Lab A Weekly Update - Week 3

The following is a breakdown of each team's progress since last week.

A1

• Completed functionality report
• Met with team A2 on Saturday Mar. 20 to complete use-case studies and develop content for our respective game levels
• Content creation chair (Annie) divided up responsibilities for various content needing to be developed
• Team consisting of members from A1 and A2 responsible for all content in our levels
• Brainstormed potential solutions for audio/video needs for levels
• Cam is on programming team and has been working at learning flash and developing program requirements assigned to him, mostly completed intro screen for first level

A2

• Organized and seperated the content creation parts
• Met with group A1 and have begun to design some graphics for the game
• Have organized a meeting for Saturday March 27 @ 11:00 am to shoot the video content
• Separation of parts is as follows:
• Kyle: Audio content
• Sunny: Create the bow and arrow, title screen for game, success screen

A3

• Decided on graphics (background, images and sprites) for our level
• Started experimenting with using Flash, and recording sounds
• Started programming in Flash
• Typed up a testing template to be used to test each level

A4

• Members assigned to write the text, create the visual and audio content for the program created by table A4 and A6
• Graphics work done on PhotoShop by Nitish and Henry
• Kevin wrote the script for the audio
• Venki prepared a check list of all the testable material for this group

A5

• Kevin N. will work with programming team; Canaan, Karim and Robbie will work with content team
• Teamed up with A7 to make one game that deals with conversation training as a whole
• Team A5 met after lab to work on the content of the game
• Finished entire use case of the game, (overall overview of how the game works)
• Divided functionality report and assigned everyone his portion; everyone is to finish their portion and sent to Kevin before Thursday in order to compile everything
• Paul gave the rest of programming team useful tips and tutorials on how to use Flash MX program (program we're using to make game)
• Made changes to the usecase and content of game in order to fit with team A7's
• Finished content of the game (we'll have 12 questions with brief tutorials outlined before questions come up)
• Canaan and Robbie teamed up with Alex in A7 to get working on content for conversation training, while Jerry from A7 and Kevin N. finalized all the concepts that we are going to use to make up the game. The game will have a total of 18 questions: 6 that deals with informal conversation, and 12 questions that deal with formal

A6

• Finished planning out our portion of the game
• Combined our game concept with group A4 game concept(also facial
• expression)
• by dividing our section of the games' difficulty into easy(group A4)
• and hard(us)
• Began development of our integrated section of the game (ie,.
• Programming, Graphics..)
• Set more lab group meetings for next week
• Created the questions and answers for our section of the game
• Began writing script for our section of the game

A7

• Worked on the functionality report
• Further divided the group into smaller work packages

Figure 1: Project Progress Chart

Each team's plans for next week:

A1

• Shoot all video requirements
• Develop all audio effects
• Develop all graphics
• Continue developing programming for level 1

A2

• Have all the video and audio content edited.
• Have audio and visual content in to in to the programmers by thursday
• Give all the graphics for the game into the programmer by thursday as well

A3

• Program the level, and begin to incorporate the sounds and graphics
• Record the sounds
• Design the graphics for the level (including background, images and sprites)
• Begin testing levels as they are completed

A4

• Complete the audio script and the visuals by Tuesday March 30th
• Complete checklist for testable materials by Thursday April 2nd

A5

• Canaan, Karim and Robbie plan to complete all the graphics they're responsible for by Friday
• Canaan, Karim and Robbie plan to work on audio on Thursday
• Kevin N. and Jerry plan to meet this Saturday to work on programming
• Kevin N. and Jerry from A7 plan to program at least 1/2- 3/4 of the code needed to build the level (conversation training)
• Kevin plan to meet with programming team on Tuesday at 2pm to go over what every programming member has done so far

A6

• Finish script
• Finish video
• Most of the programming (shooting of the targets, questions asked,
• and answers)
• Setting yet some more lab group meetings for the coming week

A7

• Work on assigned work packages