Team Meeting 2019.1.27

Topics discussed

• Roll-call of active/in-active members.
• Combat
• Story
• GitHub

What's being worked on:

• CBruce
  • Map and Screen classes basically done
  • want to refactor to utilize Table & Pos data classes
• Cowboy
  • Going to be working on prototype maps
• Byteme8bit
  • Character class revamp
• BJ
  • Screen for changelog from main_menu Screen
• PinkChicken
  • collaborating on Combat mechanics

Combat

• Byteme8bit is going to refactor base classes for Character, Player, and Mob to clear up inherited properties/methods
• Everyone approves of Development plan outlined here in wiki page

Story

• High-fantasy world, might have main player character from real-world playing in virtual environment
• Spells, so assumed medieval fantasy
• Tone should be relatively serious, but with humorous elements. Light on slapstick: high-brow humor vs low-brow humor
• PG-rated
• Game inspired by "Eden's Gate" - Protagonist transported into a virtual, fantasy-world game and has to adopt to living by game rules.
• "Name of the Wind" -
• Want to have future brainstorming discussions to hash out more details.

GitHub

• Discussed some of the features on GitHub project site: issue/bug tracking, milestones, wiki pages
• Potential project website through GitHub(pages.github.com)

Other

• Talked about possibility of making game playable online, through HTML website.
• "BeeWare" - port Python to any platform
• Animating in terminal possible? Pokemon-style battle-screens