Cory Zicolella, Week 3 PPJ - Getting Started

Website Creation/TroubleShooting - 4.5 hrs / 2 hrs

Website Content - 1 hrs

Rough Menu Art - 1 hrs

This week our group had a meeting where, together as a team, we discussed the general story behind our game and the driving force for doing what we want to do.  We each brainstormed for a bit, and had fun tossing around some ideas for some theoretically really concrete and fun mini games to add.  A few of us are including our prototypes from the last class meeting in the game and will restructure them to fit the current environment they need to be in.

After that, I volunteered responsibility for creating our team's website and essentially our project development's 'home base' -- Sadly, I don't want to put a screenshot of the website you're reading into the post, but I assure you this post's existence is proof that I (somewhat) did my job.  It definitely needs to look pretty still, and have more content, but that will all come at one point or another once we actually get our feet off the ground and have things to put in here.  For now, this site will do for my own sanity's sake.

I also volunteered to help Xavier with the very small job of creating prototype art for a concept menu.  It was nothing major, but I did have to revise it once.  The scrapped version is below:

The new version simply replaces what would be the buttons with the names of the games, and they are all separate images instead of one jpg.

Content Positive

• The website, I think, came together quite nicely. Right now it's simple but I have further plans. (4.5 hrs)
• I made a small push this week to get Riley to help me put some content on the webpage so it wasn't mostly empty, and it looks great so far (1 hrs)
• 'Hand-scrawled' art has been prototyped for a menu.  It does its job (1 hrs)
• My prototype from the last class meeting will be integrated into the game, which means I will be able to develop it further 
• Team Communication so far has been fantastic and it makes everything so much easier.

Content Negative

• Troubleshooting a handful of minor problems with the site getting setup was annoying and took time away from doing other, arguably, more useful things (2 hrs)
• Despite how glad I am our website isn't barren, I wanted to get more up there. Ah, well.

Total Hours for the week: 8.5 hrs