SE3330-IntermediateSoftwareProject

University project to develop an applications using the agile software process methodology. This is a 2D colony simulation gaming using XNA and MonoGame frameworks written in C#

Team Name: C#-er Than You Project Name: Diode Dominion Team Members: Brandon Bonebrake, Faith Beuhler, Timothy Facklam, Melynda Vang, Jackson Hemming Last Update: 05/06/2021

Run Instructions:

• Go to "Diode Dominion" folder -> "bin" -> "x64" -> "Debug" -> run "Diode Dominion.exe"
  • This folder can be generated by compiling the program
• All of the files/folders that are located in this folder are required to execute the program

Build Instrutions:

• Use visual studio 2019

  • VS 2017 use to have a download, but microsoft has since removed it

• Install XNA from here: https://flatredball.com/visual-studio-2019-xna-setup/

  • Follow the instructions on the website in order

• Install Monogame from here: https://www.monogame.net/downloads/

• Once that is done, the project should be able to be compiled from Visual Studio.

List of Files Needed to Run:

• None

Assumptions about Locations of Documents on the Network:

• None

Known Bugs:

• There's a seed that causes the game world to be made up of mostly water tiles and some mountain tiles with glitches between grass and water tiles that don't move.
  • This bug couldn't be fixed because this situation is hard to reproduce since it rarely occured and the seed wasn't recorded each time we ran the program.
• Sometimes trees spawn outside of the map boundaries or on water/mountain tiles.
  • Technically the trees don't spawn on top of water/mountain tiles or out of bounds, but they just look like they do.
• Sometimes the weapons and tools are spawned in water/mountain tiles.
  • We didn't have enough time to create generators for each item/weapon/tool.
• Sometimes when colonists or animals are trying to avoid water/mountain tiles, they get stuck between those specific type of tiles and their movement loops them to keep moving back and forth between the same locations for a while before they just move to the location.
  • This bug couldn't be fixed because we didn't have enough time to look deeper into the pathfinding and test it more.
• Sometimes the animals still walk on water/mountain tiles.
  • This bug couldn't be fixed because we didn't have enough time to look deeper into the pathfinding and test it more.

Known Design Deficiencies:

• How we draw is inverted compared to .Net, but it's more manageable.
• Sometimes colonists may have the same name. This was due to time constraints.
• The framework was bareboned, so we had to make everything in the game screens (buttons and containers).

Running Tests:

1. Open the Diode Dominion project in Visual Studio 2019.
2. On the top toolbar, go to Test -> Run All Tests
3. Verify that each test's icon is a green checkmark.