Racing Mode

Open questions

• What happens in each phase when players join and leave?
• What GUI do we show pre, syn and post race?

Phases

• Registration
• Countdown
• Race
• Debriefing

Prerace

Questions:

• How does this phase gets triggered?
• How to players join the race?
• How are they transfered to the starting position?
  • Are they fixed in the starting position?
• How is the next phase initiated?
• GUI?
• Is countdown its own phase or just a packet that initiates a countdown?

Race

• How do players know where to race to?
• GUI during race?
• What figures do we use?
  • Total direct distance between checkpoints traveled?
  • Time?
  • Current position? How is it measuered?

Postrace

• GUI?

• player list with coordinates/points

Current solution

For now, players join the race by touching the racing portal. When players are in the race, they get sent additional messages from the server

Race Messages

Join Race

• startPortalEntityId

Race Event

• Phase: {Registration, Countdown, Race, Debrief}

Leave Race