MAP STRUCTURE AND DESIGN

As the game is intended to be able to be enjoyed in multiple ways, it was important to be able to make a dynamic map system that can manage different modes of play. 

To this end I developed a map creation structure that allows developers to add in whatever objects they choose in the scene file, even including spawnable objects and various other tools, such as equipment spawners and player spawn locations.

This way, I, and other designers, can make maps that encourage players to play the game in different ways. My current focus is on developing fun, low-competition, deathmatch focused maps, and maps that inspire creativity.

TOOL GUN AND EQUIPMENT CLASS

Building on the core design concept of interactivity, I designed and programmed the main method of interacting with the various objects in the game: the Tool Gun!

Primarily inspired by Garry's Mod's own Tool Gun feature, it allows players to scale, duplicate, combine, edit, etc., the data of different objects.

On the developer side, it features hot-swappable modes, that can be removed and added to with ease as the game's scale increases.

Similarly, the Equipment Class was built such that input is pre-networked and pre-distributed to the correct equipment, allowing developers to easily create new equipment by utilizing the member functions.

SPAWN MENU

Because of the scale of planned additions, the spawn menu had to be built to plan for an increasing amount of content.

I designed the menu to be able to take in any number of new objects, with minor readjustment required.

The spawn menu also contains the ability to switch the active mode of the tool gun, and set up the infrastructure that would be needed to allow player UI to communicate with the server and alter or monitor player controlled data.

PLAYER AND PLAYER INFRASTRUCTURE

One of my most important contributions, I created the infrastructure for the player, and the player themselves. 

After I designed the capabilities the player would have, which were the ability navigate 3D space in a manner similar to an FPS, be able to handle innumerable different equipment, and be able to spawn objects, I immediately created the groundwork.

Focusing on a network structure that allows clients to only control their input, I created the infrastructure for input management, equipment management, player camera and navigational movement, equipment usability, UI information communication, and interaction with the spawn menu, as well as the health and death systems. 

The primary goal with all of these systems were to lay down the main design of the game, while allowing for free use and interpretation of mechanics by other developers. 

*Model was created by ELijah S.O., inspired by Katamari.