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