Evaluation

This module has expanded my knowledge of games in many different aspects. I have gained the knowledge of the history of gaming.  For example, I have looked at many previous games systems with their games and also the fundamentals of these systems. I have gained skills in developing a computer game, including understanding the elements that are required for the design of a game and techniques to creating a level in the Unreal Development Kit. I have gained the knowledge of using Kismet in UDK and can make interactions such as keys, doors, lifts, moving platforms and working with lights. Also I have worked with using terrain and have worked with static meshes and creating static meshes. If I would have had more time to complete this module, I would have developed my skills in UDK and I would have learned to do more things for my game. I plan to develope these skills over the summer and continue to create more games.

Testing for The Island Game

Floor 1

Test Number	Test	Test Procedure	Test Result	Comments
1	Test Start-up Logs	Test the logs display correctly and are activated correctly by the trigger volumes	Failed	The logs displayed twice each time they were used, I changed the log properties so that it no longer wrote the comments to the screen, this worked when I re-tested and passed
2	Test Light Toggles 1	Test Lights toggles  at the Start of the game in the player  start Room	Passed	Lights were toggled using a trigger volume and a toggle action
3	Test the Floor Switch Animation	Test the matinee on the floor switch that is used to open the first door	Failed	Matinee was not set to reverse when completed sand the test was re-done after this change was done and passed
4	Test Floor Switch Trigger volume  1	Test the trigger volume for the switch  that is used to activate the door opening at the beginning of the game	Passed	The trigger worked successfully, however initially I set the delay as 15 seconds before the doors closed. This was too long and so I changed it to 11 seconds to make it a bit more challenging
5	Test Door 1 Animation	Test the matinee on the doors that are activated by the trigger switch 1	Passed	The doors closed correctly after the right amount of time, there were no glitches with the doors collisions and they blocked access through them when they were closed again
6	Test Lift 1	Test the timing and movement of the lift	Passed	The lift had a delay to start before it moved which was successful. Also the lift movement was corrects and the triggers worked well
7	Test lights toggle 2	Test the light toggles using trigger volumes in the first lift	Passed	When the triggers are touched, the corresponding light switches on and when the trigger volume is untouched the light goes back off

Floor 2

Test Number	Test	Test Procedure	Test Result	Comments
1	Test Pickup animation	Test animation effects of the pickup for the maze door 1	Passed	The animation worked correctly and also so did the Destroy function work when the player touched the trigger volume
2	Test Maze Door 1 Animation	Test the door slides into place correctly and check all of the collisions	Failed	The door had no collision on it both before and after the animation so I needed to change the static mesh options and add in a collision type
3	Test trigger switch  1	Test the trigger for the 2nd maze door works correctly	Passed	The trigger worked correctly and also the logs that are linked in with the activation of the trigger were displayed correctly
4	Test trigger switch 2	Test the trigger for the 3rd maze door works correctly	Passed	The trigger worked correctly and also the logs that are linked in with the activation of the trigger were displayed correctly
5	Test Trigger switch 3	Test the trigger for the 4th maze door works correctly	Passed	The trigger worked correctly and also the logs that are linked in with the activation of the trigger were displayed correctly
6	Test Maze Door 2 Animation	Test the door slides into place correctly and check all of the collisions	Passed	Doors worked correctly and there were no glitches with blocking volumes etc
7	Test Maze Door 3 Animation	Test the door slides into place correctly and check all of the collisions	Passed	Doors worked correctly and there were no glitches with blocking volumes etc
8	Test Maze Door 4 Animation	Test the door slides into place correctly and check all of the collisions	Passed	Doors worked correctly and there were no glitches with blocking volumes etc
9	Test Lift 2	Test the timing and movement of the lift	Failed	This lift was required to go up to the top, wait shortly and then fall down to the bottom of the lift, however the blocking volumes were wrong and often I would fall though the lift at different areas of the lift. If fixed the lift by adding in some blocking volumes so that the player will not stand too close to the doors, therefore the test passed once I made the changes
10	Test Lights Toggle 3	Test the light toggles using trigger volumes in the second lift	Passed	When the triggers are touched, the corresponding light switches on and when the trigger volume is untouched the light goes back off. There are also warning lights that toggle of in the same manor when the top of the lift is reached

Floor 3

Test Number	Test	Test Procedure	Test Result	Comments
1	Test Logs	Test the logs just outside the exit door of lift 2	Passed	Log displayed correctly
2	Test teleport 1	Test that the trigger for teleport in the hole of floor 3 works correctly	Failed	Although the teleport work correctly, there was a problem that the player would lose 6 health points every time they teleported. After some looking at I could see that the reason the health was being taken away is because the falling speed of the player remained the same as when they were falling down the hole, and therefore when they came through the teleport, they hit the floor at the higher falling speed and the player took damage. Therefore I moved the trigger volume up higher so that the player did not fall as far before being teleported back. The test passed after this change was made
3	Test moving Platform	Test all of the moving platforms	Passed	The platforms all moved correctly, I did need to move the platforms about a bit to match them up how I wanted, but there was no technical faults (Note: This test has been done on all of my Floor 3 moving platforms.)
4	Test Trigger switch 4	Test the trigger for the final door	Passed	This door slides up and away from the hole in the wall allowing the player to go through
5	Test Teleport 2	Test the teleport that returns the player to the start of the platforms when they have hit the switch	Passed	The teleport worked correctly and took the player to the right place
6	Test Light Toggle 4	Test the first light toggles using trigger volumes in the last corridor	Passed	The lights toggle on, off and on again in quick succession
7	Test Wall push animation	Test the matinee for the 3 wall pushers	Passed	The pushers are set to start from the trigger that opens the door, they all have different delays to start so that they all move at different times
8	Test Light Toggle 5	Test the second light toggles using trigger volumes in the last corridor	Passed	The light came on correctly
9	Test Moving Platform	Test the first moving platform in the last corridor	Passed	Timing needed to be adjusted but otherwise it worked how expected
10	Test Light Toggle 6	Test the third light toggles using trigger volumes in the last corridor	Passed	The light came on correctly
11	Test Moving Platform	Test the last 2 moving platforms that join together in the middle	Failed	The platform didn’t connect properly and the collisions were wrong, also timing needed to be adjusted
12	Test Lift 3	Test the final lift in the last corridor	Passed	The lift goes up to the gap in the wall and the game is over, no problems with the lift