Game Mechanics Outline

What needs to be coded

• Drag selection for units
• Marquee box implemented, need to connect the effects of selecting a unit to   Rect.Contains

• Unit movement on meshes that aren’t just planes
• Will need to make use of unitys built in pathfinding tools like navmesh
• Collision detection should also be implemented at this stage to stop units ghosting through buildings and also each other
• Create a test scene first then implement on a refined blockout of the level which contains the major obstacles
• Unit movement when selecting and moving multiple units needs to be tested as well
• Combat system for units
• Shooting mechanics for 2 of the 3 classes should include 3 main properties
• Range
• Rate of Fire
• Damage per shot (also look at damage per second)
• Will need to ensure that units can’t shoot through objects as a shortcut to attacking a unit e.g through the corner of a temple
• Melee class will be similar but without the range
• Other attributes like movement speed and rotate speed are already implemented but need to be defined for each class
• Ensure that units are balanced, START playtesting protocol
• Essential to create fun gameplay
• Will require extensive testing to make sure combat triangle is functional and no one class is overpowered
• Look into ways that the two teams can be differentiated without having and a negative effect on gameplay
• Implement capturable points that generate resources
• Will likely be done through triggers that require the player to have a controller within its radius for a certain amount of time
• Make units cost certain amount of players resources
• Define how much each unit should cost
• Determine whether all units should cost the same
• Refine camera controls
• Improve the camera controls to make it more smooth
• Look into some sort of battle camera (See Rome 2 Battle camera)
• See what is most easy to use whilst also giving a lot of control to players

• Implement population limit preventing players creating 100s of units
• Figure out of how many units would be to many for the map
• Make sure pop cap doesn’t unsettle balance
• Add fog of war
• Determine whether it adds or detracts from the strategic gameplay
• Work out how easy it is to implement with Line of Sight characteristics of units
• Implement basic AI
• Research into effective AI in Unity…
• Create a master AI that can make decisions like a human
• Implement master AI
• Master AI becomes self aware
• Master AI spreads like a virus and infects all interconnected computer devices
• Master AI determines human race as a threat and launches nuclear missiles at human populations
• Human race is decimated
• Only a few of us survive
• We are the resistance