GET  AWAY  

Timebox 4 Presentation


MEET THE TEAM



Quentin Bloomfield 

Dinosaur AI
General Scripting



Keegan Donnelly

Player/Character Controller
Testing
Scrum Master



Jacob Grealey

Environment
Procedural Content


Zach Knickerbocker

User Interface
Crafting & Item Backend


Nate Niederkorn

Dinosaur AI
General Scripting


Sean Peck

Character Interaction
Sounds

HOW IT WORKS


You're the victim of a tragic plane crash.

You must manage your health, hunger, etc.

Fend off the dinosaurs inhabiting the island.

Collect the necessary resources to escape.






 Interface Updates: Inventory 

 Items can be destroyed, used, consumed, or  equipped. 




 Interface Updates: Stats 

 A stats screen has been added (hold tab to view) 

 Does more damage, but can't cut down trees. 

 New Weapon: Spear 


Crafting 

Updates


Added new recipes.

Small art modifications.

 Pickup Items In Environment 

Items that can be picked up now highlight. 
Drift wood, rocks can be picked up on the beach. 








 Pickup Items In Environment 

 Collect berries from bushes. 

Campfire

Improve mental state.

Sleep to pass time.

 Sector Based LOD

 Activates/deactivates sectors of static objects. 

 AI Improvement 


 Script refactoring. 
 Optimized collision avoidance. 
 Frequency of raycasts reduced. 
 Other miscellaneous optimizations. 



 Pack AI 


Group of dinosaurs represented by 1 object.
Dinosaurs spawn as player approaches.
Despawn dinosaurs when player leaves.
Manage dinosaur's attributes.

 Winning The Game 

 Construct a raft from materials you've collected. 

 Use the raft to escape to freedom. 






 Loading Screen Added 

 Displays during game world generation. 


 Losing The Game 

 The game is lost when your health depletes. 

 Need to start from the beginning. 

Updated State Diagram



 Goals for Next Timebox 


 New weapons (e.g. Torch). 

 Drops from enemies 

 More dinosaurs (some peaceful/herbivorous) 

 Flocking A.I. for some dinosaurs 

 Objective based roaming of Pack A.I. 

 Add more levels of detail to LOD system 

 Increase environmental variety 

 Additional camera and sound effects.

 Starting cinematic/sequence 

Get Away

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Get Away

The ultimate dinosaur island survival adventure.

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