Summer Plan: Verbal Report Edition

Tomorrow (Friday) we've got the verbal report where we tell Brian, Phil and Claire what we're doing over Summer. The report contains basic information on everyone's primary roles over the Summer break, and which milestones take place over the period (Lewis until 28th June, then Adam until we're back), so this'll be a good reminder about who to go to for information during these periods. The link to the report follows.

Summer Plan: Verbal Report Edition

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Discussion - Summer Plan

Hello guys,

As it's the summer coming up and I know we're all willing to get things done during the break, I thought I'd create this post to aid in discussing who wants to be getting on with what. I know we have a rough plan on knowing what everyone is doing, but it can't hurt to share any more ideas you have in the comments below.


Personally, I'd like to spend some time writing up a few documents justifying our reasoning behind certain elements of our test, and also exploring the things we've considered whether we decide to include the in the final build or not. Studies such as the recently completed environmental ones would be a bonus too, but not entirely necessary.

Currently, work is taking place on our potential alpha build under Lewis' lead that is currently set for completion before the 25th of June. The Milestone 2 Presentation will take place the second week back of next semester, as decided in the previous meeting with Brian and Phil.

I'm sure we'll have far more to discuss after the verbal report on the 25th of May, though the majority of meeting time has been allocated towards discussion of summer work just lately, so we're all well aware of it.

See you soon!

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Team Overview - Week 14 and Week 15

Week 14, Meeting 1:
Date: 11/05/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:10pm
Staff present: Andrew Williams
Location: C2 – 04a

As Claire and Amanda are absent for both week fourteen and fifteen, the team met up with Andrew Williams to discuss work completed on the project so far. This first meeting saw team members giving Andrew a quick synopsis on the project, with further discussion on what are planning on testing, how and all of the work completed thus far. A very positive response was given with encouragement to continue working over the summer period.

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Who are we?

Team Fable is a group of five students working on their 'Level 3 Team Project' at the University of Bolton.

All posts and work uploaded to this blog will be monitored by assessors and all content will count towards the teams final mark.

What is our aim?

Our project aim is to research the usage of non-playable characters in games and investigate what drives player reactions to them.

By researching into this, we hope to evolve storytelling in games by defining the characteristics players find most compelling in NPCs, ultimately leaving with more engaging characters.

What are our roles?

The team roles are as follows:

Kyle Cherry - Research & Documentation.
Lee Sparkes - Human Resources.
Lewis Morgan - Level Design Lead.
Adam Parker - Art Design Lead.
Stephen Austin - Testing Lead.

Despite having specific lead roles, all members in the group will contribute to all areas of the project.

Contact

  • Kyle Cherry - kc1gcc@bolton.ac.uk
  • Lee Sparkes - las1gcc@bolton.ac.uk
  • Lewis Morgan - lrm1gcc@bolton.ac.uk
  • Adam Parker - ajp1gcc@bolton.ac.uk
  • Stephen Austin - swa1gcc@bolton.ac.uk