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As a player I need to have an objective: insects to eat and to play against, so that I won't find the game uninteresting.

Requirements:

• Locate sprites for the different types of bugs.
• Create appropriate classes as outlined in the Architecture guide.
• Create a spawner class or object that keeps track of the insects and spawns new ones.
• Create a pathing system for the insects.
• Create a hit detection algorithm that detects if a wasp hits the player.

Estimated Developer Hours:
12 Hours

As a player, I would find the game easier to play and more enjoyable with sound effects and/or music.

Requirements:

• Apply background music to the game.
• Apply sound effects to the game at appropriate times.

Estimated Developer Hours:
8 Hours

As a user I would like to have an interesting game play area to look at to enjoy the game more.

Requirements:

• Locate assets to spice up the game board.
• Apply assets as background image or as sprites.

Estimated Developer Hours:
4 Hours

As a user I would like interesting looking art for the frog and insects to enjoy the game better.

Requirements:

• Find an appropriate sprite for the frog.
• Find an appropriate sprite for the insects.

Estimated Developer Hours:
4 Hours

As a user, I need an avatar and the ability to move around that avatar so I can get away from insects and face them to eat them.

Requirements:

• Create an avatar of a frog.
• Allow the player to move the frog around the map with the arrow keys.
• Have the frog rotate to face the direction it is moving.
• Constrain the frog to within the map's bounds.
• Have the frog attack, showing a tongue that shoots out and perform hit detection for the tongue tip against insects.

Estimated Developer Hours:
8 hours

As a player, I want to earn points for scoring an insect eaten so that I can get the high score!

Requirements:

• Create an interface element that keeps track of the player's current score.
• At the end of the game, send the high score to an endpoint on the server.

Estimated Developer Hours:
2 Hours

As a player, I want to see my high score and compare it to other players.

Requirements:

• Small API to handle receiving and sending high score data using JSON.
  • GET \api\highscores
  • POST \api\highscores
  • Storage to MongoDB or CassandraDB.
• On game load, game end -- and potentially on a set heartbeat -- high scores are retrieved.
• When a game ends, the score the player earned is sent back to the score server.
• A web-based panel beside the game board will show the high scores.

Estimated Developer Hours:
12 Hours

As a player, I want to be able to play the game on any refresh rate display.

Requirements:

• Decouple framerate and animation time. This should be a good resource: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson32/index.php

Estimated Developer Hours:
2 Hours

As a player I would find the game more interesting if the sprites were animated.

Requirements:

• Find a sprite sheet, or create one, for the sprites that should be animated.
• Apply the sprite animations during specific events.

Estimated Developer Hours:
8 Hours