Development/Milestone:2008.01

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This is the first milestone of OpenAnno which should show the initial features of the game. The main features are discovering a small island and building a small town on it. If you have reached all conditions of the population group "sailors", a message appears and says that you have reached the end of this first release. It asks you if you want to end the game or continue playing.

Contents 1 Milestone 2008.01 checklist 1.1 Infos 1.2 Features 1.2.1 Major features (must have) 1.2.2 Minor features (optional) 1.3 Components 1.3.1 Menus 1.3.1.1 Main menu 1.3.1.1.1 Options 1.3.1.2 Main GUI 1.3.1.3 Ship menu 1.3.1.4 Branch office inventory 1.3.1.5 Building menu 1.3.1.6 Building information 1.3.1.7 Splash screens 1.3.2 Texts 1.3.3 Dialogs 1.4 Materials 1.4.1 Graphics 1.4.1.1 GUI and menu graphics 1.4.1.2 Terrain 1.4.1.3 Buildings (expandable) 1.4.1.4 Ships 1.4.2 Sounds 1.4.3 Music 1.4.4 Cinematic

Milestone 2008.01 checklist

Features

Major features (must have)

• Drawing an isometric map in diamond-form
• Creating a small map with an island in the middle and a few trees on it
• Make the map scrollable by contact with the screens borders with the cursor in 8 directions
• Selecting the ship and make it move by clicking somewhere in the sea
• Create a small and simple GUI with functions for...
  • building a branch office while the ship is selected and near the coast
  • creating buildings/streets on the map
  • destruct any buildings
  • observing the actual inventories
• A collision free checker while building
• Building any houses of the population class "sailors"
• The buildings create resources and send them to the branch office by acre or cart
• To build is only possible if enough resources are in the branch office

Minor features (optional)

• Make the map zoomable by pressing a key/button or using the scroll wheel
• Make the scrolling dynamic by using a touch-sensitive area
• It should be possible to rotate the buildings in four directions while building

Components

Menus

Main menu

In this first release, it's a simple black screen with buttons on it. On the buttons, there are different text messages with different functions:

• New Game: Pure and simple to start a new game (no special dialog yet)
• Options: Opens the options dialog (see below)
• Exit: self-explanatory

Options

Only a few settings like changing the resolution or switch to the full-screen-mode.

Main GUI

It should be as simple as possible in this first release. We only use black semi-transparent PNGs with text on it. In this release, we have the minimap optional, so there are only the resource-fields on the top of the screen and a button at the bottom to open the building menu.

If you click on a ship or a building, a small infobox appears. It's also simple in design to avoid much effort in this early development state.

Ship menu

It's a small box with a disabled button to build the branch office. If the ship is near the coast, the button should be enabled. After that, the branch office hangs on the cursor and waits for building.

Branch office inventory

That is a simple text-based window with a list of all available resources in this milestone and the amount in the branch office.

Building menu

Like the inventory but with buttons containing the title of the buildings in this milestone. With a click, you can build the building on a position of your choice by dropping it off from your cursor.

Building information

A small dialog which contains all needed informations like the name or the production.

Splash screens

This screens are shown while loading the main menu and the map.

Texts

No texts needed yet!

Dialogs

No dialogs needed yet!

Materials

Graphics

GUI and menu graphics

[under construction]

Terrain

[under construction]

Buildings (expandable)

Name	Function [class]	Concept art	Concept model	North	East	South	West
Outpost	branch office [I]
Storage tent	store [I]
Town square	Market place [I]
?	Church [I]
Signal fire	lighthouse [I]
Tent	residential building [I]
?	Weaver [I]
?	Lumberjack [I]
hunter's tent	Hunter [I]
herdsman's tent	Herder [I]
fisherman's tent	Fisher [I]
?	Raft builder [I]
Lookout	Tower [I]
Fence	Wall [I]
Trail	Street [I]
Bole	Bridge [I]

Ships

[under construction]

Sounds

No sounds needed yet!

Music

Everything what we have at the moment.

Cinematic

No films needed yet!