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cs4140 Notes: 10-31 What's Next

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What’s Next
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  • Finish out basic features.
  • Advanced feature teams / projects

Sample Content
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  • Actually make login work
    • Get email to work with SMTP and/or an API.
    • Also build invite links which can be shared and skip email authentication.
  • Two zone designs
    • Plan out a full adventure zone.
    • End goal: What constitutes zone completion?
      • Example: A vampire has enthralled and kidnapped the mayor of a small town. You need to entire the vampire’s castle and resule the mayor.
    • At least 8 stages to get there, with at least 4 different types of
      • You start in the basement, stairs up are guarded by giant spider.
      • Need to fight rats to get spidersbane sword.
      • Need to collect disenthrall spell from the library.
      • Need to cast spell on Mayor.
      • Mayor won’t leave until you complete three-part quest.
      • Can’t fight vampire directly, but need to scare him away with crucifix collected from chapel.
      • etc.

Assign these to teams.

Advanced Feature
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  • Our final exam block is Dec 12th
  • You’ll be doing a presentation on the great feature you developed with your team.
  • You need a team, a target feature, a plan to demo it (probably a demo zone).
  • Let’s pick teams.
  • Want to have 2-3 distinct teams. We’ll have some admin work to do as well as dev, since this is software engineering.

Add assignments:

  • Report: Major Feature Plan (Nov 7)
  • Report: Week 2 (Nov 14)
  • Report: Week 3 (Nov 21)
  • Report: Feature Complete (Dec 5)

What’s needed to build on?
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  • Brainstorm.

What features might be neat?
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  • Brainstorm.
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