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In the midst of feudal Japan's turmoil, two anonymous Samurai don the guise of Ninja to battle for the future of civilization. As the Blue Ninja, you must vanquish the deadly White Ninja to ensure the legacy of the Hoedown. Engage in fierce combat, using advanced attack, block, and magic controls to defeat your foe ten times. With realistic animations, motion capture, and sound effects like sword clashes and chirping birds, experience the epic showdown in this sophisticated game crafted with detailed physics and AI behavior. Are you ready to face the ultimate challenge and protect the Way of the Hoedown against its malevolent adversary?
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Samurai Hoedown Joseph Brinkmeier Okan Irfanoglu Firdaus Janoos Boonth Nouanesengsy Youding Zhu Spring 2006
Story As the seventeenth century dawns, Nippon is in turmoil. She is recovering from a series of internecine wars among the Samurai warriors of the feuding clans. The Tokugawa clan is gaining ascendency, to form what will be the great Edo shogunate, where the Way of the Samurai (Bushi-do) reaches its pinnacle. In the midst of this, two great warriors battle each other to the death to preserve all that is great and honourable. For, at stake is a way of life even greater than that of the Samurai itself - The Way of the Hoedown !!
Story The two Samurai, whose names are known only to the Shinto Gods, seeking anonymity, for their cause is Great and the future of civilization itself depends on their quest, dawn the garb of those who stalk sliently in the Shadows of the Night - the nefarious Ninja. They fight on the Island, whose name shall never be mentioned, for on it has been spilt vile and evil blood. You are the Blue Ninja, the Samurai whose destinity it is to fight for the Hoedown. Your opponent is the deadly White Ninja, who so desparately wants to destroy all that is Good and Great. You must fight him and kill him 10 times, for only in that lay the Future of the World. En Garde !
Controls • Walking controls: backward, forward, left, right • Actions: We have control for five attack actions, three block actions, and two magic actions. • Attacks: Left mouse + drag the mouse in the direction of the desired sword swing. • Blocks: Right mouse + drag the mouse in the direction you want to block. • Fireball & Heal magics : Keyboard
Graphical Elements • Realistic animations • Used own motion capture data
Graphical Elements • Animation • Mapping mocap data to a skeleton
Graphical Elements • Realistic Water
Graphical Elements • Particle Effects • Blood, Fireball, Healing
AI • Increasing level of sophistication • Behavior changes with level and the current life left and current action of the player • Actions are decided on a nondeterministic manner based on probability tables • Probability tables are manually built
AI • screenshot
Sound • FMOD • Positional sound • Nonpositional sound • Sword clash • Grunts • Birds Chirping
Physics • Coded own physics engine • Collision detection • Ogre animation collision detection problem • Sword-Sword collision detection • Sword-Torso collision detection • Gravity • Action priority and blending queue