Beta Progress Log

Last Sunday (3/16), my wonderful business partner and I sat down in our favorite café and discussed the plans to move Dungeon Colony to Beta. We came up with the following list of high level items.

As I have done before, I will use this blog post to keep track of progress on each of these items. If you want to find out about the progress, come back and revisit this post. There are many sub-tasks involved in each ToDo list item which I'll start adding as we work on them.

Orange = Pending
Blue = Work In Progress
Green = Complete

Last Updated: 04/13/2014

The Alpha-to-Beta ToDo list:

• Music/Sound
• Found and contracted production team for sound/music.
• First set of sound assets are in production & implrementation. 
• Adding new audio engine to configure sound effects and control playback based on map locations. 
• Campaign Map (Pre-Requisite: New Art)
• Creating new game frame for Campaign Map.
• Adding new placeholder for campaign world map.
• Adding Location Buttons that load a level.
• Adding Level Chain for Campaign.
• Adding support to the campaign map to show completed levels & next playable level and hide remaining uncompleted levels. 
• Storing completed level info with user data on server.
• New Art completed (new World Map + new Map Icons). 
• Adding new window for processing world map levels. 
• Adding additional world-map-icon functionality.  
• Level Editor fully functional
• Fixing DropDownLists in Quest Creator.
• Adding Tab-Focus to various controls to Editor Settings frame
• Adding Tab-Focus functionality to DropDownList
• Fixes border shadow when placing granite.  
• Adding Ground tiles to editor tool box.
• Adding close buttons to various tool frames in editor.
• Campaign Levels
• Game Player Profiles
• Creature Character Window for Equipment and Skill Management (To replace the current skill frame)

Task List for new Editor

The following is the list of tasks needed to complete the Game Editor (somewhat in order & some subtasks removed). Note: during development of the game editor, no new updates are being pushed to the alpha version available online. Alpha development will resume once the editor is complete.
 
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The Task List (Last Updated 11/17/2013):
I'll update this blog entry every time I make progress to the editor marking red items as pending and green strike through as completed:

1. Fix all special editor entity placement rules that require map validation . (i.e. torches, doors, etc.) (9/9 Rules Completed + 3/3 SubTasks Completed)
2. Create new image button sprites for Side Menu options.
3. Create logic for UI Buttons on Side Menu.
4. Allow placing of entities in containers.
5. Allow dragging of entities to other places.
6. Allow rotating of entities on map.
7. Add button to show tile types & grid.
8. Allow placing granite inside dungeon.
9. Allow user to set specific features on/off.
10. Map Validator:(Multiple validation items)
• DØNE: Validate air on map (source, spread, ...)
• Deferred: Dungeon Validation
• Deferred: Enemy Waves (can reach dungeon)
11. WIP: Build Level Class & Manager
1. Build Level Chains
2. Store Levels on Server
3. Load Levels from Server
12. Create Entity Editor to edit specific entity attributes.
• DØNE: Build Frame to Display Entity Information.
• DØNE: Extend Entity classes to manually edit entity fields.
• DØNE: Allow editing of Entities already on map or the entity in the Toolbox. Editing Toolbox entities allows placing unlimited entities with the same edited attributes.
13. Build quest manager UI (4 Subtasks)
•  New Quest Frame
• DØNE: Create Dropdownlist Control
• DØNE: Create TextArea Control 
• DØNE: UI Frame controls for setting Quest Attributes
• DØNE: Controller logic for the MVC pattern of UI.
• DØNE: Edit, Delete Quest Nodes
• DØNE: Edit: load quest into form
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• DØNE:Subclass Quest Specifict Attributes
• Deferred: Preview Quest.
14. Build DAG for quest chains.
1. Create Canvas for displaying Quest Nodes
2. Create Quest Node Buttons which can be clicked to open up the Quest Details
3. Allow Dragging of Quest Nodes
4. Allow Dragging of Quest Node Canvas (moves all nodes at once)
5. Connect Nodes which are linked.  
6. Improve nodes (size, info, ...) 
15. Deferred: Extend Research Manager UI (2 Subtasks).
16. Implement the Map Load/Save Screen.
17. Disable certain game frames in Editor.
18. Deferred: Fix game main menu when using editor.
19. Fix home menu to include editor. 
20. WIP: Build Class to store Map as Level on server.  
21. WIP: Build Class to create/store Campaign (level tree)