GamePlan.txt

Andrew Busch - abbusch@wpi.edu
Yahel Nachum - ynachum@wpi.edu

Our team name is "Macaroni & Cheese at IHOP"

The game will be called IHOP Simulator October 2015

The closest genre our game will fit is the maze game genre.

The game will be like packman with added challenges, where the player must reach certain locations in order to stack blocks on top of each other, open doors to reach new areas, and gain various powerups to help them stay alive and gain points. That is at least the idea right now.

Techinical challenges will be designing  a path for the player to walk, like how pac man has walls. Also, designing the enemy AI to be difficult, but counterable will be another challenge. 

Significant artistic aspects will be making the player understand what each of the objects are. The blocks, enemies, and main character must all be clearly identifiable, and understandable. The enemies wil be one to 2 characters tall, and 1 character wide. the blocks will be 1 character tall, and 4 characters wide. The main player will be at most 5 characters by 5 characters.

Art Assets: (width, height, frame #)
Hero (3,3, 3-5)
Enemy (3,3, 2)
Pancake (5, 1, 1)
weapon (2, 1, 2)
wall (1, variable, 2)
floor (variable, 1, 1)
ladder  (1, variable, 1)
powerUp (1, 1, 3)

Sounds:
power up sounds
death sound
weapon sound
stack sound
background music


Object list: (for implementation purposes)
hero - calls on map
enemy - calls on map
weapon
map - on map returns when a position is on the map
	floor
	ladder
	connector
block - falls to next block shelf
blockShelf
blockStack - increments counter when stack is full
nextLevelEvent - when all stacks are full, next level event goes to map, loading next map
points
button/wall
powerUp

Andy
	map
	map objects
	powerUp
	block stuff
Yahel
	Hero
	Enemy
	button/wall
	block stuff

map, map objects, hero, enemy done Oct 2nd.
block stuff, Power ups, button/wall, done by Oct 8th.
complete level design, music/sounds done 13th