White Mod – Development

Participants

Bob Chatman | Nandeep Mali | Mike Newall | Stefan Schwarzien | Seth Crawford
Dave Doyle | John Ingato | William Gardener

Topics

• Files on Assembla
• Post Mortem
• Imminent Release
• Elizabeth Implementation
• Release Cycle Update
• Mod DB/Blog contents
• New Level Names
• Potpourri

Files on Assembla
We discussed the attachment of files to tickets, specifically models.
It was decided that all models and textures should be placed in the assets folder within an appropriately titled folder.
Need to add this to the modeling orientation as well.
<@Bob_Gneu> I saw there are a few OBJ’s being attached to tickets
<@Bob_Gneu> is there underlying reason for this?
<@Bob_Gneu> as in why not use the Assets folder?
<@Bob_Gneu> or WIP?
<@MikeNewall> yeah, need to make it clear that we should add them to the assets folder
<@MikeNewall> well finished models to the assets and any others to the wip folders
<Seth> lol, computer exploded, thats what I get for trying out the windows 7 beta
<@Bob_Gneu> You could use the Assets folder to keep track of the nearly finished models as well
<@Bob_Gneu> okay, so that is something that will be handeled in the beginning of Elizabeth’s life then, with the doc
<@MikeNewall> yeah
<@Bob_Gneu> kk
<@Bob_Gneu> Sounds great

Post Mortem
This is being formally assigned today, start work if you wish. I would suggest you aim for 2-3 pages and make sure to proof read them because i will be reading them very closely, probably multiple times. Also breaking the doc apart into the many different subjects (tools, development, suggestions, etc.) is optional.

Release Date (should we push it ?)
Releasing it makes it easy for us to say "look, its there we achieved" but it is currently a shoddy product if we cant play online
we need a comprehensive test
We can always add stuff with patches later
<@Bob_Gneu> releasing it makes it easy for us to say "look, its there we achieved" but it is currently a shoddy product if we cant play online
<@MikeNewall> As long as we get the bug fixed i dont see any reason why we shouldn’t
<@Bob_Gneu> well, i am actually thinking about ignoring the bug
<@WGardner> something is better the nothing
<@Bob_Gneu> exactly
<@Bob_Gneu> we can always release sub versions as the month progresses, and use this as a chance to accumulate a few testers
<@n9986> then thts still an incentive
<@Bob_Gneu> This is where you all come in
<@Bob_Gneu> we need a comprehensive test
<@Bob_Gneu> Moreover, we need to find alternatives
<@Bob_Gneu> the problem is in network code
<@Bob_Gneu> and its in whitfields camera
<@WGardner> I thought he tweaked that
<@Bob_Gneu> Playing the game over the net is proving to be shoddy
<@Bob_Gneu> he has, quite a bit
<@Bob_Gneu> but that was before nano went on a testing spree
<@Bob_Gneu> this is something that needs to be corrected for though.

Elizabeth Implementation
Implement Three and BioMega
All weapons should be implemented (can use the ut3 weapons as long as the game is set up nicely)
aim for ~8 maps in playable form (don’t all have to be completed for Elizabeth)
More maps, less detail
AI Objectives need to be made
id like nano and stef to be working together on the weapons if at all possible

No status Reports
We did not receive status reports from the following people
Will, Whitfield, John, Dave, Chris, Matt, Reiji

Release Cycle
Release at the end of the month rather than every four.
we have monthly goals alternating between alpha and beta.
<@Bob_Gneu> i think we need to get into the habit of releasing at the end of the month then we can change it
<@Bob_Gneu> i dont expect leaps and bounds
<@Bob_Gneu> but four months is absurd for the way things are going
<@Bob_Gneu> that said
<@MikeNewall> so we dont have goals as such, we just release content as and when it is ready ?
<@Bob_Gneu> we have monthly goals
<@Bob_Gneu> alternating between alpha and beta
<@Bob_Gneu> alpha the end of this month
<@Bob_Gneu> i dont want to call it a beta with a clear bug in it

Moddb & Word press
Everyone should have themselves on the moddb group, so we can show off the group as a whole.
We should also get everyone setup on wordpress.

New Level Names
Mythras – Terr
Cronus – Urban
gavannon – Lightdrive
<@MikeNewall> Crap i need to learn the new level names.
<@Bob_Gneu> Mythras – Terr
<@Bob_Gneu> Cronus is daves bridge map
<@Bob_Gneu> Gavannon is the monster in the factory

Other Stuff
UI Addition so we can monitor the score, no matter how irritating it is.
The leads need to make a twitter account. This will let us stay on top of what we are each doing as a team.
Here are some of our accounts.

• Bob – BobGneu
• Nandeep – miniorb
• Stefan – pixallerated
• Mike Newall – WhiteMikeNewall