Multiplayer Alpha

So the crunch is on — now that I have the weapon browser nearly func­tional, next on my list is to get a ‘very’ basic ver­sion of the mul­ti­player oper­a­tional so I can get a pub­lic release out the door.

My list of goals for the MP Test (which is my super-secret inter­nal name for it):

– mul­ti­ple maps (just to demon­strate map switch­ing func­tion­al­ity)
– online pro­files (con­fig­ure dif­fer­ent load out defaults via the con­tent browser, use in game)
– online stats / achieve­ments (in a very basic for­mat)
– leader­boards
– global chat / friends lists

As you may guess, these are some things that we’re work­ing on for GameCore (well, a few are ‘new’, most are already avail­able), so I’m look­ing to cre­ate a demon­stra­tion game for these features.

That’s just the high-level stuff, as far as in-game func­tion­al­ity, what I’m aim­ing for:
– con­fig­urable weapons (via the mod­u­lar weapon sys­tem)
– cus­tomiz­able loadout’s (pre-select / con­fig­ure weapon cus­tomiza­tions & options)
– choose from a cou­ple of char­ac­ters (full char­ac­ter cus­tomize sys­tem is still ‘in progress’ unfor­tu­nately)
– mul­ti­ple teams / sides
– basic team death­match game­play to start, cap­ture the flag & objec­tive — based game­play is phase 2

As you can prob­a­bly tell, I’m spend­ing most of my time focus­ing on the cus­tomiza­tion aspects of the game. This is pri­mar­ily because it’s the most ‘exper­i­men­tal’ of the fea­tures that I’m look­ing to add. The basics of get­ting the game­play modes and so on imple­mented are ‘known quan­ti­ties’ for the most part. That is, I know how they’ll be done, whereas new and/or exper­i­men­tal fea­tures are a bit of grey area, so it’s impor­tant that I get them fig­ured out sooner rather than later.

So, yeah that’s my thoughts at this point. More later ;}

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