The NetWars Game Design

The idea is that you're a 2d spaceship in a box that has a shield. You can shoot the shield as a weapon. But if an enemy's shield hits you without your shield attached or expanded you're dead. I don't know if I'll add in a time limiter to the shield preventing a person from always leaving their shield up. I'm saving that for when I can test out the game play.

My hope was to eventually get it to a point where I could set up basic networking, and make it a multiplayer game. I just discovered Box2D (5/26/08) So I'm currently fine tuning that integration. I realize the utilizing 3D processing is overkill but I did not want to use sprites as I wanted to become more familiar with 3d graphics processing.

Controls

Keyboard:WASD
Mouse: Left-Click fires Shield, Right Click Restores Sheild.
360 Gamepad:Left Analog applies Force in that Dir, Right trigger fires, left restors.

To Do/Wish List

• Fine tune Box2D integration: I think there is a ghost in my Box2D world.
• Impliment Scoring/Death system
• Clean Up Direct Input
• Replace Linked List - Currently stolen from "Programming a Multiplayer FPS in DirectX"
• Improve Comments - I'm still developing my preferences.
• Move DirectX Materials to the SceneObjects so they can use individual Materials
• Multiple Players (Maybe 2nd 360 controller?)
• Implement Command system (mainly for Networking)
• Networking
• Make the Game Fun
• Simplistic AI using Command system?
• Game State System - (Main Menu, Host or Join, Game, End Game/Game Score)
• Work on Game Dependancies and testing of dependancies.
• Port to XNA - Migrate to 360
• Squeeze in a Ling Ling Reference

Please note this is a work in progress, so things should be changing on a daily basis.