Basic Project Timeline

Basic Functionality - due by EOD Friday (11/4)

• Brick collision/destruction
• Separate business-logic code from view-related code (from rubric)
• Game controls - start (enter/return), pause (P), restart (esc), return to welcome screen (Q)
• Welcome Screen
• Play Screen
• Lose Screen
• Win Screen
• Scoreboard/sidebars

Testing - due by EOD Saturday (11/5)

• 3 Rating - Full testing suite for paddle, ball, bricks and their interaction
• 4 Rating - full testing for all functionality and features with no gaps

Upgrades - due by EOD Monday (11/7)

• Prizes dropping from special bricks that give player machine gun.
• Variable bounce angle on paddle
• Two balls after certain level
• Ball size
• Ball personalization
• Timer
• Music playing - speeds up as timer gets closer to zero
• Ball Speed
• Paddle Size
• Brick placement
• Special brick interactions (unbreakable, penalty bricks, increase/decrease ball speed bricks, some other dumb crap
• Center of paddle sends ball straight up

Refactoring - due by 12pm Wednesday (11/9)

• Draw function
• Brick creation process (SJ comment - I think we need to better understand how this is working)

Final User Interface Design - due by EOD Wednesday (11/9)

• Clean-up CSS
• Make sure images are crisp and clean
• No wasted space