Deer

Katie Keim, Katelyn Hicks, Ethan Nakashima, Chris Hebert

CPE 476 Spring 2014

This game is about a deer exploring a forest. It is meant to be a relaxing break from the stress of everyday life, so it does not have a set objective or any way to win or lose. Deer is about discovering what you can do in the forest.

SPOLIER ALERT: The deer can kick around a pinecone, follow a musical path, eat flowers, change between night and day, set off lightning, hop, and walk around the forest.

Controls

Basic Controls:

W,A,S,D keys - move the deer around the forest
E - eat a flower
F - hop

Advanced Controls:

Q - quit
U - lower the density of the forest
I - renew the density of the forest
L - set off lightning
J/K - scroll several attributes selected by the following keys:

F1 - far plane.
F2 - field of view
F3 - for the near plane
F4 - camera height
F5 - camera's distance to the deer
F6 (Experimental) - adjust height map scale

F10 - toggle collision boxes
F11 - toggle printing of draw times in ms (averaged over 10 frames)
F12 - toggle using the texture shading.
3/4 - toggle night and day

Images

Figure 1: This is the first screen of the game. It shows an establishing shot of the forest and the basic controls.

Press enter to begin.

The camera zooms in to the deer in the middle of the forest.

Figure 2: Butterflies appear out of the bushes when walking around.

Walking around the game, the bushes rustle, leaves fall out of the trees, and butterflies can randomly appear out of bushes.

Figure 3: The beautiful reflective river.

There is a small, shallow river running through the forest. The deer can enter the river and walk around in it.

Figure 4: The deer sleeps when it gets too close to the edge of the forest.

Figure 5: The deer can kick a pincone around the forest.

Figure 6: The world is turning gray!

If the deer goes too long without eating a flower, the world starts to fade to grays. Notice the flowers and the water remain colored as clues to eat the flowers or enter the water.