Team Proposal - Number Munchers

Members:

Honeybunch - amt3824@g.rit.edu
Faokryn - faokryn@csh.rit.edu
Susan - slunn@csh.rit.edu

Project - Number Munchers:

Our team decided to work on a Number Munchers clone. Number Munchers is a game where you need to eat all numbers that meet certain criteria (i.e. multiples of two) while avoiding nasty monsters.

Roles:

We're kind of forgoing roles at this point. We don't need a whole lot of graphics or sound so everyone's job is just going to be writing a bunch of code. 

Source Code:

Will be hosted here

Upstream Mentors:

Easy Parts:

Setting up PyGame
Getting the basic game working
Making sure that the content matches up with the NY state math requirements

Hard Parts:

Optimization
Troggle AI
Balancing random content

How to overcome obstacles:

Getting the base game done is the main goal and overall should not be that difficult. It's a game praised for its simplicity so re implementing it should not be impossible. Obviously we won't be doing the exact content from the original but will be mixing it up with Fractions, Geometry and other requirements from the common core for 4th graders. The hard parts are just going to take work. Troggle AI is going to take a decent amount of work without overloading the hardware as later levels will be having multiple AI routines. It's just going to take a lot of playtesting to make sure the game is fun yet challenging.