11/12/12
I wasn't able to come to class today as my daughter is now ill, but liased with my team via facebook chat and told them the area's that I thought needed working on. I then finished my section on development and we decided to submit early as we have other deadlines this week.
I worked on the budget and development area of the document but have had little help with this and am completely unsure whether I am doing it correctly!
I also added a bit about android and ios development, and also some graphics that were missing, the infra red and UV diagrams.
I uploaded version 15 to the skydrive which andrea had another look at, and we think we are ready to submit today.
I completed my peer review forms and names then as they should have been.
I am now completing my blog and making it into pdf format to upload.
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Week 6 - Off
Week 6 - 30/10/12
Just placing this here to show I was off and did not work on the games design document this week.
Just placing this here to show I was off and did not work on the games design document this week.
Monday, 10 December 2012
Week 12
10/12/12
Today I worked more on the design document, I added in the final artwork and some words around them, also, since doing the presentation I knew a lot more about the business model so I added some more about this. I also posted on our facebook group saying I wasn't very happy with the layout and style of the document and could someone else have a look and see if they agreed with me.
I did some of the work on my tablet from my daughters after school class, and uploaded this to the skydrive, the rest I carried out at home. I also made sure that all of my blog entries were up to date.
Today I worked more on the design document, I added in the final artwork and some words around them, also, since doing the presentation I knew a lot more about the business model so I added some more about this. I also posted on our facebook group saying I wasn't very happy with the layout and style of the document and could someone else have a look and see if they agreed with me.
I did some of the work on my tablet from my daughters after school class, and uploaded this to the skydrive, the rest I carried out at home. I also made sure that all of my blog entries were up to date.
Week 11 Part 2, Presentation Day
5/12/12
Today was the day of the presentation and I felt very nervous and worried that we hadn't prepared enough, although compared to some other teams I knew we had prepared more than some!
I arrived at 9am, we had previously worked out which lab was empty and James and Ross were here already, so I saved seats for myself and Andrea so we were sitting in a square at the back of the lab.
First of all I checked that open wonderland was working, and everyone could log in and hear each other, which we could. Then we printed out our own notes and settled down to a first run through.
I kept a timer on my phone to keep an eye on how long we had, first time everyone was pretty nervous and a couple of team members spoke for way too long, in the end up our first run through was over 20 minutes.
We took at ten minute break then started again, after I had told the team members to be more concise, this time we took 16 minutes.
Again we took another break and did another run, this time we were almost exactly 15 minutes and it was time to start.
We waited, Jim did manage to connect but none of us could hear/see anything so we believe he was having problems with the server, we were then worried that we were expected to start at exactly 11.05 and had missed the start, but logically deduced that we would get some notice to start if we had done the presentation face to face, so should expect some on open wonderland.
Jim disconnected eventually, and I fired off a couple of emails to let him know we couldnt hear him, we got a message finally saying to restart in an hour, so we took another break. Also I took this time to edit the power point presentation to fix some spelling mistakes on a couple of slides that someone else had added.
Jim came back at 12 and we started our presentation, which by my timer ran to 14 and a half minutes, close enough! I actually really enjoyed giving the presentation and was glad there was only one question as it meant we had covered nearly all of what we should have,
The entire team was on a high when Jim said it had been a pleasure to listen to and gave us an A :D
Today was the day of the presentation and I felt very nervous and worried that we hadn't prepared enough, although compared to some other teams I knew we had prepared more than some!
I arrived at 9am, we had previously worked out which lab was empty and James and Ross were here already, so I saved seats for myself and Andrea so we were sitting in a square at the back of the lab.
First of all I checked that open wonderland was working, and everyone could log in and hear each other, which we could. Then we printed out our own notes and settled down to a first run through.
I kept a timer on my phone to keep an eye on how long we had, first time everyone was pretty nervous and a couple of team members spoke for way too long, in the end up our first run through was over 20 minutes.
We took at ten minute break then started again, after I had told the team members to be more concise, this time we took 16 minutes.
Again we took another break and did another run, this time we were almost exactly 15 minutes and it was time to start.
We waited, Jim did manage to connect but none of us could hear/see anything so we believe he was having problems with the server, we were then worried that we were expected to start at exactly 11.05 and had missed the start, but logically deduced that we would get some notice to start if we had done the presentation face to face, so should expect some on open wonderland.
Jim disconnected eventually, and I fired off a couple of emails to let him know we couldnt hear him, we got a message finally saying to restart in an hour, so we took another break. Also I took this time to edit the power point presentation to fix some spelling mistakes on a couple of slides that someone else had added.
Jim came back at 12 and we started our presentation, which by my timer ran to 14 and a half minutes, close enough! I actually really enjoyed giving the presentation and was glad there was only one question as it meant we had covered nearly all of what we should have,
The entire team was on a high when Jim said it had been a pleasure to listen to and gave us an A :D
Week 11
Today we worked on our presentation, although I had already written some of mine last night, we firmed up who was speaking about what and began work.
I took notes for everyone, Andrea decided to have fairly basic bullet points but as we were doing the presentation on open wonderland myself, James and Ross went for more comprehensive notes.
We sat as a group and worked together making sure that everything we could think of was covered, I also had the presentation open in the background and added more slides as necessary.
For some reason, after two hours of working the document didn't save which almost had me in tears, however we picked ourselves up and started work again, thankfully we remembered most of what had been said I think in the long run the second lot of notes was more comprehensive than the first.
PM- On tuesday night Team Baron met on open wonderland but were plagued with issues, myself, connecting was fine, and I could communicate with Ross, but he kept disconnecting, Andrea had very bad lag and James couldn't even connect.
I suggested we download skype for a group meeting on there which we all did, we had an audio meeting on there, discussed a couple of points but due to lag it again was difficult to communicate. I decided we should all be in at 9am the next morning so we could practise our talk.
Before going to bed, I practised reading out all of the talk and timed it, it took around 13 minutes so I know we had some time to fill.
I took notes for everyone, Andrea decided to have fairly basic bullet points but as we were doing the presentation on open wonderland myself, James and Ross went for more comprehensive notes.
We sat as a group and worked together making sure that everything we could think of was covered, I also had the presentation open in the background and added more slides as necessary.
For some reason, after two hours of working the document didn't save which almost had me in tears, however we picked ourselves up and started work again, thankfully we remembered most of what had been said I think in the long run the second lot of notes was more comprehensive than the first.
PM- On tuesday night Team Baron met on open wonderland but were plagued with issues, myself, connecting was fine, and I could communicate with Ross, but he kept disconnecting, Andrea had very bad lag and James couldn't even connect.
I suggested we download skype for a group meeting on there which we all did, we had an audio meeting on there, discussed a couple of points but due to lag it again was difficult to communicate. I decided we should all be in at 9am the next morning so we could practise our talk.
Before going to bed, I practised reading out all of the talk and timed it, it took around 13 minutes so I know we had some time to fill.
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Week 10 part 2
02/12/12
To begin with today I downloaded the latest version of the powerpoint and found it has had no work done to it. I also posted in our facebook group asking if anyone had checked open wonderland to see if the picture that I put of Baboo is there, but again no one has done this.
I started putting images into the powerpoint and will upload a new version of it to the skydrive once finished.
Ive made a notes for presentation document which splits up the areas of the talk into sections which each of us will focus on. We have to get these areas all individually finished for tuesday, so we can pretty much practise all day on tuesday, otherwise I will be angry! I will be working on my areas which are - Introduction, Overview, Business Model and Conclusion this evening with the aim of having them finished for tonight.
To begin with today I downloaded the latest version of the powerpoint and found it has had no work done to it. I also posted in our facebook group asking if anyone had checked open wonderland to see if the picture that I put of Baboo is there, but again no one has done this.
I started putting images into the powerpoint and will upload a new version of it to the skydrive once finished.
Ive made a notes for presentation document which splits up the areas of the talk into sections which each of us will focus on. We have to get these areas all individually finished for tuesday, so we can pretty much practise all day on tuesday, otherwise I will be angry! I will be working on my areas which are - Introduction, Overview, Business Model and Conclusion this evening with the aim of having them finished for tonight.
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Week 10
27/11/12 - Week 10
Ross and James didn't come in today, so to begin with I looked at the current document to see where we were at. Although it still needs a lot of work, it is definitely coming together now. After this I went and looked at the dates for deadlines, and see that our presentation is next wednesday, whereas the document doesn't need to be in till the 10th of December, so decided that we should start work on our presentation, and our openwonderland space.
I first of all tried out open wonderland on the pc's in lab 113, and it didn't work in here so went through to 116 where it worked. I logged in and traveled to the auditorium to see the space, and also tried dragging in a few images.
I watched a video from moodle on how to pitch a game, 1. Good Idea, 2. Gameplay - 60%, 3. Don't start with story, more about platformer, this is how you go through the level, frame the concept.
Me and andrea put together a powerpoint outline for our presentation, we worked through individual slides, adding headings and text, but will struggle to do much more until the other members of our team are here.
I uploaded the powerpoint to the skydrive, and then posted in our facebook group asking everyone to have a look at it, and to log into open wonderland to make sure they can access it.
Ross and James didn't come in today, so to begin with I looked at the current document to see where we were at. Although it still needs a lot of work, it is definitely coming together now. After this I went and looked at the dates for deadlines, and see that our presentation is next wednesday, whereas the document doesn't need to be in till the 10th of December, so decided that we should start work on our presentation, and our openwonderland space.
I first of all tried out open wonderland on the pc's in lab 113, and it didn't work in here so went through to 116 where it worked. I logged in and traveled to the auditorium to see the space, and also tried dragging in a few images.
I watched a video from moodle on how to pitch a game, 1. Good Idea, 2. Gameplay - 60%, 3. Don't start with story, more about platformer, this is how you go through the level, frame the concept.
Me and andrea put together a powerpoint outline for our presentation, we worked through individual slides, adding headings and text, but will struggle to do much more until the other members of our team are here.
I uploaded the powerpoint to the skydrive, and then posted in our facebook group asking everyone to have a look at it, and to log into open wonderland to make sure they can access it.
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