October 16

• Family members stop moving for a little bit when they swing their net
• Kid has a slingshot with variable throw length

• Slower movement speed while charging up slingshot

• Turkey can peck at players, knocking them out

• Knocked out players can’t do anything until they’re revived or until the end of a round

• Have five level designs

• One is chosen randomly whenever you begin playing
• Kitchen level (which acts as tutorial)
• Empty field (with animals)
• Hedge garden with intercrossing paths
• Inside of barn
• Cornfield maze
• Impassable creek with bridges crossing over it

• Each level has different color schemes according to the time of day it is
• Some levels have environmental hazards

• But they only harm family members, the Turkey can go through them without getting damaged

• Some levels have animals

• Sheep, pigs, cows, horses

• They act as randomly moving obstacles

• Sprite size of 64x64
• Map size of 960x640
• New ability for Father - larger net swing

• Has a larger radius than normal net swing but a longer cooldown

• YES to friendly fire
• Players bump into each other
• Preliminary Art

• Top-down, pixel

October 23

• Added Mother’s Shout ability

• Speeds up everyone in the radius, has a two second length
• Four/five second cooldown

• Added music
• Working on player sprites
• Added kitchen and backyard, working on garden

• Also added stove and sink

• Added Father’s Trap ability

• Places a trap (64x64) that stays in the same spot
• If the turkey hits it, they’re stunned for 5 seconds unless they can enact a certain movement on their joystick (up down left right)
• Father can only place two traps at a time, and if he wants to place another one he has to pick one of them up first
• They do not affect fellow family members

• Added powerups for the Turkey that when picked up decrease the time left by 5 seconds
• Increased time limit back to one minute

October 25

Observations

• Very hard to control at the beginning but got easier as they got more used to it
• Difficult for the Turkey to run into the Carrot
• Occasionally the Turkey would spawn right in front of a family member and get immediately caught

• Or the Carrot would spawn right in front of the Turkey and immediately have a five second advantage

• Everyone thought the Mother shouting was really funny

• Rather than use it as an actual boost, they’d use it after they won as a celebration

• The Stun swirlies are cute
• The Father is overpowered because of larger net and has no downsides
• Mother’s Shout Boost is uncontrollable

• It’s actually more of a debuff rather than a boost

Potential Changes to Implement

• [x] Turkey and Family Members should start at predetermined or random positions on opposite sides of the map
• [x] Add “stone charging” animation to the Son
• [x] Add more Carrots to the map (3 at a time, each decrease by five seconds)
• [x] Turkey goes underneath animals and Family Members
• [x] Give the Turkey a Shout ability that moves all Family Members away from it

• Randomize pitch of Turkey Shout sound

• [x] Father should go slower and/or have smaller net and/or have a longer cooldown on the net swing
• [o] Title Sequence should say “Round X Match Y, Humans <score>, Turkey <score>”
• [x] Give sound effect and/or animation to Turkey Dash
• [x] Dashing/boosting into Sheep should knock them away
• [x] Mother Ability could be to increase Net Size or to Decrease Turkey Speed?
• [o] Change Son’s ability from Slingshot to Boomerang that returns to him after thrown
• [o] Add opportunity for the Turkey to win by collecting a specific number of Carrots before time runs out
• [x] Sheep shouldn’t walk on top of each other
• [x] Make sure Carrots render below Sheep
• [o] Make Carrots spawn on opposite side of map from Turkey so they can’t instantly get Carrots that were just spawned

October 30

• Mother’s ability now slows the Turkey down for a short while if they’re close enough
• Turkey now can Whirl, which throws nearby Family Members away from them
• Son goes slower when charging slingshot
• Also added aiming indicator for son’s slingshot
• Father goes slightly slower
• Mother goes slightly faster

November 1

• [x] Son’s stone can be slightly magnetized to him so it’s easier to pick up
• [o] Sheep can eat/move Carrots around
• [x] More interaction with Sheep

• [x] Mother’s ability slows them down

• [o] Show win/lose ratio and more statistics

• [o] Number of times each family member has caught it
• [o] Accuracy ratio for Son

• [o] Different animation for Mother slow turkey ability
• [x] Aiming line indication for Son slingshot
• [o] Particle effects for slingshot stone