our IMPJ logbook...

IMPJ day 13... 2 more days...

2005-09-28T19:02:00.000+08:00

most of stuff's done for the application except for a few script errors and stuff in Flash and Director... most of them solved... started on the promotional materials... Soy Hoon did the poster... but suppose it's still not the final one... haven't finish the scripting for her kitchen part... Natalie's going to do the cd packaging part and try to settle the script problems... Yian Phing's working on the web... Lee Yan's doing the splash intro...

was briefed on te final presentation today... starting to prepare for final presentation.... final report and all... trying to finish everything as fast as we can... let's hope we can finish by friday... no. we must finish by Friday morning. Yeah.

IMPJ day 12...

2005-09-27T19:53:00.000+08:00

3 more days to final presentation and we haven't touched our promotional materials... Yian Phing start on the web part already... and we suddenly remembered that we haven't done our splash page... did quite a few flash stuff today... continued with whatever that is still unfinished...

the virtual sports room file nearly corrupted when trying to import swf files for the images... but saved when i brought it to school and deleted that particular swf... after that, realized that we saved the swf the wrong way... should make the image you want to save visible then export as AI file to SWF file, preserve appearance, lossless... decided on the sounds but haven't put into the application yet...

IMPJ day 11...

2005-09-26T18:20:00.000+08:00

it's the first day of the last week... oh man... and we haven't started on our web n packaging... and we're like only halfway through the application...was supposed to meet, but we never... just talked about the layout and stuff over the net and the phone on Sunday and continued with our work...

since we're doing a spy game concept, we decided to do the packaging and psoster in game style... like Red Alert and stuff... decided on a few of the songs and sound effects, collected quite a few of them but haven't decided exactly which to use in the application... still working on the script and still got lots of problems with the script... some flash actionscript problems also... but solved most of them... don't know if should continue the basketball game in the virtual sports room... if there's no time, i suppose we'll just have to forgo the basketball game and just keep the tennis game...

IMPJ day 10...

2005-09-23T18:09:00.000+08:00

It's Friday!!! end of second week... and we still have so much to do... thinkin of meeting up during the weekends to discuss our web and packaging... continued our editing and scripting...

IMPJ day 9...

2005-09-22T19:04:00.000+08:00

Yian Phing and Soy Hoon didn't come today because they wanted to do their work at home and they thought that our superisor won't be coming today, so they decided not to waste their time... but... in the end, he came... and said alot of things about our stuff and so we had to edit alot of stuff again... at this rate, i wonder when will we ever finish...

IMPJ day 8...

2005-09-21T19:26:00.000+08:00

Interim presentation... brings us back again to square one... lecturers spotted alot of mistakes... and when they pointed them out, we couldn't answer much back... not enough things in the room, doesn't look like the future, doesn't look like a virtual world, users won't know where to click when they enter the room, etc etc etc...supervisors were assigned to us already...

k... was thinking... if it's a virtual world, it can be anything right... since it's a virtual world... anyway, some of the props are made to be more futuristic... ah... never mind... will see to it... and to the other graphics as well...

gotta move faster already... we're already being slowed down... gotta work harder... and i don't think we're following the schedule and the work responsibilities stated much already... like who is supposed to do what and all... because we're abit behind schedule... so whoever finishes their stuff first or has nothing to do at the moment will help with the other stuff first... scripting also abit of a problem since we do not know how to make certain things work the way we want it to...

IMPJ day 7...

2005-09-20T20:09:00.000+08:00

graphics still not finished... each time it seems like we're going to finish graphics, something will crop up like colour worng, perspective wrong, needa improve the minor details, add more stuff, etc etc... preparing for interim presentation... and 1 of the computers has a problem again... tiz time it's not de swf problem... it's the Director... once you double click on something, the Director automatically quits...

started scripting... actually started yesterday... Soy Hoon's kitchen is only halfway done... so the rest of us started to script 1st so that can show something tomorrow and at least make ourselves feel better by starting on the next phase....

IMPJ day 6...

2005-09-19T16:02:00.000+08:00

kx... our graphics still haven't finish... so far only the Sports Room is considered done.. starting on abit of Director now... there's pixilating problem.. don't know whether it's the computer's problem or our problem... export the graphics from Illustrator as swf also cannot... nothing appears... this is getting quite irritating... gotta get the graphics quickly over and done with and focus on scripting n other stuff... don't understand some of the scripts from the Director MX 2004 Games book... getting quite worried here... why are there no lecturers around? hmm...

IMPJ day 5...

2005-09-16T20:56:00.000+08:00

it's friday.... 1 week has passed... fast huh... around 2 wks left... had problems with the colour of the kitchen at first because it's green... it worsens one's appetite... so in the end we changed it to yellow colour scheme...we finished most of our graphics... going to start on the animation and some of the scripting... Soy Hoon brought whatever graphics we have back home to try...

somehow... just feel that we're abit lagging behind time... probably because we took such a long time on the concept, which is the initial stage... kept having to change stuff in the concept since it was not exactly approved... there's this other group who's so fast that it's making the other groups quite stressed... but never mind... we'll catch up as fast as we can... :)

IMPJ day 4...

2005-09-15T18:07:00.000+08:00

continued our graphics today... continued with our research on interior design and game at the same time... spent the entire day on graphics... yah...

2005-09-15T00:49:00.000+08:00

Yian Phing's "bedroom" on de com screen...

2005-09-15T00:48:00.000+08:00

Lee Yan's stuff... that's our "dog" n "living room" on de laptop screen...

2005-09-15T00:47:00.000+08:00

Natalie's workdesk.... the virtual world inside the "sports room" on de com...

2005-09-15T00:46:00.000+08:00

Soy Hoon's workdesk and see the "kitchen" on de com? it's not yet finished when i took this pic...

2005-09-15T00:45:00.000+08:00

Soy Hoon @ work... trying out de scripts from the Director MX 2004 Games book...

2005-09-15T00:44:00.000+08:00

our work desk on de 3rd day... even worse... 3 coms down... n things everywhere...

2005-09-15T00:43:00.000+08:00

our work desk... for the 1st, 2nd, 4th day n for de rest of de proj... notice tt de com is down?

2005-09-15T00:42:00.000+08:00

Yian Phing @ work... Ridz behind is also busy taking pictures...

IMPJ day 3...

2005-09-14T09:12:00.000+08:00

concept presentation today... still got lots to improve on... got problems with the flowchart and the proposal... decided on the spy concept.. lecturers gave alot of comments and ideas on how we should improve the thing and suggested that we should do it like a role playing game... and started working on it... planned the stages of the game and he outcome... so wonder if we can do a game in Director... nvm... we'll try our best...

Lee Yan will be doing the living room... Yien Phing will be doing the bedroom... Soy Hoon will be doing the kitchen... n i'll be doing the sports room... start to research on our graphics... and planned to start graphics by today... borrowed quite a few books on interior design as reference...

somehow... we keep getting places that have computers that don't work... how unlucky...

IMPJ day 2... our logbook died

2005-09-13T08:04:00.000+08:00

yah... n so our 1st logbook died... no more http://yonie.blogspot.com... why? because when we logged in the blog is not there...

still haven't finalized our idea... too many things we're still unsure about... so we continued thinkin of more ideas and came up with the second concept... the spy concept... basically it's about a home in the future and how the technology has changed how everything works ... and the roles differ in both concepts.

the first concept is seeing the home and inreacting with it as he owner of the house... the 2nd one, the spy concept is more like a role-playing game... where the user will become the spy and take photos with an "embedded" device to collect information to steal the technology in the house to implement it on his company's stuff... he has to go through the 4 stages (which is the 4 rooms) to collect clues/password from each stage to continue to the next stage...

tomorrow's presentation... hmm...

IMPJ day 1...

2005-09-12T09:11:00.000+08:00

Group weekly plan: finalised concept

problems encountered: idea rejected. problems coming up with new ideas, kept changing ideas.

Work done: discussion by every group members.