Meeting 10

WEEK 10 

• Got clean code book from library - The project management and pragmatic programmer will be available on the 14th
• Started writing the interim / literature review - taking list of quotes and building the document
• Setup the galaxy tab2 for deving the game

This week was the most productive to date!

In terms of the interim report, literature review and the game itself it has been a very busy week. To keep it short I'l number the important things that happened instead of explaining it in a long-winded paragraph.

1. I made a back up of everything I'd done that I kept on dropbox and sent it to my gmail (just incase - this will be required again but as alot has changed since then)

2. I had a look at the physics code and figured out that it was a scene issue that was causing it not to activate the physics playing

3. I tried to catagorise the quotes that I had into one file but it was messy and realised that it was better setting up what I wanted to say about a particular subject of the literature review than writing it the body and tryng to find a quote in the catagorised list. For instance; Highsmith (2001) identifies that the waterfall model required a lot of change which disrupted the development process which is a weakness using this model of software development: “A waterfall development life cycle, based on an assumption of a relatively stable business environment, becomes overwhelmed by high change.”

I shall be writing and drawing conclusions this week in my literature review.

4. I got in touch with the game engine developer Brandon from the Modulous team in Ohio and he told me that he was planning major changes in the next 6 months for the engine which would be make it work more efficiently and with more features.

 When I loaded the game onto the galaxy tab it was needed to be re-sized. Which wasn't a problem.

With the tab being a bit smaller than the ipad2 browser, incremental design comes in handy to amend and make the changes.

I plan to get on with the interim report / literature review - the clean code book I got today has been requested and a one week loan means that i will work on getting good quotes out of that firstly.

I am also going to do some more deving of the game - Add all the menu assets and begin the actual game play elements.