Starting out with TGE

I purchased TGE a few weeks ago, and I'm pretty pleased so far... there's certainly a lot to learn. I know I would spend years to create something of similar scope -- and I don't doubt that I could, but I'd much rather spend that time creating something useful. It's a great bargain at $100.

So my first project to aide in learning TGE is to take a very simple 'game' I did as a school project a couple years ago, and re-implement it with TGE. Of course with TGE I have much better capabilities, so I expect that when I 'done' the result will look at lot better.

Here's my basic plan for implementing this. I hope to have this done by 6 Jan 06 -- figuring I have about 25 hours available to work on it between now and then, basically equivalent to a GID effort:

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MS0: Leverage starter.fps

- build TGE from CVS
- Hack up starter.fps to simplify, get my feet wet.

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MS1: World

Terrain
- flat plus vertical cliffs
- uniform texture

Player
- carpet is rectangle (flying vehicle)

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MS2: Generated terrain

Terrain
- generate at startup
- generate lightmap
- texture sand vs cliffs

Player
- follow terrain
- carpet waves

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MS3: The cave

Terrain
- add a cave - as interior?
- the cave raises / lowers

Player
-

Theives
- boxes
- move towards cave, following terrain

HUD
- count of theives

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MS4: Bombs away

Player
- mouse moves reticle
- click lobs coconut with sound

Coconuts
- kill theives in blast radius
- explosion sound, no graphic


Theives
- run away from bombs

HUD
- radar of thieves

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MS5: Explosions

Terrain
- cave up/down sound

Player
- 3rd person view
- player model
- throwing animation

Coconuts
- Explosion animation

Theives
- horse & rider model
- body parts on explosions
- Open Sesame sound

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MS6: Fighting back

Player

Theives
- terrain-following AI
- they shoot back

Game
- restart
- time limit