Attendance:
Jordan
Maria
Evans
Bryan
Rory
Sirus
Sean
Andy

MONSTERS:
Tomahawk Fox Like
Bat/deer/hawk-Man Like
Trash Raccoon/food monster
Squirrel Behemoth
Sand Turtle
Flying Airplane Squirrel
Moose Car (creeper van)
Broken Glass Bird
Wooden Park Ranger
?Smoke Bear
Pirate’s Cove/Sailor (wooden, except leg) Kinda funny
Skunkenpine Like
Mole-man with earthworm arms
Bear with tree on back (exploding pinecones) Like
Daddy long leg man/slender man Love, maybe even mini boss or “heavy” enemy
?Poopy plumber
Door-man Lol
Tractor-farmer Centaur Love
Toaster-turtle
Maple leaf Dragon (salamander/ maple leaf wings/shoots burning maple syrup) Love
Mountain lion/rabbit (cabbit) Like
French-toast man
Chickadeer Weird, but like
Traffic Cone Man

TRAPS:
Home-Alone Traps
Kitchen Knife Pit
Oven Bomb
Trashcan Lid/Baseball Bat/Egg Beater
Electrical Fire Poker Like
Lobster traps (fall into pit of lobsters) Favorite of all
Rope on wood flail Like, and would also like to make it work like a tether ball trap
Ceiling fan/Backpack/Jetpack
Seagull Bombs Animal ability yes, trap no
Exploding Bear Trap Like
Venus Banana Trap What? But like
Ball-Chucker Ammo Bombs
Red Sox/Yankees Bomb
Potato Launcher Like
BBQ-bate Trap Like, maybe a combo bear trap and grill would be fun
Millinocket Stink Bombs (paper mill) Like
Maine Coon Cat-in-a-box Schrodinger’s Trap
Lamp Maine Coon Lamp cat weapon in a box (cat of cat tails)
Lawnmower Blade/Frisbee Like, check Wingstick in Rage
Air-compressor/launcher: household ammo
Saw blade launcher
Car-zooka
Table-saw trap
Exploding RC cars Like
Snow blower chariot
Diet coke/mentos/glass grenades Like
Swinging waffle log trap Like
Christmas tree light whip
Toaster Bomb
TV/Radio-based destruction

FEB 15 2012 NOTES !!!!

Attendance:
Jordan
Ryan
Sirus
Ryan
Clay
Sean X.
Zak
Andy
Hong
Rory
Vincent
Secretary: Maria

GAME PLAY:
Sean X.’s drawing explanation: (see forum for further details)
Night cycle/Tower defense element of the game
Rectangular space
Build walls and upon them for sniping
RV and generators
Materials/supplies for robots used to maintain their health
Animals can recover themselves
Woodsman helps you build your trees and shrubbery, etc.

Contradiction: does this set of ideas make you just an observer/helper?
Is this too much of an RTS?
Would you want a combination of towers and units?
How do we want to play this game?:
Traps:
Holes
Falling items
Trip-wires

Classes:
2 classes with sub-classes:
Differences between classes:

First Classes: Choose Engineer or Park Ranger
Secondary Classes: Woodsmen (close-range) or Marksman (long-range)
Robot or Animals
Robots and Animals are equivalent to each other
Would there be bonuses for choosing one over another?

You chose your class and play accordingly, making sure the classes are different
Expand the tutorial to explain the differences between he two classes

Skill Trees:
Does the main character have health?
What happens when you die?
You get carried back to your RV/timed respawn
No love-interest feature
Parents dropping you off say: Goodbye son or daughter? (Add name)

Ryan:
Robots, tower, and player: elemental damage
Andy:
Passive and active skills

Other concerns:
Mondays are just for meetings of group leaders in the CML and Wednesdays are for everyone

FEB 8
Attendance:
Jordan
Ryan
Sirus
James
Bryan
Rory
Max
Evans
Sean X.
Vinent
Hong
Sean
Kevin
Zak

Total of 15 votes:
Maine-9 votes
Space Shark-6 votes

Agenda Item 1:
Announced game
Game should be shippable/functional by the end of the semester
Scheduling will adjust based on time needs

Item 2:
Split into teams and discuss with their group. Learn things about each other like skill level with media and schedules, as well as what you think your team needs to accomplish and when.

Item 3: Team Leaders Announcement of Time for Meeting:
Programmers: Monday after the PSG meeting
Sound: Research stage/find them on the forums
Story: As much of Saturday as possible and a possible Friday night meeting (located in Chadbourne)
Art: Meetings between Max and Hong/art also on the forums

Story prep: brainstorm on the forums
Art prep: come up with ideas/sketch
Programming: add potential members to group

If you are interested in other groups, go to their meetings.

Discussion Notes:
Further ideas for the story can be posed to the NEW IDEAS on the forum.
Will the game be sold on STEAM or bonus content there?
Style? Exploration/Tower Defence
Perspective/View? Top down for travel/Side for entering houses

FEB 6 NOTES

Attendance:
Kevin
Sean X.
Hong
Andy
Evans
Ryan
Clay
Max
Jordan
Zak (late)

First Item:
Last day for ideas
Write/Vote on the forums
Secondly:
Based on the attendance of this meeting, we cannot vote here (at this meeting)
Vote online by Wednesday’s meeting
By Wednesday, we will know which game we are working on
Thirdly:
Formalize teams (overlap into Wednesday most likely)
Determine which team/sub-group you are most interested in working in (or the admin.s can decide on one for you)
Leaders/chairs, as mentioned in the email, will be in charge of their work/schedule and will guide you along the game-making journey
You can switch teams after the game decision is made if you feel that your tallents would be better used elsewhere within PowerSource
(Will address more on Wednesday)
Team Interests:
Kevin: Story
Sean X.: Story/Art
Hong: Story (setting and architecture/constructing story flow) write for the setting
Andy: Art/Programming
Evans: Chair of Story
Ryan: Story/Art/Programming
Zak: (passed) [Chair of Sound with Sean M.]
Clay: Programming/Art
Max: Chair of Art
Jordan: Chair of Programming

Discussion time:
Saber-Tooth Tiger Shark (punny shark jokes)
Should the shark game be PSG’s first step into the gaming world? (troupes concern)
If someone works on a job that wasn’t their first choice, they can bring that experience to the next project
Question of scale/difficulty/level systems
Reasoning about how to punish and reward players
Not distracting players
Shark game – difficulty levels
Maine – area-based scaling
Combine RPG/grind/and skills
Play smarter, do better (mind game/strategy vs. skill)
Companion option in the Maine game

Attendance:
Jordan
Sean
Sean X.
Hong
Vincent
Evans
Zak
Ryan
Zach
Clay
Rory
Bryan
Maria
Randiama Sp? Rookey

Announcements:
6:30 meetings every week on Mondays and Wednesdays in library CML (unless you hear otherwise).
Website will be up by tonight/tomorrow and updates will be available there.
Wiki and website will be up as soon as Jolene or John fix it.

Pitching ideas/favorite games:
Sean X:
Shark game.
Sample picture shown (tattoos/chainsaw fins/scorpion tail). Give the player small rewards to distract player from lack of detail. Highly customizable shark (birthday cake hat). Story to go along with game play. Born the chosen shark to consume the universe. Move from ocean food to humans to buildings to planets (which become the atoms of another universe).
Sean M.
Maine survival/Apocalypse game.
Doable within a semester without too many details. Canadians come down from Canada, because they want Maine. U.S. doesn’t care.
(Discussion from group as a whole: )The Mounties come and attack! Humorous…fighting moose bosses. Making fun of both Mainers and Canadians.
Bryan
Coma game.
Slowly going crazy. Alice Maddness Returns: wonderland starts to seep into the real world. Mix the real world with his/her psyche/coma. (Discussion: someone is bringing you through the game)
Rory
Coma game.
“Dark Scott” –the main antagonist (an opposite of the protagonist)-reference to Scott Pilgrim
Clay
Maine Survival game.
Fast paced level action. Night time attacks with structure. Scavaging during day.
Zach
Shark game
Creative voice humor in violence in the game (of objects).
Ryan
Maine survival
Scavenging particularly. Interest in including a companion dog like in Fable

Zak
Maine Survival game. Appreciates the idea of being able to collect items. Enjoys storyline.
Fisherman comes back with a different accents.
Andy
Maine survival and shark games. Seem easy to program.
Evans
Coma game only comfortable with writing if dark
Maine survival. Diseases make animals go crazy.Has the most options without having too much plot. Hickster character who trades things for toilet paper for his outhouse. Include humor.

Hong and Vincent’s imput:
(First time at a meeting with PowerSource.) The coma game would have a large plot. Maine game would be inclined towards user-player contact. (As would the shark game.) Thinks that the shark game would be the most doable. The Maine game might work too. (The coma game would work best for next year.)

Other subjects discussed:
The coma game will continue to be developed on wiki. The coma game is out now. Too difficult.

The wiki will have guidelines for formatting of posts.

Down to Maine or shark games.

Is the shark game too close to Spore or Calamari? Does the fact that it is doable outweigh this?

If the Maine game continues, it will need to be planned very well so that we can ensure that it can be accomplished by the end of the semester.
Shark game
Game-play: you think that once you’ve finished eating the planets that you’re done, but it just starts a whole new world.

Start of teams:
Teams are not restrictive. Everyone can contribute to every team.
Byan: Music or soundeffects/art (not a strong programmer)
Rory: Art/programming/advertising
Clay: Art/programming
Zach: programming/story/voice acting
Ryan: Character development/modeling/story
Zak: Story/sound/art/overseer
Andy: Art/programming
Evans: Story/sound/art
Vincent: Story/ideas/voice actors
Hong: translations/voice acting/construction of game with flowcharts (analyzing)
Sean X.: detail of game play/programming/story: puns/art
Rookey: Story/plot/programming/post production
Sean M: Music performance/programming/art
Jordan: Programming/art/story

Next week: the game design document is being written
If the wiki isn’t up soon enough, we could possibly start up a FirstClass folder (by Friday)
Link to a survey monkey for votes on final game choice.
Emails on status of various issues coming as soon as possible.
Monday meeting at 6:30 unless otherwise notified.
Write ideas and post. Then discuss online.

Additional side note: come up with a signature sound for PowerSource

Attendance:
Sean
Ryan
Evans
Zak
Max
Jordan
Notes taken by: Maria

No set agenda for this meeting
Should we think about “homework” for over the break?

Homework: Story:
How many NPCs
Dialogue
Skills/how they factor into story

Concern about traps/towers, what you deploy on the battlefield depends on the class you choose
Real time strategy
Repair, can we make it fun?
Who/what are the towers?
Towers are nail-guns/snow-blowers, while the animals/robots are your minions

Working on the “grid-system” (square, rather than hexagonal)
Every monster is to fit within one or more squares

Nature monstors: 5 classes: based on size (from squirrels to big enemies)
Granny boss would be a 4

Should we try to stay as far away as possible from offensive subjects (priests and little boys) or should we embrace them to get attention?
Possible moose rider named Teddy (like the President, who rode a moose, no saddle, through a river)

Sean is creating sections on the forum for notes/minutes and contacts
What percentage of the group is visiting the forum regularly?
We can check usage on the forum.

Music needs to find a functioning program for their project

Wednesday’s Meeting:
Wednesday’s meeting, break-up and decide when to meet with groups or get the story complete, most likely the latter.
Brainstorming: ask what people want in the enemies and tabulate the results
-Votes to further the ideas
-Approve/deny (critique based on notes)
-[BEFORE MEETING] Email people who we have contact info: ask for them to compile their best ideas (come with your 10 favorite ideas)

Enemy creations: animal and human types
Skill creation/trees/blueprints (traps/towers/specialty weapons)
Weapons to use

End Wednesday’s meeting with homework assignments
Post list of chosen enemies to forum so that concept art can be developed

NEXT MEETING JAN 25, 2012

Attendance:

Parker

Rory

Sean X.

Ryan

Mike

Zack

Andy

Evans

Zak

Bryan

Clay

Maria

Kevin

Max

Jordan

Charles (interested in a game-design major)

Ideas/Brainstorming:

(Big on setting and big on customization)

(Achievement system)

Maine/Zombie: Character starts in Maine in a small town off the grid. Everyone is dead/gone. You are told that a zombie apocalypse has occurred (by a Maine fisherman). You scavenge during the day and defend by night. Humor/side-scroller/puzzles/tower-defense.

2-D

Possibilities: Bartering for tools/going on a quest to find tools

Moose-boss!/Stephen King Connection?/Maine celebrities

Sequel: Come from the city to live in Maine…fending off friendly neighbors.

Pirate Idea: Open-world setting (multiple islands). Create your own character. Work your way up through the ranks of the ship. Poop-deck swabber.

World-Eating Shark: Robot shark that can fly. Eats space objects. Once you start eating planets, you eat up to the universe. Start eating humans. Score possibly based on how long it takes you to eat the universe.

Coma Patient Game: Openness/potential for anything you want to do. Start out not knowing that you are in the coma. Fight personal demons in a dream/level up. (Inspirations: Sucker Punch.) (Example: fear of something that happened on the playground in kindergarten…you as a grown man fight kids on a playground.) Varying weapon styles.

Problem: Too open?

The brain is the world map. (Refining the idea.) Sections: Nightmares/happy-unicorn-land/crazy psychological elements [Horror humor]

Each level teaches you more about the patient.

Final boss is the coma itself that you’re fighting.

Moves as a story.

Mainly a side-scroller.

Major votes:

Top 2: Maine survival & Dream

Bottom 2: Sharks & Pirates

Mission: Draw-up your thoughts of how you think these games should flesh-out. Concept art/1 page for each/concise description. Brainstorm.

Post online. (As a word document.)

Sidenotes:

Marketing: Adds and upgrading to not have adds. Debate of whether to include adds. How large the adds are.

Future Locations/Meetings

Phases