users can switch by themselves to pick up different items.

The specific operation is:

  • press 4 to use the additional reward item.
  • press 5 change to water mode, all collected items will be converted into water
  • press 6 change to food mode, all collected items will be converted into food.
  • press 7 change to kit mode, all collected items will be converted in the kit.

For example, when a user wants to pick up water, he or she needs to press 5 to switch to water mode.

It can be seen that the water droplets are full and the recycle bin is empty at the top left corner of the game page.

As the game time progresses, the water droplets have been used up, and the user has collected 3 water (you can see that the recycle bin is about to be full).

After the recycle bin automatically generates water and uses it, you can see a new drop of water appears in the upper left corner of the game, and the recycle bin is in a state of being emptied immediately.

User testing for the scoring system was done by an online zoom meeting. Testers experienced the system through the remote control of zoom functionality. The test time for each user is guaranteed to be within 20 minutes.

Design Software

Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 Procreate(iPad)

Style Guide/Design Standards

Pixel Grid Resolution

Style

Colour Palette


Colours chosen for Recycle system

Because the sidebar of the recycle bin will show which items the game player has collected, the color spectrum only shows the main color when the recycle bin is empty.

Others

Recycle system basis for decision

1.

The reason for not choosing this is that the design of this recycling bin uses colours to represent items (red represents medical kits).

2.

Compared with the final version, this design has no background colour, and the design is single. The icon background of the final version is the same as the floor colour.

**3- 4 **

Compared with the final version, these two are not as detailed as the final version. Combined with the results of user testing, the final version was finally selected.

Final version

Gameplay

Home

Main Character

πŸ‘Ύ Obstacle/Enemy

Food & Water

Pickable Items

Game achievements

Game Design

Emotional Goals

Game Story

Influences

Style

Pixel Grid Resolution

Camera Angle and The Player's Perspective

Features Design

Achievements Screen

Achievements Trophies and Cards

Music Selection GUI

πŸ‘Ύ Obstacle/Enemy

 Monster Manual
 Obstacles/Enemies
  - Alien Plants
  - Variation thorns
  - Falling Meteorites
  - FaceHugger
  - AlienMonkey
 Spaceship & Map Entry
 Particle effect

Buffs

Debuffs

Buffs and Debuffs manual

Game Instruction

[code for debuff animations](code for debuff animations)

Infinite loop game system

Main Menu Screen

New Setting Screen

Hunger and Thirst

Goals and Objectives

HUD User Interface

Inventory System

Item Bar System

Scoring System

Props store

BGM design

Sound Effect design

Main game interface

Invisible ceiling

New terrain sprint 4

New game over screen sprint 4

Code Guidelines

Main Character Movement, Interactions and Animations - Code Guidelines

Item Pickup

ItemBar & Recycle system

Main Menu Button Code

Game Instructions Code

πŸ‘Ύ Obstacle/Enemy

 Obstacle/Enemy
 Monster Manual
 Spaceship Boss
 Particle effects
 Other Related Code
 UML & Sequence diagram of enemies/obstacles

Scoring System Implementation Explanation

Music Implementation

Buff and Debuff Implementation

Score History Display

code improvement explanation

Infinite generating terrains Implementation Explanation

Game Over Screen and functions explaination

Buffer timer before game start

Scrolling background

Multiple Maps

Invisible ceiling

Rocks and woods layout optimization

Magma and nails code implementation

Background Music Selection

Chooser GUI Implementation

Chooser GUI Logic Persistence

Guide: Adding Background music for a particular screen

Achievements Ecosystem - Code Guidelines

Achievements System

Achievements Screen

Adding Achievements (Guide)

Game Records

DateTimeUtils

History Scoreboard - Score Details

Listening for important events in the Achievements ecosystem

Food and Water System

Food System Water System

Hunger and Thirst icon code guidelines

Asset Creation

In Game Background Music

User Testing

Hunger and Thirst User Testing

Main Character Testing

Buffs and Debuffs Testing

Buff and Debuff Manual User Testing

Game Instruction User Testing

The Main Menu User Test

The New Button User Test in Setting Page

The Main Menu Buttons User Testing

Hunger and Thirst User Test

Infinite loop game and Terrain Testing

Item Bar System Testing

Randomised Item Drops

Recycle System Testing

Scoring System Testing

Music User test

https://github.com/UQdeco2800/2021-ext-studio-2.wiki.git

πŸ‘Ύ Obstacle/Enemy

 Obstacle testing
  - Alien Plants & Variation Thorns
  - Falling Meteorites
 Enemy testing
  - Alien Monkeys & Facehugger
  - Spaceship Boss
 Monster Manual
 Particle-effect
 Player attack testing
  - Player Attack

Inventory system UI layout

Props store user testing

Achievements User Testing

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

Sprint 4

Items testing

Player Status testing

Changeable background & Buffer time testing

Main game interface test

Invisible ceiling test

Game over screen test sprint 4

New terrain textures on bonus map test sprint 4

Buying Props User Testing

Testing

Hunger and Thirst Testing

Main Character Player

Achievements System, Game Records and Unlockable Chapters

DateTimeUtils Testing

Scoring System Testing Plan

Distance Display Testing Plan

Musics Implementation Testing plan

History Board Testing plan

Rocks and woods testing plan

Sprint 4 terrain tests

Items

Item Bar System Testing Plan

Recycle System Testing Plan

Game Engine

Game Engine Help

Getting Started

Entities and Components

Service Locator

Loading Resources

Logging

Unit Testing

Debug Terminal

Input Handling

UI

Animations

Audio

AI

Physics

Game Screens and Areas

Terrain

Concurrency & Threading

Settings

Troubleshooting

MacOS Setup Guide

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