Meeting Notes from 2/10/2012

2/10/2012

• Items will have same columns as Tamagotchi to indicate how item affects the Tamagotchi state
• When you touch the item, the item bar on the bottom will turn into item description and dragging item onto Tama will result in a confirmation dialog
• 50 items max, but only 10 will be displayed at the bottom of main screen.  To access the rest, you press a “more” button
• Top bar will have Tama stats
• Game mechanics are up to Yancy (i.e. health algorithm, etc)
• Sickness
• Is sickness a bar, and medicine just lowers the sickness level?
• Or is sickness a type of sickness (i.e. cold, flu, malaria) and specific medicine is used to cure specific sicknesses?
• Locally store sprites on SD card
• Separate Store
• When you want to access store, you must update app to get new sprites
• Otherwise you don’t need to update and can play normally with your existing items

• Backpack class will handle drawing of items and item-related functions
• Tamagotchi class will contain Tamagotchi stats and attributes
• applyItem(Item item) function will take care of applying the item’s effects to Tamagotchi
• Item class will have all the item info and behaviors