Week 4 Day 3 - Current Status

We are about a week and a half from Alpha 1 test.  This week has been pretty productive, with completion of the following tasks:

• Game lobby character customization placeholder
• System for character names, and rework of chat box
• Boundaries to the arena, and respawning when you hit these boundaries
• Reworked character ability management, so now abilities are loaded when the player is created
• Currently these are all predefined for each player, and is not sent over the network (That will probably be for Alpha 2)
• Network test
• Able to create servers and join them as expected
• This test displayed an issue where some players will completely lose control of their character, and fly off in a random direction.  We aren't sure what causes that issue, but it's definitely something that will need to be fixed before Alpha 1

This puts us about on track for where we wanted to be at this time.  We still have the following tasks to complete before Alpha 1:

• Rework push ability, to act more appropriately
• Teams, score keeping and end of game
• Game lobby game placeholder information
• More thorough network testing
• Add cross hair to the HUD
• Create official post-play questionnaire for Alpha 1

We have also created the web form for our Alpha 1 test sign up, it can be found here.  We are hoping for about eight people for each of the two testing times.  That would give us a fairly large sample to draw data from, while still being manageable.

Shortened link to sign up form: http://goo.gl/hgkHZU