Logs for Mark Hopkins

Week: 15 -- Date: 2008-04-23

Time -- Started: 05:11 PM -> Finished: 08:11 PM

Activity: Meeting and development

Description:

Met with team to discuss documentation. Fixed bugs and tweaked gameplay

Week: 15 -- Date: 2008-04-18

Time -- Started: 01:36 PM -> Finished: 04:36 PM

Activity: Meeting and Development

Description:

Met with team to polish up game, and make final design decisions, implemented damage types for the enemies and towers, added border to gameplay area.

Week: 14 -- Date: 2008-04-15

Time -- Started: 02:57 PM -> Finished: 07:57 PM

Activity: Meeting and Development

Description:

Met with team. Developed prototype. Added graphics.

Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-08

Time -- Started: 04:50 PM -> Finished: 08:00 PM

Activity: Development

Description:

Developed prototype. Fixed some bugs, and balanced game more

Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-04

Time -- Started: 01:22 PM -> Finished: 05:22 PM

Activity: Development

Description:

Continued development of prototype. Added beam tower, new graphics and effects

Week: 12 -- Date: 2008-03-30

Time -- Started: 02:01 PM -> Finished: 04:01 PM

Activity: Development

Description:

Continued research and development of sound for the prototype

Week: 12 -- Date: 2008-03-29

Time -- Started: 01:19 PM -> Finished: 03:19 PM

Activity: Meeting & Development

Description:

Met with team, and continued work on prototype. Fixed some bugs.

Week: 8 -- Date: 2008-03-26

Time -- Started: 07:13 PM -> Finished: 10:13 PM

Activity: Meeting and Development

Description:

Met with team as usual to discuss upcoming tasks. Developed prototype. Added code to place towers, find enemies, make towers shoot, and more

Week: 12 -- Date: 2008-03-25

Time -- Started: 07:20 PM -> Finished: 10:20 PM

Activity: Meeting & Development

Description:

Met with team to discuss theme and implementation of sound. Started adding sound to game.

Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-11

Time -- Started: 06:27 PM -> Finished: 10:27 PM

Activity: Meeting & Development

Description:

Met with team to discuss VVR. Continued Development. Added time-based slow effect, tower outline, tower range indicator when selected. Made some improvments and cleaned up code

Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-09

Time -- Started: 01:00 PM -> Finished: 06:00 PM

Activity: Meeting & Development

Description:

Met with team to discuss upcoming tasks and documentation. Continued Development of prototype. Added indicator to show resources gained when enemies killed, made health bar change colors acccording to damage, made the Levels class much more flexible.

Week: 10 -- Date: 2008-03-05

Time -- Started: 12:45 PM -> Finished: 03:45 PM

Activity: Development

Description:

Continued integration of GUI with game logic, set up many game events and event handlers for the gui to hook. Made it so that towers cannot be placed to block the enemies path anymore

Week: 10 -- Date: 2008-03-04

Time -- Started: 06:52 PM -> Finished: 11:00 PM

Activity: Meeting & Development

Description:

Met with team to discuss documentation and upcoming tasks. Continued development of prototype, started some GUI work, added the concept of levels and lives

Week: 9 -- Date: 2008-03-03

Time -- Started: 12:22 PM -> Finished: 04:22 PM

Activity: Development

Description:

Worked on prototype. Implemented collision detection for towers and enemies, "shadow" tower and range finder when placing towers

Week: 8 -- Date: 2008-03-01

Time -- Started: 12:00 PM -> Finished: 04:00 PM

Activity: Development

Description:

Worked on prototype. Optimized some movement code. Wrote class to display FPS. Wrote gameplay code

Week: 7 -- Date: 2008-02-22

Time -- Started: 01:17 PM -> Finished: 04:17 PM

Activity: Research & Development

Description:

Researched and developed game stuff, like capturing mouse clicks and putting guys on the screen

Week: 7 -- Date: 2008-02-19

Time -- Started: 06:00 PM -> Finished: 11:00 PM

Activity: Meeting & Development

Description:

Met with team and continued development of game. Completed pathfinding and testing of pathfinding

Week: 6 -- Date: 2008-02-12

Time -- Started: 06:20 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM

Activity: Meeting & Research & Development

Description:

Met with team and did further research and development of prototype, specifically in areas of setting up the game grid and path finding.

Week: 5 -- Date: 2008-02-05

Time -- Started: 06:00 PM -> Finished: 08:30 PM

Activity: Meeting & Research

Description:

Met with team and discussed upcoming tasks, specifically the SDS. Continued flash research and prototype development

Week: 4 -- Date: 2008-02-04

Time -- Started: 05:49 PM -> Finished: 07:49 PM

Activity: Research

Description:

Researched flash, pathfinding and collision detection techniques

Week: 4 -- Date: 2008-02-02

Time -- Started: 11:10 AM -> Finished: 03:40 PM

Activity: Meeting & Research

Description:

Met with team and discussed upcoming tasks, such as the SRS, SDS. Continued flash research and prototype development

Week: 3 -- Date: 2008-01-29

Time -- Started: 06:10 PM -> Finished: 07:10 PM

Activity: Meeting

Description:

Met with everyone about website and documentation issues. Also did some flash research

Week: 3 -- Date: 2008-01-27

Time -- Started: 03:31 PM -> Finished: 06:31 PM

Activity: Meeting

Description:

Met with everyone, implemented basic prototype
of a game

Week: 2 -- Date: 2008-01-26

Time -- Started: 04:29 PM -> Finished: 06:29 PM

Activity: Flash Research

Description:

Went through flash tutorials and books

Week: 2 -- Date: 2008-01-25

Time -- Started: 04:22 PM -> Finished: 02:22 PM

Activity: Flash Research

Description:

Went through flash tutorials, researched tower defense game play

Week: 2 -- Date: 2008-01-19

Time -- Started: 02:19 PM -> Finished: 06:20 PM

Activity: Flash Research

Description:

Went through flash tutorials, researched tower defense game play

Week: 1 -- Date: 2008-01-18

Time -- Started: 05:58 PM -> Finished: 07:31 PM

Activity: Initial Project Planning

Description:

We received our project (Flash Tower Defense), so we planned how to proceed from here. We are meeting tomorrow to get started with flash tutorials, and will start planning game details and assigning jobs next week.

Week: 1 -- Date: 2008-01-10

Time -- Started: 04:17 PM -> Finished: 06:30 PM

Activity: Requirements

Description:

Wrote First Version of Bid 1 and Bid 2