Logs for Matt Brown
Week: 16 -- Date: 2008-04-23
Time -- Started: 06:30 PM -> Finished: 11:59 PM
Activity: Final Development
Description:
Fixed a lot of little bugs and made minor teaks to get the game ready for Demo Day.
Week: 14 -- Date: 2008-04-18
Time -- Started: 01:30 PM -> Finished: 01:00 AM
Activity: Button/Tower Redesign + New Enemy
Description:
We changed the size of the grid which required me to redesign and in some cases replace buttons/towers so that they would look good at the larger side. Also, added new bullets so that each tower fires a unique bullet. Discovered that one of enemies wouldn't work visually so replace it with another enemy.
Week: 14 -- Date: 2008-04-13
Time -- Started: 01:30 PM -> Finished: 06:00 PM
Activity: GUI Redesign
Description:
Met with team and discussed how we felt about our theme. We agreed that our overall visual presentation needed a lot of work so we began working on overhauling our GUI.
Week: 14 -- Date: 2008-04-13
Time -- Started: 07:30 PM -> Finished: 10:30 PM
Activity: Button Redesign
Description:
Continued working on GUI redesigned. Edited buttons to fit with new GUI design.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-08
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:30 PM
Activity: GUI Improvements
Description:
Added a feature that lets the users know what types of enemies they will face on the current level as well as the next.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-06
Time -- Started: 01:30 PM -> Finished: 05:30 PM
Activity: Tower/Enemy Images
Description:
Continued to work on importing, linking, and modifying Tower and Enemy images.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-06
Time -- Started: 06:30 PM -> Finished: 07:30 PM
Activity: Tower/Enemy Images
Description:
Made last minute fixes to the images and buttons for Towers and Enemies.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-05
Time -- Started: 01:30 PM -> Finished: 05:30 PM
Activity: Tower/Enemy Images
Description:
Worked with Casey to further refine the theme for our game. Also, linked new enemies into our game.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-05
Time -- Started: 06:30 PM -> Finished: 10:30 PM
Activity: Tower/Enemy Images
Description:
Continued to work on importing, linking, and modifying Tower and Enemy images.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-04
Time -- Started: 01:30 PM -> Finished: 03:30 PM
Activity: Tower/Enemy Images
Description:
Work with Casey to find images for our towers and enemies.
Week: 13 -- Date: 2008-04-01
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: Team Meeting
Description:
Meet with team to discuss the theme for the theme of our game and what we wanted to get done for our Stage 2 release. We then divide up and started on the remaining work.
Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-30
Time -- Started: 09:30 PM -> Finished: 01:00 AM
Activity: Custom Button Tutorials
Description:
Went through various Flash tutorials on creating glossy 3d buttons that would be a vast improvement over our current generic buttons.
Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-25
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: Tower Selection Feature
Description:
Implemented feature that when a player is attempting to place a tower on top of another tower the tower that has already been placed is selected.
Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-11
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:30 PM
Activity: VVR and Continued Development
Description:
Met with the team to help created our VVR v1. Implemented a sell button. It allows users to sell a tower they have already placed in exchange for more resources. Made many little fixes to get the game ready for Stage 1 release.
Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-09
Time -- Started: 01:00 PM -> Finished: 06:30 PM
Activity: Continued Integration
Description:
Finished up work on GameOverWindow. Implemented InfoBar and got it to display tower stats.
Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-09
Time -- Started: 07:30 PM -> Finished: 12:30 AM
Activity: Upgrades
Description:
Implented upgrades for four tower types. After a user places a tower they can now spend money to upgrade the various stats of that tower.
Week: 11 -- Date: 2008-03-07
Time -- Started: 06:00 PM -> Finished: 09:00 PM
Activity: GameOverWindow
Description:
Worked on GameOverWindow with Casey. Set up base functionality of asking a user to enter their name and then hit submit.
Week: 10 -- Date: 2008-03-04
Time -- Started: 07:30 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: Integration
Description:
Met with team to begin the process of integration. Discussed various things we still need to accomplished to have a working game. Divided up remaining tasks.
Week: 9 -- Date: 2008-03-01
Time -- Started: 01:00 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: GUI Development
Description:
Pair programmed with Casey on the GUI. Completed first prototype of GameMode and began work on first prototype of GameWindow.
Week: 8 -- Date: 2008-02-25
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: GUI Meeting
Description:
Met with team to discuss decisions regarding game-play modes, layout of GUI, and the GUI's interaction with the underlying game logic.
Week: 7 -- Date: 2008-02-22
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 09:30 PM
Activity: Game-Window GUI
Description:
Pair-programmed with Casey on the game window GUI that will be used in the beta of our TD game.
Week: 7 -- Date: 2008-02-19
Time -- Started: 07:30 PM -> Finished: 11:30 PM
Activity: VVP
Description:
Worked with team to write VVP v1.
Week: 6 -- Date: 2008-02-15
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: GUI Tutorial
Description:
Started and finished a tutorial on building GUIs in Flash with Casey.
Week: 6 -- Date: 2008-02-12
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 10:00 PM
Activity: SDS and GUI
Description:
Revised SDS version 1 and wrote SDS v2. Began working on the GUI.
Week: 5 -- Date: 2008-02-05
Time -- Started: 07:00 PM -> Finished: 09:30 PM
Activity: SDS
Description:
As a team, we wrote the SDS.
Week: 4 -- Date: 2008-02-02
Time -- Started: 11:00 AM -> Finished: 03:30 PM
Activity: Team Meeting
Description:
As a team we wrote our SRS and as well discussed issues regarding our the content of our game.
Week: 4 -- Date: 2008-01-29
Time -- Started: 06:00 PM -> Finished: 09:15 PM
Activity: Project Plan
Description:
As a team wrote version 1.0 of Project Plan.
Week: 3 -- Date: 2008-01-27
Time -- Started: 01:30 PM -> Finished: 04:30 PM
Activity: Flash Tutorials
Description:
Met with the team. Worked on creating enemies and their motion.
Week: 2 -- Date: 2008-01-19
Time -- Started: 04:00 PM -> Finished: 06:00 PM
Activity: Flash Tutorials
Description:
Began learning about Flash and ActionScript by going through introductory Flash tutorials. By the end we were able to create objects that had simple predefined motion as well motion dictated by the mouse/keyboard.
Week: 2 -- Date: 2008-01-18
Time -- Started: 02:00 PM -> Finished: 03:00 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: 04:00 PM -> Finished: 06:30 PM
Activity: Requirements
Description:
Wrote First Version of Bid 1 and Bid 2