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

Week of the 29th to the 2nd

This week in White Lab table C8

• Continued working on our games
• Started Posters and organization for Open House
• Had group meetings to see where everyone is at
  

Goals Accomplished this week:

· Poster layout has been decided by the PM team

· More game work has been accomplished

· Hub World design has started

Goals for Next week:

· Games need to be done and tested for the 6^th

· Hub world should start being put together

· Programmer should share programming woes with fellow team for final report details.

· Final Report work should start

· More Poster work to be completed

· Plan for user guide should start

White Lab B - Mustard Seed Challenge Week 5

OVERVIEW OF PROGRESS

TABLE B1

What was done this week

• Continued game development

What is going to be done next week

• Further development of the game
• Work on the final report

TABLE B2

What was done this week

• Finished the background
• The stages of the game have been made
• Distributed work and set deadlines for the final report
• Discussed about the open house and the poster
• Continued debugging of the came

What is going to be done next week

• Finish the game
• Start work on the final report and have it finished

TABLE B3

What was done this week

• Continued game development

What is going to be done next week

• Further development of the game
• Work on the final report

TABLE B4

What was done this week

• Explored more with Gamemaker (moving platforms, shooting, portals, respawning enemies, etc.)
• Designed more level maps
• Drew sketches of Sprites and enemies
• Set deadlines for components of game
• Planned game testing

What is going to be done next week

• Game creation to be at 75% of completed
• Write quiz and fine-tune documents
• Collaborate with lab on sprite to be used
• Start preparing design transfer package

TABLE B5

What was done this week

• Finished the base frame of the game
• Programming for character, enemies, collectibles, moving platforms, questions, and answers was completed
• Discussed/created questions
• Looked for additional game ideas

What is going to be done next week

• Hope to have game finished
• Implementing backgrounds and level themes
• Start work on the final report

TABLE B8

What was done this week

• Completed layout of all rooms
• Added to game: moving platforms, items, background
• Massive debugging (successful)
• Work for final report divided among group members
• Designed sprite to be used by the lab

What is going to be done next week

• Finish all levels, and wrap up development
• Test the completed game and debug as necessary
• Work on the final report

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

The deadline is fast approaching! Many teams are falling behind and are feeling the pressure, with finals approaching and assignments from other courses weighing down on their time. With all this in mind, many are feeling like they will not be able to complete a product of high quality in time.

Project Management: once again, you need to get your act together a little. The Open House (presentation and poster), and the design manual are all "Lab-Based". As of yet, many members of the lab do not fully know what is happening in these areas, and feel as though the PM team is failing to inform the lab members what is happening and what they have discussed in their infrequent meetings. Who will be designing the poster? the manual? Who will present? Who is in charge of the final integration of the game? All of these questions need to be assessed soon. As a lab, it would be important to get together and figure things out while there's still time.

Finally, a request by this lab has been made to the lab instructors: It would be helpful if the grading guides were posted sometime soon, hopefully before the due dates, so that we know what content is expected in each portion of this challenge.

Lab Update White A For Week Of Mar29 - Apr02

A1 Accomplishments:
- Implemented a graphical design for the mastermind game that matches the lab's theme.
- Implemented a system which awards the player more virtual money, depending on how quickly the code is cracked.
- Defined what the computer-integrated part of the other two games will be (Score-keeper program for "Ladies and Gentlemen", and "Casino" function for Lines and Dots).
- Implemented a set of instructions into the mastermind game.
- Finished and compiled the mastermind game by the deadline set by the lab.

A1 Goals:
- Build the physical game board for lines and dots. And design and build a physical game board or "Ladies and Gentlemen".
- Create the score-keeping function for "Ladies and Gentlemen".
- Create the "casino" function for "Lines and Dots".

A2 Accomplishments:

- Altered collision physics in computer game to make for realistic collisions

- Worked on AI in computer game to make for predictable but accurate opponents

- Finalized Ideas for physical game

- Started integrating theme into computer and physical games

A2 Goals:

- Finish game physics in computer game and finish sprite design

- Finish physical game and begin testing

- Integrate with the rest of the lab

A3 Accomplishments:

- Took pictures of all the camera parts as we disassembled it

- Reassembled the camera

- Made several changes to how our game works

- Collected everyone else’s game files

- Began integrating the other groups games into the larger program

A3 Goals:

- Integrate all of our pictures of the camera into a How-To for the game program

- Get every groups games into the program

- Make tweaks to other peoples games as necessary

A5 Accomplishments:

- Finished the game (still has some bugs to be worked out)

- Had a team meeting to discuss progress

- Changed work packages and workload for final report

- Began introduction of the final report

- All team members agreed to help eachother out if needed

A5 Goals:

- Have a game that has no bugs and works efficiently by the end of Wednesday

- Continue working on final report

- Have another team meeting to update eachother on the status of each work package

A6 Accomplishments:

- Gathered all the materials for the gear wheel game

- Completed the familiarization presentation

- In game maker, we solved the problem of sprites 'eating' each other according to their size

- Modified the gear wheel game a bit so that the board would be easier to place pieces onto

- Modified the gears a bit to fit the size of the board

A6 Goals:

- Execute the animal chess game and make it better

- Get started on the final report

- Finish the design of the other 2 hands on games

A9 Accomplishments:

- Finished first part of the game

- Tested the first part and made adjustments based on results

- Brainstormed the rest of game

A9 Goals:

- Finish the whole game

- Test it and make final changes

- Integrate it with entire lab