Project Schedule

Week 1	Discussion and Division of Labor
Week 2	Familiarity with tools
Week 3	Milestone 0 Completed
Week 4	Milestone 1 Completed
Week 5	Milestone 2 Completed
Week 6	Milestone 3 Completed
Week 7	Milestone 4 Completed
Week 8	Spec freeze! No new features to be added.
Week 9	Only beta-testing and bug fixing.
Week 10	Game release (June 2nd)

Milestone 0

~~Have project specification done (by April 9th).~~
~~Communication Layer minimally functional (send/receive/create/join).~~
~~Server able to calculate client views of the world.~~
~~Client able to interpret user input and draw the current state of the world.~~
~~Minimal object hierarchy completed.~~
~~Blobs can move on a featureless plane.~~

Milestone 1

~~Client able to change camera views, and turn light on.~~
~~Improved model of something (preferably R.J. Oxul, himself).~~
~~An initial implementation of collision-detection (bounding boxes).~~

Milestone 2

~~First pass at Oxul-world physics model implemented.~~
~~Oxul able to jump.~~
~~Land deformations implemented~~; some scenery added.
~~Most models and animations completed.~~

Milestone 3

~~Oxul world physics polished and complete.~~
~~Sound effects and background music finished.~~
~~Friendlier UI.~~
~~Improved models.~~

Milestone 4

~~Game rules tweaked and coherent.~~
~~All models/animations finished.~~
~~Complete set of models finished.~~
Voice communications work.

Milestone Infinity

Multiple levels.
More cooperating/competition (with ``Prisoner's Dilemma''-style tradeoffs).
Lots of world objects and puzzles.
Make millions selling our game.
John Carmack asks to license our game engine; we politely decline.

Last modified: Mon Jun 8 19:39:49 PDT 1998