{"id":117,"date":"2016-01-25T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-01-25T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:19:33","slug":"week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/2016\/01\/25\/week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fri, Jan 22nd, 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1) Meeting with Ralph<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare music for all demographic<\/li>\n<li>Setting up winter-like feeling with ethereal music before the game starts<\/li>\n<li>Idea that makes player frozen(or make player\u2019s character into snowman) when they get knocked out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>2) Meeting with Brenda <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encourages us to have animal-like character because it has more flexibility in the aspect of race and gentder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>3) Meeting with Rich<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The meeting note is as followed<\/p>\n<p><em>Art<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether we should have animal or human characters should be decided later, once we\u2019ve nailed the core mechanic of the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>for the build phase, have a fixed amount of resources to build the fort, and make snowballs out of the leftovers<\/li>\n<li>throwing snowballs and having them stick snow to the face of the other player<\/li>\n<li>throwing vs. ducking mechanic, based on the orientation of the mobile device\n<ul>\n<li>device lying flat: building\/throwing phase<\/li>\n<li>device picked up: ducking phase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>have the players\u2019 faces photographed before the game starts, and superimpose the pictures onto the avatar heads\n<ul>\n<li>maybe allow players to upload their own photographs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>when throwing a snowball at a snow fort brick, have the snow from the fort return as an asset when it falls back apart into snow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Other<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We should speak with <strong>Jon Salwitz<\/strong> about the game he made, <strong>\u201cRampart\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>game has two phases: build phase, then fighting phase<\/li>\n<li>having a fixed amount of a resource<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thu, Jan 21st, 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1) Meeting with Tom Corbett<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have a meeting with Tom Corbett at 3:30 pm. We got lots of feedback and the meeting was very helpful for our team. His feedback was as followed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humanlike concept art<\/li>\n<li>TV\/controller connection idea<\/li>\n<li>Class design<\/li>\n<li>The game design that has all game mechanic integrated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>2) Preparation for OCCO meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We started to reinforce the powerpoint slides. We add the information as followed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The game design that has all game mechanic integrated.<\/li>\n<li>Actual production deadline<\/li>\n<li>Humanlike concept art<\/li>\n<li>TV\/controller connection idea<\/li>\n<li>Class design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed, Jan 20th, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1) HBO Visiting<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We pitched to the HBO personnel and it was successful. We pitched about the work we\u2019ve done for two weeks and they were all surprised that we are having a very productive schedule and progress. HBO personnel seems interested in VR interactive storytelling.<\/p>\n<p><em>2) HBO Tech Talk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joshua, Winnie, Sarah and Winnie take the HBO Tech Talk seminar. We get information about VR interactive storytelling principles of the new HBO interactive content production team.<\/p>\n<p><em>3) Setting Linux to experiment Disney snow simulator<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martin set the Linux to simulate Disney snow simulator at the public computer.<\/p>\n<p><em>4) Send Steve ETC present status of use<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joshua send the present status of use to Steve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>5) Arrange meeting with clients<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We arrange meeting with Tom Corbett at 3:30 pm 01\/22\/2016 Thursday. We will pitch it to him first and get some feedback for final presentation. Also, we set the time of meeting with OCCO at 4:00 pm 01\/23\/2016 Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>6) Team building (Math war)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martin and Jerry have math war. They tried to prove whether life is a lie or not in mathematical way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tue, Jan 19th, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1) Start managing development blog<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Get the Hostname and ftp information from Sarah, and started to find and apply adequate theme into development blog.<\/p>\n<p><em>2) Prepare pitch for the HBO visiting<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We prepared powerpoint slide for HBO visiting. We arranged the work we have done for two weeks. We checked our concept art for the first time. Everybody thought it was cute. I hope we can decide our firm concept after we get feedback from the actual client from OCCO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon, Jan 18th, 2016 :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1) Finish Theming plan and send it to Janice<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We will make 3D paper snow flake and hang to the ceiling. Also, we decided to buy Indoor Snowball + Indoor snow shield + Indoor snow launcher for prototype and brainstorming<\/p>\n<p>Indoor Snowball(40pk) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ADVKRRM\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2AGSI5FHCF3TV\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ADVKRRM\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2AGSI5FHCF3TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indoor snowball shield(With 2 indoor snowball) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00MQ426W8\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=AEQF4HVNPT5Z4\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00MQ426W8\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=AEQF4HVNPT5Z4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indoor snowball launcher(With 4 indoor snowball) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00V7BAMYU\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2P5I4NW0QQAX1\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00V7BAMYU\/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2P5I4NW0QQAX1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>2) Finish &amp; check the construction prototype and aiming prototype<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jerry spoke to programmer and organize the game mechanic into more engaging way<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fri, Jan 22nd, 2016: 1) Meeting with Ralph Prepare music for all demographic Setting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productionprocess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/black-ice\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}