Meeting Minutes
January 14th, 2019
Meeting open at 5 pm, room P-263.
Project Demo Displayed
- Basic side-scroller
- Looped gameplay
Plans for semester
- Club Rush Showcase
- Valentine’s Bake Sale
- Game Tournament
- Officer Elections
Plans for Ruin Project
- Deadline: 4/25/2020
- Production: Gama Dev’s itch.io page
Project Deliberation/Discussion
November 19th, 2019
Meeting open at 5 pm, room P-263.
Started with open discussion.
No more labs this year.
Two more meetings this year
- November 26th
- December 3rd
- Pot-luck
- Relax before finals
Project Deliberation/Discussion
November 12th, 2019
Meeting open at 5 pm, room P-263.
Project Discussion
- Tasks
- Tiers listed in git: Ruin-game
- Tiers split up based on Programming, Art, and Music
- List what Tiers you will want to work on/working on in Discord in proper chats.
Lab
- This Thursday, November 14th at 5 pm, room N-114.
- Open lab to work on project.
October 22nd, 2019
Meeting open at 5 pm, room P-263.
Game Tournament
- Too many time restrictions on the 19th.
- Moved to February 4th, 2019 aiming for the same times ~1-8pm
Labs
- Use lab times to work on game.
- Thursdays, bi-weekly.
- First week of November.
Job Fair
- Wednesday, October 30th: 9 am - noon; R-01
Project Discussion
- Discussed roles
- Team leads
- Discord roles
Project Focus
- Level design (staged)
- Character animations
- Combat mechanics
- 2.5-D
- 2-D character, 3-D background or vice versa
- Inventory system
- 4-5 slots
- Equals less items
- Specific/designated slots?
- Tools/Weapons
- Primary & Secondary slots
- Ethereal weapon (relic)
- Spells
- Bag of souls (health system)
- On HUD
- Certain creatures give souls
- Soul Phylactery
- Store souls at home base (phylactery)
- If Phylactery is destroyed, only get one ‘soul’ left
- Character can hold only so many souls (1-5) in a crystal
- Radius within respawning
- Cannot take crystal some places with you
- Are we the bad guy?
- Big baddie is Paladin
- Day-night cycle
October 15th, 2019
Meeting open at 5:10 pm, room P-263.
News
- Santa Fe is starting evacuation drills.
Workshop
- 3-D Blender
- October 17th at 5 pm in room N-114.
Game Tournament
- November 19th
- Smash Ultimate
- Tekken 7
- Mario Kart 8
- Food?
Semester Project
App Winner: Ruin by Lucas!
- Game discussion
- Functionality
- Teams: Artists, programming, music
- Design
- Style
October 8th, 2019
Meeting open at 5:00 pm, room P-263.
Workshop
- 3-D Blender
- October 17th in N-114 at 5 pm
Game Tournament
- Dominic has not reserved the room yet: planning for 19th of November.
- Jesse still has to make the flyer.
- Mario Kart 8
- Tekken 7
- Smash
Game Plans
- “Ruin” game
- Fantasy Survival
- 2-D side scroller 2/ 3-D aspects
- Based of Terraria, Kingdom: Classic, Noita
- “God Complex” game
- Top-down RPG with Labyrinth
- “Git Gud” app
- Fitness; documents exercise
- Chart made based on fitness test
- Level-up! Gain experience based on workouts.
- Rhythm-based 2-D Platformer game
- “Quest” app
- Social
- Friends would give you “quests”
- Do quests to get exp and level up
- “Raid” encounters = social event, monthly
- Future-seeing fighting game
- See red outline, know where enemy is going to swing
- Longer you last, faster it gets
October 1st, 2019
Meeting open at 5:03 pm, room P-263.
Officer Introductions to New Members
Workshop
October 3rd, Introduction to Java in N-114 at 5 pm.
Game Plan
- Game proposals will begin next week.
- Dominic has prepared a format to follow when proposing a game.
Game Tournament
- Fall: November 19th, 1pm - 8pm. Dominic will check/reserve R-001.
- Less casual games, more tournament/competing games
- One station with tourmanent games for practice beforehand
- Games
- Smash Ultimate
- Mario Kart
- Tekken 7
- Casual Set-up Games
- Board Games
- Ultimate Chicken Horse
- Stick Fight
- Jackbox
- Speedrunner
- Prizes
- Gift Cards
- Amazon
- Gamestop
- Best Buy
- Check with local businesses for donations
Logo
Teal with console: Have “Hello World” in console
Scholarship Opportunity
September 24th, 2019
Meeting open at 5:12 pm, room P-263.
Transfer Club
- For students who are looking to transfer to UF.
- Club is made up of SF students and UF students.
Five Star
- Community Service - 16 hours left to make as a club
- Paperwork
Workshops
Thursdays at 5 pm, room N-114
- Next lab will be October 3rd: Intro to Java
Game Ideas
- Puzzle games
- Script- or menu-based RPG
- “Baba is You” alike
- Snow-environment game
Dates
- Fall Volunteer Fair
- Wednesday September 25th, 11 am - 2 pm
- S-Breezeway
- Vendor Day
- Thursday September 26th, 11 am - 2 pm
- R-001
Scholarship Opportunity
September 17th, 2019
Meeting open at 5 pm, room P-263.
We do not use Canvas anymore, but rather we will be using Git and Discord.
Reminder that SOOT is tomorrow at 4 pm in R-001.
Issues with Student Government, 5-Star on hold(?).
Lab discussion:
- Intro to Java due to Unity using C# and Java.
- Intro to Blender/Blender Basics
- Learn how to make a game before going into making a game.
Project Ideas:
- Puzzle Inventory
- 3-D Basic Game
- 2-D Platform with 3-D aspect
- Gator Royale
Logo designed by Jesse:
- Rather have the console command line rather than a game controller.
Game Tournament:
- FIFA
- Smash Ultimate
- Mario Kart
Links:
August 27th, 2019
Meeting open at 5 pm, room P-263.
Meetings will be weekly.
Discussed lab meetings to be bi-weekly after Club Rush.
- Club Rush will be Sept. 11th & 12th from 11 am - 2 pm.
Workshops to be discussed at a later date once attendance is larger.
Logo discussion, voting perhaps next week when more members are in. Most members were leaning towards teal, though design wasn’t specifically chosen.
After first few computer labs, plan for ideas ahead.
Tours and/or Panels
- OPIE Software
- Flight of Flight Games: Moved to NC, willing to skype in.
- Get into contact with Chromatic
- Others?
Game Tournament
Brackeys Tutorials on YouTube for Unity.
Game-making challenges, weeklygamejam.com