Friday, September 30, 2011
Cahoots BrokenDown
Friday morning, 11am: Courtroom Cahoots have now become officially "broken" due to lack of scripting usage. We're back to square One, again. Hopes are NOT lost, therefore, we're NOT giving up. We're only at a standstill and uncertain on which available paths are left.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Cahoots Under Development and On Track!
Tuesday night, 6:30pm: Morgan informed me that our project, "Courtroom Cahoots" is still underscoped and needs lots of work in design, balanced gameplay and programming. He also mentioned that his portion of programming for our project needed to be ready by this Friday, 9/30/2011.
Tuesday night, 7pm: I texted Evan and informed him the news what Morgan told me. I suggested instead of waiting until Thursday afternoon as planned, to come by in the lab tomorrow morning at 10am sharp. He acknowledged and agreed.
Wednesday morning, 10am: Evan arrived with his laptop opened and I explained more thoroughly what Morgan said to me last night after Small Team class ended. He acknowledged and was a bit confused why we were "screwed." In the meantime, he and I worked on the design portion throughout the morning and all afternoon. Within luck, we both made lots of progress and finished the design portion by 4:30pm. However, scripting-wise, we were having a few technical issues by the button layout/setup. We showed Morgan what we've finished and he suggested try making GUI buttons instead of object primmed buttons. Evan made note of that as a reference.
Thursday afternoon, 1:30pm: Evan and Tim arrived. Evan started to work on the GUI buttons and reached some success. Tim started to research additional information about other scripts that may come useful for switching multiple cameras, instead of changing scenes. Myself, I've been kept informed by both of them and experimenting other possible techniques for our first digital copy version by this Tuesday.
Tuesday night, 7pm: I texted Evan and informed him the news what Morgan told me. I suggested instead of waiting until Thursday afternoon as planned, to come by in the lab tomorrow morning at 10am sharp. He acknowledged and agreed.
Wednesday morning, 10am: Evan arrived with his laptop opened and I explained more thoroughly what Morgan said to me last night after Small Team class ended. He acknowledged and was a bit confused why we were "screwed." In the meantime, he and I worked on the design portion throughout the morning and all afternoon. Within luck, we both made lots of progress and finished the design portion by 4:30pm. However, scripting-wise, we were having a few technical issues by the button layout/setup. We showed Morgan what we've finished and he suggested try making GUI buttons instead of object primmed buttons. Evan made note of that as a reference.
Thursday afternoon, 1:30pm: Evan and Tim arrived. Evan started to work on the GUI buttons and reached some success. Tim started to research additional information about other scripts that may come useful for switching multiple cameras, instead of changing scenes. Myself, I've been kept informed by both of them and experimenting other possible techniques for our first digital copy version by this Tuesday.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Courtroom Cahoots Update: Scripting Practice
Since Tuesday, September 20 2011, I've been researching some scripting codes that will become great use for our Small Team project: Courtroom Cahoots. I'm learning as we speak how to count numbers, including creating some kind of scoring system after each round or set of rounds is complete. I'll talk with Morgan, in person, for additional scripting help.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Project #1 Concept: Courtroom Cahoots
Myself, Evan Bremer and Tim Heverin came to the final conclusion for our first Small Team project concept called "Courtroom Cahoots." (Based from the Prisoner's Dilemma example shown in class last week.
All three of us worked on the game concept docuementation and here is what we have as a first draft:
http://word.office.live.com/wv/WordView.aspx?FBsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fattachments%2Fdoc_preview.php%3Fmid%3Did.124730037628486%26id%3Df93623284f4b0bf2c8a813b5dd47d905%26metadata&access_token=1588790053%3AAQB5QeQxWWiNXAkM&title=Game_Concept_Document
Further changes will be added from the professor's approval.
All three of us worked on the game concept docuementation and here is what we have as a first draft:
http://word.office.live.com/wv/WordView.aspx?FBsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fattachments%2Fdoc_preview.php%3Fmid%3Did.124730037628486%26id%3Df93623284f4b0bf2c8a813b5dd47d905%26metadata&access_token=1588790053%3AAQB5QeQxWWiNXAkM&title=Game_Concept_Document
Further changes will be added from the professor's approval.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Assignment #1: Mini Project - Polu-ggers
Each of our team mates from group Leftovers created a mini game within 30 minutes. The name of our game is called Polu-ggers; a Frogger arcade style card/board game where the goal is keeping the frogs alive by jumping over certain lilipads over a polluted bog/swamp.
Three different colored cards were used: red, blue and yellow.
Red Cards = Instant Death; causes player or players to start over from the beginning
Blue Cards = Instant Jump/Warp; depending on the arrow direction allows players head towards the next available blue card.
Yellow Cards = Safezone; prevents players from instant death of polluted water
Overall, our game concept was there and had some inventive progress. But, we needed to readjust the gameplay rules that focus more with the main objectives. Other than that, as a member of Team Leftovers, I enjoyed every moment of it as the Producer/Leader.
Evan Bremer, Game Writer/Developer, wrote a bit more about our mini project as well:
http://evanbremer.com/uncategorized/9-6-2011-first-day-of-class/
(including photos)
Three different colored cards were used: red, blue and yellow.
Red Cards = Instant Death; causes player or players to start over from the beginning
Blue Cards = Instant Jump/Warp; depending on the arrow direction allows players head towards the next available blue card.
Yellow Cards = Safezone; prevents players from instant death of polluted water
Overall, our game concept was there and had some inventive progress. But, we needed to readjust the gameplay rules that focus more with the main objectives. Other than that, as a member of Team Leftovers, I enjoyed every moment of it as the Producer/Leader.
Evan Bremer, Game Writer/Developer, wrote a bit more about our mini project as well:
http://evanbremer.com/uncategorized/9-6-2011-first-day-of-class/
(including photos)
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