A catch up of what we have done

Since we started with seperate blogs, this is everything that I posted on mine:

One week before the pitch

Meeting during class on 11/02/2010 at 9 - 12

Today was a really special day. We finally met the last member of our group, Joel. We decided that he should work on the music for the levels as he plays guitar an piano and hopefully we are going to get a few samples in time for the pitch on Thursday.

We also confirmed that I should get the information on the museum and the objects that we are going to use. The problem is that we haven't decided what the objects are going to be so I cant get information on anything.

My task before the meeting on wednesday is to get the powerpoint prepared for the pitch. Its going to be pictures of what we have done, so the slides will be more like prompts then have writing on. I just need all the pictures and so on so that I get it all down. My aim is to get it done so that we can go over it on wednesday and decide who is going to say what.

I am also going to do a quick mock up of what the menu is going to look like but I expect its going to change a bit since I need to see the end of Emily's introduction to see what it should look like. All in all, it looks like its going to be a busy few days.

The people who attended this meeting was

Duane Millett

Arjun Chohan

Emily Cox

Me

Joel Houghton

wednesday, 10 february 2010

The meeting after

After a lovely weekend we met again on 10/2/2010 at 2 in the cafe at the top of Owen, I got a coffee, it was average. The fire alarm also went off, that was irritating.

Over the weekend we had used our thread on Facebook a lot to discuss the game and how easy it would be to get the things that we wanted. After a bit of a worry that it would be too hard we decided that it was do-able (meaning, could be done). We also used the thread to discuss the location of our missing team member. It appeared he had been spotted in a class but was unable to attend our meeting.

In addition to this we decided that we would have a section of the menu that would have information about the museum and about the exhibits that we are using in the game.

We also saw the start of the backgrounds the levels were going to have and decided that instead of their being enemies that you have to avoid it would be more of a lateral thinking game, e.g. there would be pits that the player had to avoid by going a certain path on platforms.

We made small changes to how the levels were going to work such as if the turtle falls into the water it will rust.

Another idea we had was to place parts of the giraffe that gets attacked in the introduction (if i said that before? If not, thats whats going to happen) around each level and the players have to try and get each part as a bonus.

Then we talked about how we are going to do the pitch that will be in two lessons time. We decided that we would have a powerpoint to show the work that we have already started as prompts and talk about what the idea is going to be. So thats something for you to look forward to.

The people that attended this meeting were: (I bet you can guess by now)

Duane Millett

Arjun Chohan

Emily Cox

Me

Meeting number THREE

So we met again during class on 03/1/2010 from 9 until 12.

In this meeting he went over our idea again and made sure that it was viable. We also wondered where Joel was...

Emily showed us a picture of the turtle that she drew that is acting as our main character and we discussed the sprites for the game as well as how we are going to place us in the game.

We considered the idea of music but decided that we should wait until everything else is done before thinking about it.

We then went to the museum (again) to look at the exhibit (again). We then took some photo of ourselves so that we can be drawn and placed in the game.

It was a productive day...

The people that attended this meeting were...

Duane Millett

Arjun Chohan

Emily Cox

Me

We met again (this time in our own time) on 02/1/2010 at 2 in the museum. We agreed this date on the Facebook thread that we made after the last meeting. Our aim to meet at the museum was to look at some of the characters we could use for the game and to see some of the pictures that Emily had drawn.

Although the meeting was only an hour we got a lot decided. We finalised that or main project would be a game. However we also decided that we would have a flash introduction and credits.

The people that attended this meeting was:

Duane Millett

Arjun Chohan

Emily Cox

Me

This is the basic diagram we drew to show how the game is going to work.

During this meeting we also decided that the game would have 4 levels (Clouds, Rainforest, Water, Fire) and the introduction would be a flash animation of us stealing parts from the museum)

We decided that the levels would all end with one of the objects that was stolen from the museum being available if you answer a question about it (the answer will be somewhere in the museum).

As well as managing the other parts of the project I will also be making the menu that will link to the game and the credits.

First Meeting

We had our first meeting on 28/1/2010 at 11.

We discussed our roles in the group and what our strong and weak points were. We decided that I would be the team leader and that we would do a DS game as a project. This meeting was only an hour long.

We also agreed to set up a thread on Facebook where we would be able to discuss any issues that we had and organise meetings.