Wedensday Presentation

Lads, are we still going ahead wedensday? The buses are canceled and the weather is predicted to get worse. Please let me know whatis happening. I am writing up my bit for presentation today but I don't know if I will have a way in.

Survey

Hi Guys, I have the Survey's Printed now and all. Here is the content as to what the questions are??

Survey
3rd Year Multimedia

Do you find Parking in DKIT Satisfactory??

Yes No Its ok

Would you log on to facebook everyday in the College??

Yes No Not on Facebook

In Carrolls, do you struggle to find the rooms??

Yes No

Which would you visit more often, StarBucks or the Canteen??

StarBucks Canteen

Name one hinderence/Problem tha DKIT students encounter everyday??
(e.g. Parking etc.)

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The last question is the one that we are going to use the feedback from the most, I currently am looking at the different interactions online and some of it is really interesting, Tunde I agree with you the web cam looks as if it is definitely possible to do, I think that it would be a really interesting method of interactions with our games. I will keep looking up different forms of interaction and everyone research the part of the presentation that you presented the last time, yea??

Guys these are my mock ups of various characters. I'm still unsure of which way to go so I'd appreciate a little feedback off you all, let me know your opinions. Thanks

Webcam interaction

I was looking at ways we can interact with a webcam and i came across this link.
http://www.adsinteractive.eu/news/webcam-interaction-over-the-web/

Getting the Idea Nailed Down

Hi everyone, today we really got somewhere developing the idea. We are getting close to getting a concrete decision on our narrative. Tonight everybody is researching about the different games within our project and is to come up with three of thier own.
They are to consider:

-The look and feel to the game
-The main idea behind the game
-The location
-Whether its collaborative/multiplayer and reasons why

And also if Sammy, James Neo research what makes a game good and keeps a user interested. while myself and Tunde will research into different types of interactions..??

What do you's think??

Brainstorming

Hi everyone I was talking to caroline today and we are going to have a meeting with her tomorrow. I cancelled the meeting today just because we have not got a chance to meet since our last meeting with her. We are meeting at 1 tomorrow, the hole group try be there because we are really behind and have to really get cracking to catch up.... We are going to go into a room and brainstorm using the board. We have to come up with a narrative. We came up with the theme of a game show, that does not have to be a concrete decision either as we are still at the beginning of the brainstorming process, so if anybody has any other good ideas think about them more tonight and say them tomorrow..

If we decide to stay with the theme of a game show the next thing we need to do is to come up with a narrative. A beginning a middle and an end to our story. Tonight we should all be brainstorming about issues and elements of our everyday life as we are who we plan who we plan to aim our projects at. Just be thinking about what's current and what is popular among our age group. We don't have to even consider how to turn it into a game, we just have to get a theme that we can base a game around. Maybe have a look at a few game shows that are different to your normal game shows. Just generate different ideas in your head and will be flying tomorrow. I really just think that we have to seriously start doing a good bit of work to get this idea moving..

If any ideas post them up here and we can start discussing them tonight!!!

Narrative

Hi guys, Firstly we are meeting Caroline at 4 o clock on monday so everybody make themselves available. We have decided that we are going to go ahead with the narrative of a game show. Tis broadens the possibilities of what direction we can take, for the meeting we have to have the story-line of our gameshow. A beginning middle and end Because our target audience is students our age, we need to have a story that is current and popular to keep our users interested and engaged.

We are not to think of the game itself or the physical aspect of it yet, just the storyline in which we want to use. Has any-one any ideas??

Storyboard

hi guys~
do you have something about our storyboard yet~? our game seems like something about team-work, competition, challenge, visual impact or something like that. i have some video games like that. first one is the strike 1945, it is a arc game with high difficulty and can play with 2 people. another one is like the wow, a team beat one boss. they will have tank to suffer the attack and wizard to have magic attack, priest to heal them and maybe some other dps. that just an idea about that. do you have some other idea about that yet~?

Project Manager

Hi guys as you know for this week only I am project manager. I would like us all to meet Monday after college to discuss what we have done over the weekend and to chat about our plan of action. Monday @ 4 in Starbucks. Il text you all to remind you. If you cannot make it please contact me and I'll arrange something else.

Look for Inspriation...

Hey guys, as you have heard, we need to go back to the drawing board for an idea, so i went back through the notes from weeks passed and decided to post up links to websites with interesting projects.

We have Caroline for our supervisor, and we are meeting up with her within the next week, I want everybody to get at least 5 brilliant/weird/wacky/interesting/stupid/funny/Original.... ANYTHING, just something that interests you, it can be a theme or a hobby, anything, just come back in next week with 5 links to projects.

Here are some to get us started:

http://www.pixelsumo.com/ (wacky/interesting Projects)

http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/the-pool (use of light in a game)

http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/sound-interjection-yuri-suzuki (drawing colours and sounds)

http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/reactable-mobile

http://jklabs.net/projects/visualscratch/chirp.html (Audio and Visuals, using a turntable)

http://www.6emeia.com/ (Urban, Street art)

http://notsonoisy.com/ (Interesting Projects)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYk0I5lY9Tg (worlds largest drum machine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8kNTH-KDY (Spray paint)

These are just a few to get us loking at different idea's, even is u draw nothing from the idea's, maybe you will get something from the theme, or something from the graphics or the style.

Preparation for tomorrow

Ok, well we know we are going to be aked how our project differs from Audio Space and also DJ Band. We have to all be prepared for the questions.

Audio Space: Floor emotion is based on feelings and through audio and visual techniques the user will express these. Our project will not allow the user to create their own audio as we are creating the sequences. The user interaction is to chose one of them by selecting a emotion. Also, we do not want to have our display in a room for the exhibition. We would like to have it out in the open for people to watch and want to interact with.

DJ Band: It differs to DJ Band because our sequence dictates the tempo/speed the user moves. The combination of our audio and our visuals will create this expierance of the users chosen emotion.

That is example of answer, if you want to tweak it or beef it out please blog it so we are all in tune!

Final Parts for Presentation

Hi everyone, it was only me and Neo at the meeting today, the presentation has to be on the machine by 5 tomorrow, so what everybody has to do for tomorrow is what I said yesterday, no matter what everybody has to elaborate on their speech from last week and have everything they want on the presentation in bullet point form, also anyone that wants graphics/images will have to bring them in with them tomorrow.

One more thing, James do you fancy coming to our class at 9 in the morning, the four of us are there and Kieran is letting us work on our presentation, and i'm not being bad but I think Tunde James And Sammy are going to have to miss audio.. Me and Neo are off at 1 for the day and we really really need to get this nailed early in the day so we can practice and make any changes..

What do you's think??

Presentation

Hi everyone, i don't know if you have seen the email. Our presentation is at 25 past 12. We are the second last group. I don't know whether that is a good thing or a bad thing... but it is what it is, I have been looking at this flash presentation and it seems to be more difficult to do than I thought. I'll keep at it, but for tomorrow everybody storyboard what you want on your slides, even do it on paper because the font, colour etc all have to be the same throughout the hole thing. Any graphics you need, design/Download them for tomorrow. We need to get a good start on this tomorrow. I'd even like to have it done tomorrow so we can be tweeking it on tuesday.

One more thing, I think that the visuals slide to our presentation is still way too weak, so for tomorrow if everyone researches 1 mood and visuals that correspond with it, will take 15minutes, and bring in an example of it(Even just a jpg)..

Mock Presentations (roles etc.)

Today we finalized the finishing touches on the roles for the mock presentation on the 4/11/10.

James= He is going to read out the sentence that we have constructed as a group on what our project is/going to be in one sentence. He is also going to give the introduction and a brief run through what our project is.

Sammy= She is going to come in then and go through the feeling/emotions theme to our project. What way we are planning on basing the project around this theme and some mediums in which we are going to use to portray this.

Tunde= Since Sammy has been working very closely with Tunde because audio is the main way in which our user will experience the theme of feelings, he will be the next speaker. He will describe the work and research we have done to make a user feel emotions and certain moods through audio.

Paul= I will then come on and describe the hardware, how it is going to be built? How it is going to look? And, what materials will be used in the making of it. I will also mention the visuals that we are planning on using, there is still some decisions open for debate on the way we are going to do this. We have numerous ideas of implementing emotions through visuals. To be decided later!

Neo=Neo will then come on describe the technical side of our projects. The way in which the switches will work and the way in which the audio will be interactive to the user. How the user will interact with the audio through the sequence method that we have designed.

We will meet tomorrow from 11 to 12 and put together a little powerpoint presentation and practice by presenting it to another group in our class..