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Saturday, September 30

  • Started thinking more about making the game SimCity like
  • Discussed few things that we should do to make the gameplay real and keep the design easy
  • Decided to code in Electro

To do:

  • Come up with more ideas about the gameplay for the network game, especially more gameplay sketches and things related to network management
  • Secondary (Focus mainly on gameplay so we can get it done!). Start creating:
    • Physics - Khairi
    • Sound - Pawel
    • Graphics - Sunny
    • Create simple object and make it work in Electro - Everyone
    • Start thinking about Final State Machines

Next meeting: Monday, October 2 at 8:00 PM Online (Agenda)

 

 

Friday, September 29

  • Wrote more details for the network game
  • Discussed ideas Jason gave us in class and started thinking of ways we could incorporate them into the game

To do:

  • Come up with more ideas about the gameplay for the network game
  • Start creating:
    • Physics - Khairi
    • Sound - Pawel
    • Graphics - Sunny

Next meeting: Saturday, September 30 at 7:00 PM Online (Agenda)

 

 

Thursday, September 28

  • Concept of Training Music was dropped - not enough gameplay
  • Started thinking of details of the network game

To do:

  • Come up with more ideas about the gameplay for the network game
  • Start writing down game description and gameplay description

Next meeting: Friday, September 29 at 4:30 PM CS Lab (Agenda)

 

 

Wednesday, September 27

  • Meeting was re-scheduled for Thursday

To do:

  • Come up with more ideas about the gameplay for the Music Training game
  • Start writing down game description and gameplay description

Next meeting: Thursday, September 28 at 5:00 PM CS Lab (Agenda)

 

 

Monday, September 25

  • Introduction to Subversion
  • Demo of Google calendar
  • Went over coding standards

To do:

  • Come up with more ideas about the gameplay for the Music Training game
  • Start writing down game description and gameplay description

Next meeting: Wednesday, September 27 at 8:00 PM online (Agenda)

 

 

Sunday, September 24

  • We came out to a decision to stick with the music training game
  • Discussed the tools we will use and documentation
  • Discussed version control
  • Discussed coding standards

To do:

  • Think more about gameplay for our game and come out with great ideas!
  • download and install Subversion client on your computer
  • install Subversion server
  • come up with template for coding standards

Next meeting: Monday, September 23 at 5:30 PM in CS Lab (Agenda)

 

 

Friday, September 22

  • Started discussing final game idea
  • Musical game seems most complete, but we haven't made final decision yet
  • Took group's picture - will post online over the weekend

To do:

  • Continue trying out the software:
  • Continue thinking about final game idea, finalize the details of the game you think we should do (more details, the better and easier will be for us to choose the right game)

Next meeting: Sunday, September 24 at 8:00 PM online (Agenda)

 

 

Thursday, September 21

  • Try software on your own at home
  • Google Calendar (Pawel will look at over the weekend)
  • Started looking at individual ideas
  • Start thinking about the final game
  • Game engine - ask Jason tomorrow

To do:

  • Start thinking about final game
  • Bring in all sketches for tomorrow's meeting

 

 

Friday, September 15

  • Discussed presentation
  • Started discussing ideas for possible games

To do:

  • Brainstorm ideas on your own
  • Create sketches of your ideas
  • Email ideas to all group members by Thursday

 

 

Thursday, September 14

  • Made final changes to presentation
  • Rehearsed presentation

 

 

Monday, September 11

  • Discussed the first draft of the next presentation
  • Went over notes for the remainder of the presentation
  • Set deadline to get the presentation done and rehearse

 

 

Friday , September 8

 

 

Wednesday, September 6

  • Agreed on the name of the group /company
  • Reviewed class software (short demonstration)
  • Agreed on second game to review for Assignment 0: Food Force
  • Scheduled next meeting
  • Played Food Force and wrote some notes related to Assignment 0

 

 

Tuesday, September 5

  • Discussed name of the group/company
  • Discussed the Web Site creation: decided to get the domain name to match the name of the company
  • Decided on the first game to review for Assignment 0: Darfur is Dying
  • Came up with an agenda for the next week