Scope AND Boundaries

Scope and Boundaries

Scope

The Program will be able to:

·         Ask the user to click a button to change the back picture of the program

·         Change the background picture of the program as the story progresses

·         Allow the user to make a choice between two or more ways to progress through the story.

·         Play background music.

·         The background music can change volumes and tune.

·         Save the details of the user’s last quest and loads it on request.

·         Allows the user to have a dialogue with the characters in the game, choosing from one or more response available.

·         Has a main menu with 3 options- Play, Help and Settings

·         Displays some information about the game when the user presses help on the main menu

·         Plays the game from the last saved point available or starts from the beginning if the game has never been played before when the user presses play on the main menu.

·         Allows the user to switch off the background music when the user presses a button in the settings submenu.

·         Allows the user to skip the backstory if necessary.

·         Allows the user to change the main character’s name if they so wish.

·         Has a pretyped name (Alaska) if the user does not wish to change the name.

Boundaries

The Program will not be able to:

·         Let the user type in response to the characters

·         Make their own way around the Fantasia world without using the preset buttons – so for example if the user wants to go to the bathroom and there is no button you can click on to get there it is not possible to go to the bathroom.

·         Support more than three different buttons per screen

·         Support more than three pretyped responses when interacting with a character

·         Support more than one person playing

·         Store any other details about the player other than the name they chose for themselves and which stage in the game they got up to.

·         Let the user change the background music manually

·         Allow the user to stop talking to a character

·         Allow the user to go back to a previous stage of the game

·         Support animation