Tank Tournament

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Tank Tournament

• Team Eduard Papa, Michael Bridges, Steve Eklund,
  
• Volodymyr Nestoyanov, Yong Ji
• Advisor Dr. David Breen

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General Description

• 2-Player Tank game
• Recreate the look and feel of Arcade-style games
• 3D Environment
• Rough Terrain with hills, water, mud, trees
• Areas that affect gameplay
• 3D graphics and audio
• Support for DirectX compatible controllers

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Gameplay Goals

• Attract gamers who want to take a break from
  playing modern life-like games, lay back, and
  challenge their friends in a tank duel
• Bring back the fun of classic games such as Armor
  Ambush to the PC platform with
• 3D Graphics and Audio
• Improved controls

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Project Goals

• Put our knowledge and skills to work to create
  professional-looking product, including
• Installation package
• User Manual
• Follow formal software engineering methods
• waterfall model
• object-oriented implementation
• documented source code
• Deliver the product on time and according to
  requirements document

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Scope and Perspective

• Academic project for a team of undergraduates
• First game project
• Focus on functionality
• Satisfy academic requirements of Software
  Engineering Workshop
• Create a product that can be expanded and
  improved to a professional level
• Future versions can reach stores and make profit

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Game Overview

• 2-Player
• Sudden Death
• Single-Player Practice

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Map Selection Screen
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How starting positions are determined

• Tanks are placed
• randomly on preset
• pairs of spawn bases.
• i.e. If player 1 is
• placed on base 2,
• player 2 is placed on
• the other base 2.

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Tournament Mode

• Two players
• Multiple hits for a round
• Multiple rounds for a match
• Timed rounds

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Sudden-Death Mode

• Activated when round or match draws
• Smaller and flat battlefield
• Starts back-to-back
• First to shoot wins
• No time limit

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Single-Player Practice Mode

• Single player
• Stationary target tanks in random places
• One target at a time
• One hit for a target
• Practice result

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Gameplay

• This section describes the requirements of game
  options, movement, firing, health, and other
  factors that affect gameplay.

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Game Options

• The following options must be set before a match
  
• How many rounds must be won in order to win the
  entire match 1, 2, ..., 10 default is 3
• How long each round lasts in minutes 3, 5, 10,
  15, 20, Infinite default is 3
• Toggle Sudden-Death ON/OFF for every round that
  draws default is OFF, only for last round
• The following options can be set at any time
• Sound Effects volume 1, 2, ..., 10 default is 5
  
• Music volume 1, 2, ..., 10 default is 5
• Toggle Minimap ON/OFF default is ON

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Movement

• The tanks can move forward and backward, as well
  as rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise. The
  movement backward will be limited to a lower
  speed than forward movement. The turret can be
  rotated clockwise and counter-clockwise.
• The turret will rotate slower than the base
  (hull) of the tank, so that tanks can dodge and
  maneuver around shots when they find themselves
  in vulnerable positions.

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• Speed of the tank will be affected by different
  terrains in the following ways
• Normal terrain, such as grass, will allow the
  tank to travel at its default speed
• Paved roads will increase tank speed above the
  default value
• Forests, mud, and water will decrease tank speed
  below the default value
• These exact values will be fine tuned during play
  testing

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Firing

• Tanks will attack using a fire-and-forget
  method, meaning that after a shot leaves the
  cannon, it will be its own object on its own
  path, no longer able to be controlled by the
  player. The player will be able to change the
  tank's course of movement and still see the shot
  moving in its own independent direction.

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• Time delay between consecutive shots.
• Tank hit will cause base to rotate.

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Health Replenishment

• A single health pack will spawn at random times
  in random locations. If it is not taken within a
  certain time, it will just respawn in another
  random location and random health size. A pack is
  spawned in a random location, so a player cannot
  camp in a single location to protect a health
  pack from their opponent

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Functional Features

• The TANK!

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Tank Effects!
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3D Battlefield

• Detailed terrain

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Interactive Obstacles

• Mud, Water and Trees, oh my.

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DirectX Graphics and Audio
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DirectX Control
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Nonfunctional Requirements/Testing
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System Requirements

• Hardware
• CPU Intel P3 800MHz
• RAM 256 MB
• Video 16 MB
• Sound Card
• Hard Disk 500 MB of free space
• Two USB port game controllers
• Software
• Windows XP
• DirectX9 runtime library
• Most recent drivers

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Testing Process
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Unit Tests

• Modified Condition-Decision Coverage
• Control Flow Adequacy Criteria

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Integration Test

• I/O flow between different system layers

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System Test

• Functionality
• Performance
• Usability (GUI)
• Documentation (user manual)

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Beta Test
The fun phase!!!
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User Acceptance Test
System Test Cases
User Acceptance Test Cases
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• Any Questions?