Powerpoint from B-Term

1. IN THE DISTANT FUTURE, WHERE HUMANS ARE GONE AND
ONLY ROBOTS REMAIN, THE REDBOTS AND BLUEBOTS
PREPARE TO DEFEND THE HONOR OF THEIR ROBO -
OVERLORDS IN THE RUINS OF POST-APOCALYPTIC
JAPAN.
HOWEVER, DUE TO AN UNFORESEEN CODING
ERROR, THESE ROBOTIC SOLDIERS HAVE CHOSEN TO
ARM THEMSELVES WITH THE TRADITIONAL WEAPONRY
OF THEIR CREATORS – KATANAS, BOWS, SPEARS, AND
STAVES.
WHO SHALL BRING GREAT HONOR UPON THEIR MASTER?
WHICH NOBLE ROBO-WARRIORS SHALL TAKE UP THE

2. BUSHIDO BOTS
Developed by Wyatt Gray,
Shane Daley, and Jeffrey Thomas

3. THE PITCH
Mix the gameplay of sidescrolling beat-em-ups…

4. THE PITCH
…with the replayability and competitiveness
Of a multiplayer game...

5. THE PITCH
…infused with stylized art and an of f sense of humor.

6. HIGH CONCEPT
The player controls a
Japanese robo-warrior…
…in multiplayer futuristic
Sengoku-themed battles.

7. GAMEPLAY
 Played on a wired Xbox controller plugged into a PC
 Networked 12-player gameplay
 Perhaps Xbox Live Arcade
down the road

8. ART ST YLE AND THEMING
 Flash Style
 Sengoku Period (Samurais and Ninjas)

9. THE OBJECTIVE
 Red and Blue teams battle
for control of the level
 Stand near a flagpole to
raise your banner
 Raise your banner to the
top to capture a territory

10. THE OBJECTIVE
Each raised banner earns your team points.
First team to 100 points wins!

11. COMBAT
 Earn gold by defeating other players, and spend it on weapons
and armor
 Works like counterstrike: “Buy when you spawn, lose it when
you die”
 Respawn when killed
 Five weapons, five armors
 Each weapon and armor has unique stats/ability

12. WORK FLOW
 Art Assets created in flash
 Converted to symbols
 Exported as PNG Sequences
 Uploaded into Unity Folder stored inside SVN
 JT works his code voodoo
 Stuf f appears in-game

13. SHANE TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE’S DONE
 Lead Designer
 Suggest Features
 Postulate
 Artist
 Character and Weapon Concept Art
 Animation Concepts
 In-game Character Art
 In-game Character Animations

14. SHANE TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE’S
LEARNED
 Don’t adhere to concept art too strictly
 Don’t get too attached to features or art
 Make everything in Flash a Movie Clip
 Don’t spend too much time on any one thing

15. CONCEPT ART

16. GAME ART- STATICS

17. GAME ART-ANIMATIONS

18. GAME ART- ANIMATIONS

19. WYATT TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE’S DONE
 Design Stuf f  Art Stuf f
 Design Document  Environment Art
 Gameplay  HUD Elements
 Producer Stuf f  Menu Art
 Feature Schedule  Sound Design
 Work Logs  Foley
 Agendas  Editing
 Blog  Sound Hunting
 Workflow Planning
 Communication
 Cutting Features
 Presentations 

20. ENVIRONMENT ART

23. WYATT TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE’S
LEARNED
 Design
 Keep it simple, build on it later
 Production
 Workflow planning super important
 Facilitating open discussion incredibly useful
 Art
 Everything takes longer than I expect
 Create concepts first
 Use references for everything
 Get the job done, leave details for later

24. JT TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE’S DONE
 Clean, low -jitter, low -lag server
 Basic combat mechanics

25. JT TALKS ABOUT WHAT HE’S LEARNED
 Authoritative server design
 Client-side prediction and interpolation

26. WHERE THE GAME IS (IN DEV)
 Attacking, death, respawning
 Picking up gold
 HUD Elements (Hit Points, Gold Counter)
 Animations ready to be applied in -game
 Loadout menu ready to be applied in -game
 Multiplayer servers

27. WHAT WENT WELL
 Good communication
 Scheduling clear and concise
 Pipeline/workflows well -optimized
 Flash into Unity = Cool Art + Streamlined Networking
 ex2D program provides massive workflow shortcuts

28. CHALLENGES WE FACED
 Figuring out workflow took a long time
 Challenges with scale of art assets from Flash to Unity
 Little documentation on working between Flash and Unity
 Little documentation on 2D in Unity
 Essentially, Flash -> Unity is our biggest challenge, but will
hopefully pay of f with vastly superior network play

29. WHAT LIES AHEAD
SHANE
 Attack animation for other weapons
 Animations for abilities
 Armor Art
WYATT
 Environment Art
 Weapon/Armor ability visual ef fects
 Menu Art
JT
 Win/Loss Conditions
 Multiple weapons and armor
 Networking Housekeeping

30. BUSHIDO BOTS
Developed by Wyatt Gray,
Shane Daley, and Jeffrey Thomas