Schedule for the first sprint. !

If you want me to update it with something plz tell me!!

Group meeting 28/ 10-10

good day...

today the group had a meeting and we discussed some crucial things.

• I once again highlighted that it is very important to be on time, for every group member. We have had some occurences that group member have dropped in from time to time and not following the exact time we have enlisted for a meeting, so today this was one of the main topic of the discussion. I said that the group will tolerate anymore late arrivals and it will be strictly written down in the checklist on basecamp. and the meetings will not be delayed just because one group member wasnt here, he or she will have to find out on his own what was discussed during the meeting and what to do.
  
• We discussed about what type of responsibility the group members could take upon themselves in order to complete the first sprint, and then we automatically ended up in the discussion that people lacked knowledge in java and therefore were afraid to not take any tasks, however this will be discussed tomorrow whether those group members will get time to increase their knowledge in object orientated programming or if they will be given tasks to complete for the sprint, and thorugh these tasks increase their knowledge in java, which one to choose is up to me the project manager, and at the moment i am very confused of what way im supposed to take for them. i need some supervision. I also believe this problem can delay our project progress. but as mentioned i dont know right now what to do....
  
• i also stressed that the group members that are responsible for the graphics should start working on it as much as possible because we will want to delay the graphics work for later on if we want to have a good game.
  
• and i once again stressed upon the fact that the weekly individual plans should be uploaded to shan so he can see what is happening and what is not. 
• i also said to the group that they should try to have fun while working on the project because that would create a fun enivorment to work in.

Right now im working on the keyboard class or the controller class and things are quite stuck at the moment but im pretty confident that i will work out a proper solution to make things work. Kristoffer is working on the main class and as i saw it he was getting closer to actually finish it, which is very good, so basically in the code department we are according to me, well ahead but i want to everyone to code and at the moment that is not the case. perhaps if i give people some coding tasks according to the sprints i may be able to get everyone involved in the coding, but then the dilemma of that people lack knowledge in java comes up that makes me even more confused what type of step i must take. hopefully tomorrow i will be able to hand out a solution to our group members. 

 i will update the same page tomorrow after the groups daily scrum meeting about what decision im going to take.

The development has officially started !!

Today the team had a very pleasant skype meeting . We got through alot of things today. We created a requirement list and through this requirement list we developed a first sprint towards our future game. I also stressed during this meeting that the group members need to write the weekly individual plans to shan our supervisor.
Our first sprint towards completing our game will be the following:

The first sprint:

everyone should read the code and understand it.
our goal is to have a main functioning game.

Make character move back and forth
Jump coding
having the character to walk on the map
the player class.

Estimated time for this sprint is two weeks from tue 26/10-10

I will update the blog with pictures over our progress soon :)

until then cyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Concept art of the game : )

  

Im very happy to upload the very first concept art of our future game :)

Hope you like it and plz do give me feedback :)

Scrum presentation and project plan 20/10-10

Hello hello.

I just finished with the project plan and i have sent it in to the supervisor for feedbacks. for the next meeting i need to talk about something that is very important to cover for our project to function.

Tomorrow is a presentation on Scrum, the development methodology we will use in our project, and i expect everyone in the group to be there.

Im really tired now so if anyone in the group or followers have any questions, send a comment or something. For the group members, you can contact me on skype.

Peace out.

group meeting 18-10-10

hey guys !

the group had a meeting today. What  we talked during this meeting was following:

Assignments: 

how the assignments were completed and how people managed to complete their tasks that were given out to them the past week. I mentioned that we needed to show more dedication towards our assignments, and work with them professionally and always strive to present the assignment as good as possible, perhaps with a touch of magic haha.

the group members have taken this into consideration and i hope that i will see better results from the other tasks.

Projectplan: 

we divided the different sections of our project plan template to everyone in the team so everyone could be part of the documentation. This way of completing this task is more efficient rather than gokul doing the whole projectplan which indeed will be very frustrating for him.

here are the different sections to the group members : 

1.       over view(Neda)

2.       project Organization(Li)

3.       Managerial process plan(Ali, Kristofer)

4.       Technical process plan(Gokul,luo)

deadline to complete this is wednesday, because i will have to put everything together and present it to our supervisor so he can give me feedback on it. So i hope everyone complete their tasks completely.Submit your documents into dropbox

Dropbox:

we also decided to use dropbox as a way to handle documents between the group members. This will be a very easy way to handle different files, codes, plans etc in an efficient way. 

 project presentation on Thursday: 

we talked about this topic aswell but very briefly. i told the members that were assigned to create the powerpoint presentation,after have been seing their taskresult, that they should redo their tasks, that is the powerpoint presentation to make it look more complete.

My idea: 

I presented my idea that i had been thinking about during the week. The idea was about a technical manual over the game. this technical manual will be a tool for future programmers that would like to redo the game och update different parts of the game. For us developers, this is a great way to learn the actual code and what it means through the creation of this technical manual. 

Scrum Methodology:

our supervisor presented us to this methodology through a tem minute youtube clip. I really like it and this is going to be a helpful tool for me when im going to work on the workplan. This is very good way to structure your project so that you can get things done in a structured way with deadlines. 

here is the link for it so you also can benefit from it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5k7a9YEoUI

So that was basically everything we did in todays meeting. 

Tasks for the next meeting: 

Ali: work on the overall working plan. using scrum as much as possible i should structure the work of our group for the future. Im going to work with this task as much as possible and somehow present it to my team. on thursday. Also me and kristoffer have been given the part of the project plan which is to write the managerial process plan section of the project plan.

Kristoffer: To create the concept art and work with Ali on the projectplan, basically he is also day by day developing the main class of our game.

neda: is going to work with Li to finish the storyline and make it more complete, and she has the overview section of the project plan to complete. 

Li : you have to work with neda to complete your previous task and you also have the project ogranization section in the project plan to finish.

Gokul and luo: Complete the powerpoint and work on the technical process plan for the project plan. 

 Overall group assignment: 

everyone should write a little weekly individual plan to our supervisor shan, in basecamp or mail it to him, until friday every week.

group meeting 14/10-10

Hello hello friends !

today the group had another meeting and on this meeting we did get alot of things done ! :)

here are some of the topics we talked about:
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• Group name
• Group member roles
• about the presentation on thursday
• Checklist
• Name of the game
• more about game type
• communication

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 --> group name
 we decided to name the group to " Group Rock Rabbits". basically because we are gonna have a part rock theme music in our game, we first thought about the group name "super Rabbits", however this suggestion was overruled.

--> group member roles
today, group roles were assigned to the members of the team. Gokul and Luo was assigned to the documentation, gokul is also responsible in the graphical editing since he is good in photoshop and also for the sound for the game. Kristoffer, which will be our lead programmer, will handle most of the programming, and he also wants to do some of graphics. Neda and Li has been given the assignment to write a story line of the game.I have been given the  role of project manager, and programming.  Basically every one will be involved in the programming part, when they will be given tasks to create specific classes.

---> about the presentation on thursday
 We talked about the presentation which will be on thursday, and we talked about what we wanted to present and what we need to do for prepare for this presentation. Gokul and Luo were given the assignment to complete a power point presentation until monday.

---> checklist
I talked about the checklist, which i had been thinking about during the past week, this checklist will be a map in basecamp in which every group members attendancy rate will be inputted. through this i will be able to see who is late and who is on time. This checklist will later on be presented in the final report.

---> Story of the game
the story of the game is about a rabbit whose girlfriend was kille by a person, which will be the final boss. This vengeful rabbit wants to revenge his girlfriend who he so much loved, so he sets himself in a quest to find the person who killed his girlfriend, and kill him. That is the basic story of our game, until monday, hopefully we will have a full storyline.

--->Name of the game
The name of the game was set to " The Vengeful Rabbit" .


-->communication
We have basecamp and we decided to use Skype also:
Instead of uploading all the members skype id on the blog ill upload it on basecamp, so it remains personal.

--> tasks for the next meeting :
Gokul and Luo: they will create the powerpoint which will consist of a concept art of the game created by kristoffer. in this powerpoint we will need to have a section for graphics, group member and roles, about the game and so on.

Neda and Li: you need to write the storyline of the game until monday, i have given you the basic story earlier, now you will have to develop this basic story into a continuing story.

Ali: To understand the main class and go through some more tutorials.
Kristoffer: is going to do some more research in overall java game development and work on the main class.


For the next meeting on either monday or Thursday, i will present an idea which perhaps can make our project even more unique compared to other peoples work :) stay tuned !


Peace out....