Friday, April 16, 2010

It is done! This week all tables finished their levels, and the final game was made! The design manuals were printed as was the poster ... Huzzah!! The surprise presentations held during the long lab this week were not much appreciated by the students. No-one was certain what was expected in the presentations, nor on what the marking guides were... was there ever any information posted on this?? But we somehow, just somehow, managed to get trough it.


Then came the Open House. Dressed very professionally, and might I say very sexy, Michael Mund and Arpad Soos were left in charge of manning the tables. Accompanying them were some members of the lab, and their presence was much welcome. Although some passersby, and other students stopped to marvel at our amazing poster, and try a shot at our game (which we were told was awesome!) , it was pretty much a dull morning. The presentations themselves weren't too exciting either ... we didn't get any feedback from the Mustard Seed or the lab coach. All in all, it was quite uneventful.


Although our final project was what could be expected with the time limit, available program, and experience, some simple changes could be made. First of all, a better "start-up" screen for the game, could have been created. Although it had been decided upon to create a splash-screen where the player could choose what level they wanted to play, this , for some strange reason, was not created. Another change that could be made would be to make each level more similar. Although there were many aspects of the game that resembled one another from level to level, it was clearly seen that the game had been created by separate teams/people. A final change could have been to make the games easier. Some of the levels were found to be quite difficult to beat, so simplifying them would have made for a better overall final game.h

Saturday, April 10, 2010

White Lab D friday april 9


White lab D this week

- The PM committee is approaching completion for the open house poster

- Each Table completed their part of the video game and the process of interconnection via a hub world has begun

- Certain individuals were chosen to represent the lab at the open house on the 15th

- The PM committee started discussion as to how we will approach the open house and made some progress on the design Manual

- Mark, Devon and Mark made a phenomenal blog

Goals for next week

- Finish Hub World and have all games attached and working.

- Present each game in its glory

- Finish Poster and prepare for the open house

- Have open house presentation ready

- Make Friday a blur

Friday, April 9, 2010

A1 Accomplishments:
- Integrated the mastermind game with the lab's game menu.
- Fixed a couple of glitches caused by the integration of the game.
- Created a visually-appealing button that links the general menu with the mastermind game
- Purchased the needed materials for the board-game of lines and dots
- Started to work on lines and dots

A1 Goals:
- Create an instructions booklet
- Prepare the oral presentation
- Finish the two remaining games.

A2 Accomplishments:
- Programmed instructions for computer game and physical game
- Tested computer game and made changes accordingly
- Finished menu system
- Started final testing on physical game
- Integrated main game into main package

A2 Goals:
- Work on presentation poster for thursday
- Finish final report
- Finish testing

A3 Accomplishments:
-Put scoring system in games for group
-Finalized games for group
-Amended contract for penalties to late games for integration
-Integrated 4 games into the final package for the final product
-Menu+menu graphics completed

A3 Goals:
-Receive and integrate remaining games
-Follow up on contract amendment + apply penalties as necessary
-Polish finished project

A4 Accomplishments:
- Finished computer based game
- Completed board game
- Bought materials to make board for board game and spin piece
- Made board game pieces
- Tested computer game and made changes accordingly

A4 Goals:
- Work on final report
- Make design manual for lab
- Finish assembling final product for board game

A5 Accomplishments:
- Completed the final draft of the game
- Had a teem meeting to discuss progress
- Team members creating the game met twice to work out all of the kinks
- Final report was started
- Work packages were adjusted

A5 Goals:
- Have the rough draft of the final report done by Tuesday
- Help out wherever else is needed
- Help work on the poster for the open house

A6 Accomplishments:
- Completed animal chess game on game maker
- Integrated animal chess with PM team
- Finished making the board for the gear game

A6 Goals:
- Finish gear game
- Make final report

A9 Achievements:
- Finished the tutorial section of the game
- Worked on graphics of the game
- Integrated the individual parts of the game into a group game
- Created M.C.Q.S related to time management and organization
- Went through the errors in functionality requirement report

A9 Goals:
- Fix the errors in the game, Add sound and time options
- Integrate the game with lab
- Finish final report

Grapical Report # 5 for Lab C


Here is graphical report #5 for Lab c on where the lab is, vs. where the lab planned to be.

White Lab B - Mustard Seed Challenge Week 6



OVERVIEW OF PROGRESS

TABLE B1

What was done this week
  • Document editing
  • Finished the manual
  • Almost finished the game (still debugging)
What is going to be done next week
  • Finish the game
  • Final report

TABLE B2

What was done this week
  • Finished one part of the game (still undergoing debugging)
  • Finished the manual
  • Started working on the final report
  • Functionality requirement for the final report if finished
What is going to be done next week
  • Debugging the game
  • Parts of the final report
  • Integrate final report

TABLE B3

What was done this week
  • Finished game development (undergoing continual debugging and testing)
  • Intermediate testing is finished and final testing in progress
  • Finished the manual
What is going to be done next week
  • Finish the final report
  • Finish testing of the game
TABLE B4

What was done this week
  • Finished their game
  • Continued debugging and testing
  • Divided up work for the final report (started work on it)
  • Finished the manual
What is going to be done next week
  • Final report
  • Finish testing of the game
  • Prepare for the Open House

TABLE B5
What was done this week
  • Almost finished the game and changing the sprite
  • Finished the manual
  • Started work on the final report
What is going to be done next week
  • Final report

TABLE B8

What was done this week
  • Finished the manual
  • Printed off the errors
  • Finished the lab poster
  • Decided on the sprite to be used by the lab
  • Almost completed the game (still debugging)
What is going to be done next week
  • Debugging of the game
  • Final report
  • Prepare for the Open House



MONITORING AND CONTROL

A linked Gantt Chart is presented to visually demonstrate the expected and actual progress of the lab over the past week.




ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

With the end in sight many teams are nearing completion of the game. Testing and debugging is being finished and work on the final report starting/continuing. Many teams are excited to be finishing not only the project, but the course, the term, and the first year of engineering... However, with this comes finals (yikes!).

But there still some work left. Michael Mund and Arpad Soos have been elected as the presenters for the Open House, and a poster created by Arpad is to be printed at Staples this weekend and unveiled on Thursday. Some final last minute programming needs to be done, and then... it's done! Good luck to all teams this final week!!

Table update - Lab C - April 9

The table accomplishments for this week are
C1 - finished the main portion of their game, only questions need to be added
- wrote their portion of the lab manual
C2 - Worked on the game
- They have finished creating all the moving sprites
C6 - completed their level of the game
- created poster and finished as much of the final report as possible up to date
C7 - Finished and started their game this week
- Divided up the portions for the final report
C8 - Finished their game
- submitted their game overview and lab manual components
C9 - Fixed their game
- They have created all the questions for their level

White Lab C - What is Going to be Done Next Week

What we, the C lab are going to be doing next week


C2:


  • Prepare for open house and final marking
  • Final report


C6:


  • Finish final report
  • Edit final report
  • Edit design manual
  • General open house preparation


C7:


  • Final report
  • Get ready for the open house


C8:


  • Final report
  • General open house preparation


C9:


  • Finish final report
  • Open house preparation


C1:


  • Finish final report
  • Open house preparation