Week 13

week13

(17/2/14)

This beta week base on last week comment we start to correct and finalised our job scope. I bought some of the material to make the projector stand stronger. We are making more support in between to make it more stable.

Jazmi advised us to spray the projector stand into black so it look nicer.

So i focus on coding more because this week is beta week. To make the game more user friendly we need add in timer and when the timer is counting and people interact with the mouse deer it will auto restart.

(18/2/14)

Today is one day before beta so we gather up to set up at iis to make sure during beta nothing went wrong. And basically focus on logistic. So at the same time i continue to refine the coding.

Wilson is refining the User Interface and make the story intro video and ending video.

And Angela need to voice over the poem.

We end and 6 then we head back home. I am suppose to change ui and design few more stage to continue the poem but turn out wilson send me the files and 10 pm so i need to rush out the stage overnight.

Due to the design have slightly different so basically changing the whole files is faster than replace one by one then copy over the coding. So i start over a flash to import the design files over. When i realise i finish one stage is already 3 am . Then i continue create the pause page and main page. Then i went to sleep and wake up early to continue.

(19/2/14)

Today is beta test due to overnight i wake up slightly late. When i reach i continue to my code. And the time is rushing and other are busy setting up. Although Angela want to help me but if i explain the coding and the structure to her will just waste the time of coding so i just do it myself.

After finish the stage almost beta test. Then i create the sound manager to play music. Thank to leon for helping me out. After when i think everything i correct that time. Proxy that connect AS3 and arduino have some error that make our coding when wrong. We tried to fix but due to the time we cannot do much so first come to my mind is to ask Jam to help. Jam show up on time and help us solve the code. But the still got some error. I try to fixed the error and the member is very nervous and rushing me. And say just show first. But i say cannot because if show also need to show one stage that are complete. So i use all the time i have to fixed it.

Although I cannot complete the stage but there are still some outcome for the beta test. For the part that are still unable to test out i use computer to show how it work and how is the game play look like.

And these are feedback we get after the beta test:

beta 19/2/14
1. how many min for the whole game play? too long?
2. can save the game?
3. gt 2 main purpose: folktale, teamwork, try make it more focus
4. a bit too monotonous, cz just 1 interaction (jump) only
5. can try to tilt the carpet
6. graphic is unfinished, typography
7. the green dots on the kancil's body like kena virus
8. the star on top of kancil is ambiguous, star indicates some positive meaning but actually is the kancil life -1, maybe can make it like turning in circle
9. game stage background can try to make it more graphical, like different level showing diff time (day/night) or (cold to warm), can refer to Badland graphics
10. the design of booth can make it into a cave
11. carpet to shoe?
12. for the intro, certain text at the side cant read, maybe can make it smaller font and change the color of font, or make the middle part very bright so that is like people are flashing a torchlight in a cave
13. ending movie
14. destination, stop few frame then continue
15. documentary video

Week 12

week12

(10/2/14)

Today me, gerry and jeremy have plan to buy pipes after submission of assignment. So we head to jeremy house area, the a shop that sell pvc pipes so go there and did some calculation of how many pipes we need and how are we going to construct the project stand. Then we buy the pipes and the pipes joins and cutter. And we head to jeremy house to start out construction. But due to jeremy have some activities, he fetch us back and we build at our house.

Then i go back to code the tutorial stage.

Angela also send the request letter to the script writer to get approval.

(11/2/14)

Today Angela post that we get approve from the script writer. And i am still coding for the trial page.

Then Angela start to find sound to compose the background music.

Then me and gerry is discussing how to make the place to put the projector and how to make the projector stand more stable. So we decide to buy two piece wood and screw under and on top so that we can place some weight on it.

So Angela will go to buy woods.

(12/2/14)

Before the class we gather at my place to finalised some coding and design and also screw the wood into the pvc pipe to make it stronger.

Today class i continue to refine code and add in more condition like pause and the flow of the game to make more user friendly. And i also try to link to arduino to check whether the coding work with the flash files.

At the same gerry and other are setting up for the alpha test and creating a platform for the flex sensor so user can jump on it .

Then we had our alpha test with the lecturer. we explain how is the game play and why we use two player the reason is simple because deer got four leg so we use four leg to represent the mouse deer. The lecturer give us some advices to refine the graphic and sound and try no to forget the purpose of the game is to understand the poem and the story of san kancil

Week 11

week11

(5/2/14)

Today we discuss and decide to change our project plan again. I think this is the fifth time of changing proposal. But we kind of lost. We are thinking using kinect to sense jumping, to simulate the user is the dear and when user jump the dear jump to let the user to interact with the story.

Then we present the our new idea to Shahnim and ask us to tell what we want to do in person and try to think what we can create from our interest. But we cannot what we like so we stick back to the old plan. Then we was order to write on a piece paper. So i start writing and linking point.

After i list the detail and had a final discussion with jazmi. And they approve the idea. We start to discuss about design and interface and i start to research on coding. Due to i have some similar coding assignment. So i am kind of familiar. Due to today is alpha test. I get some tutorial files from Leon because our coding is similar. But after getting the tutorial i realise the code is different from what we want. So i get back my previous assignment coding and refine most of the thing to create the prototype to show it is side scrolling.

Then i start research on how to trigger two key to make object move or jump because our installation need to two person to interact together. And gerry help me find out the code as well.

Then we discuss on how to organise the story because our group start late compare to other team so need to plan everything first before we start operate.

At night i ask angela to come over tomorrow so that we can go get the tool and material that we need to buy.

(6/2/14)

Today we going to get arduino at Shah Alam. Angela fetch us there. Because i went before so we reach there safely that we buy two flex sensor then left to pyramid for logistic projector stand.

we head to pyramid ace hardware to check out the material. But we ended up didn't buy anything due to the price is very expensive and also we find out that is a bit hard for us to bring over the projector stand to publika. So we thinking of creating the projector stand with pvc pipes. So we head back to my place.

We start to test arduino code and connect arduino to flash in processing to check is the sensor i working then we try two sensor to check that they can work together or not. 

After settling most of the arduino part. I went back to my game coding. And i ask gerry to contact jeremy to see when is he going to buy the pvc pipes so that we can tag along.