Sorry, You Missed This Train

Today Abdul and myself briefly discussed deadlines. And when I say briefly I mean literally a minute before we said "see you tomorrow" we brought the topic up. I remarked that Adam and Fasil wouldn't show up and neither would Michael even though I had sent them an email during last week's Project Management: Episode 5 - WikiTools (episode 6 airs tomorrow from 10am with Legal Issues if my schedule doesn't deceive me). While Project Management is just as important as the rest of the other modules we will be focusing on History & Analysis and Programming first as they are in very soon indeed. During that time we will still be working on our GDD and the presentation however and hopefully we can put as much work in as Ryan and Aaron have so far on theirs.

While it will just be myself and Abdul working on everything since the rest of our group don't turn up or answer emails, texts or calls* we expect it may not be up to the standard as other groups where team members are turning up and putting effort in consistently. And if the 3 members of our group say "we will do the work" then unfortunately they have already missed the train to jump on and it won't be coming back for them.

Next stop: Deadline Date

Dan
*Texts cost the standard network charge. Calls from mobiles and other networks may be significantly higher than landline. Please ask the billpayer's permission first.

New Concept

You may remember that two weeks ago I posted an initial concept for the game with a futuristic robot guy. I've now expanded this further and you can see two characters which form part of the team within the game. They will be able to solve puzzles together in order to progress. The game will be playable in single player however it will take a lot longer since each individual task will have to be fulfilled which is done more quickly with more people.

Time to team up!

Dan

Great Example of team usage

well seeing as we would like to incorporate teamwork into the game and while playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 it is possible to see the benefits of team work such as being to perform great combos to overcome adversaries especially the final boss in arcade a without the team this would be an impossible feat.

Gantt Chart Complete

Well although we finished it earlier i though i may as well tell the world about it being complete so that means were another step closer in out project after allocating times of when things will actually be completed.

The Task List Scenario

Today the team, well the team that turned up, got to work on a task list. This list determined the tasks to do to develop our game along with the length each task would take. We then began work on a Gantt chart which took quite a while. Other groups also got to work on the Gantt charts but one group in particular, the members were split. One sat in his hoodie and watched some wrestling, another tried to work on the chart and the other argued that he was the best and insisted that his bar chart was in fact a Gantt chart.

This is the latest of his arguments and he's worse than Jeremy Paxman is when he wants an answer. Hopefully someday he will shut up.

Paxman is determined to get an answer no matter how loud he has to get.

Dan

ideas for our game

Well as in our project outline in Tuesdays lesson we decided our game would focus on objectives that require co-operation between a team of individuals. For an idea I though that if the game would be an fps that it may be a co-operative only game in which the leader of the group would hand out resources to each team member so they can purchase weapons and equiptment in a way in which the team could benefit.


If anyone has ideas to share feel free to comment :-)

Concept Art: Robot Dude

Hey guys, it's Fasil here.... pahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! What a joke that was, Fasil will probably never post on here. He was there when we created this blog but he was too busy texting someone and not paying attention as per usual. Anyway, some concept art for if we go for a futuristic setting with a guy I named Robot Dude.

Robot Dude - a dude that's a robot

Dan