The plan:

When beginning the development for this project we thought it would be a good idea to break down the game into a series of subsystems. This way we could pre-plan how we wanted certain systems to interact and would also allow for us to catch systems we had yet to think about.

Our group wrote the systems onto a board and then once we had agreed on what we should keep we grouped them into 5 categories.

Here is a list of the groups and subsystems:

• Characters/Worms
  • Movement
  • Animations
• Game Functions
  • Camera
  • Level State Machine
  • Replays
  • Game Stats
  • Weapon Crates
• Physics
  • Collisions
  • Wind
  • Gravity
• Terrain
  • Terrain Generation
  • Terrain Deformation
  • Terrain Parallaxing
  • Terrain User Loading
• Weapons
  • Projectiles
  • Grenades
  • Aerial
  • Miscellaneous

We then roughly assigned people to one of these categories as there were 5 group members. I chose Terrain as my set of systems to work on and so I’ve been planning different ways to tackle the problem. My current Idea is to use a Marching Cube approach however I have yet to see how DirectX works so this is almost certain to change.