Foo Sharks... Our Software Bites

Weekly Management Reports:

Week 1 (1/7/2008 - 1/14/2008):

Accomplishments:

Drafted Project Bids (Everyone)

created web site (Jared)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance) (ordered by importance):

Start project plan (Everyone)

Finalize project details (everyone)

Needs:

None

Week 2 (1/14/2008 - 1/19/2008):

Accomplishments:

Setup SVN server and created code placeholders (Jared)

Finalized game concept (Seth, Justin/Jared)

started project plan (Justin, Seth/Jared)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Finish project plan (Everyone)

Start SRS (Jared)

get dev. libraries working (Jared)

start graphics/Sound/Input engines (TBD)

Needs:

None

Week 3 (1/19/2008 - 1/26/2008):

Accomplishments:

Project Plan 75% complete

Jared: Project Overview, Process Model, Boundaries and Interfaces, Reviews, Management Priorities

Justin: Project Definitions, References, Teams Skills and Experience

Seth: Organizational Structure and Responsibilities, Requirements

Drafted initial workload distribution (Jared, Justin and Seth accepted responsibilities by vote and weighted averages of our skills)

Researched Development Libraries (Jared: Mouse pointers and BlueTooth Wii Remotes, Seth: OpenAL, Justin: OpenGL)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Finish project plan (Jared acting as team leader will post to our website, with Seth and Justin to agree upon team's project plan documentation changes)

Finish SRS (Jared will hand in, Justin and Seth give input)

SDS (Jared will post to web, Justin and Seth will provide input)

start graphics engine (Justin)

start Sound engine (Seth)

start Input wrapper (Jared)

Needs:

None

Week 4 (1/26/2008 - 2/2/2008):

Accomplishments:

Project Plan complete

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Project Plan on website (Jared)

SRS 75% complete (All)

Jared: project overview, product perspective, overview of functional and data requirements, user interface requirements, detailed description

Justin: definitions, references, scenarios

Seth: user personas, general constraints, performance requirements, quality attributes

SDS

section 2 - Justin, Seth

UI pics Jared

section 3 Jared

work on graphics engine (Justin)

work on Sound engine (Seth)

work on Input wrapper (Jared)

Needs:

None

Week 5 (2/2/2008 - 2/9/2008):

Accomplishments:

SRS done

SDSv1 almost done

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

SDS

polish and post v1 - Jared

section 2 - Justin, Seth

UI pics Jared

section 3 Jared

Needs:

None

Week 6 (2/9/2008 - 2/16/2008):

Accomplishments:

SDSv1 & v2 done

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

VVP - Justin, Seth

finish Graphics subsystem - justin

finish sound subsystem - seth

input subsystem - jared

integrate subsystems, create game class outline and working dummy app with subsystems - Jared

Needs:

None

Week 7 (2/16/2008 - 2/23/2008):

Accomplishments:

VVP done

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Fix VVP problems - Jared

prepare for SR1:

finish Graphics subsystem - justin

finish sound subsystem - seth

input subsystem - jared

integrate subsystems, create game class outline and working dummy app with subsystems - Jared

Needs:

None

Week 8 (2/23/2008 - 3/1/2008):

Accomplishments:

Setup and tested SVN clients

created class outlines for all objects

tested alternate audio library and decided to change to the new library (FMOD)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Continue SR1 preparation:

player, puzzle element, and puzzle field: Jared

AudioSample, MusicTrack, MusicBar: Seth

modeling, textures, DrawableObject, GraphicsMain: Justin

Needs:

None

Week 9 (3/1/2008 - 3/8/2008):

Accomplishments:

Finished AudioSample class using FMOD (all baseline audio code is done) (Seth & Jared)

VS Project now compiles wth no errors or warnings (Jared)

Graphics engine can now create and manage a window properly (Justin)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Continue SR1 preparation (Code and test by VVP for VVR1):

player, puzzle element, and puzzle field: Jared

MusicTrack, MusicBar: Seth

DrawableObject, GraphicsMain: Justin

Needs:

None

Week 10 (3/8/2008 - 3/15/2008):

Accomplishments:

SR1 finished!

Graphics engine now fully working, DrawableObject, GraphicsMain (Justin)

MusicTrack reads and plays a song file in full 5.1 (Seth)

Multi-mouse interface now working 100% (Jared)

Base framework has been integrated into a test app and is working (Jared, Justin)

Created some test track files (Seth, Justin, Jared)

Test results compiled into VVR (Jared)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

Now that the base framework is complete, it's time to build a game!

player, puzzle element, and puzzle field: Jared

MusicBar, GUI: Seth

Material class, Tighten up the graphics, also models & songs: Justin

Needs:

None

Week 11 (3/15/2008 - 3/22/2008):

spring break

Week 12 (3/23/2008 - 3/30/2008):

Accomplishments:

MusicBar (100% working, notes pulse, spin in time): Seth

models (speaker box, drumset): justin

model loading code rewrite: justin

material loader: jared

wiimote enumeration and mapping: jared

full scene blur (render to texture method): jared

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

player, puzzle element, and puzzle field: Jared

MusicBar, GUI: Seth

Tighten up the graphics more, also models & songs: Justin

Testing/documentation for SR2/VVR2 (justin, seth, jared)

Needs:

For demo day, we will need a large space with a projector screen.

Week 13 (3/31/2008 - 4/5/2008):

Accomplishments:

Player, PuzzleElement, PuzzleField (jared)

MusicBar works (seth)

Graphics are getting tighter (Justin)

VVR2 testing

VVR2 doc (Justin)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

blur, tighter graphics , also models & songs: Justin

front end menu: Seth

clean up wiimote motion (and optimize) : Jared

Finish game-play object integration (Seth, Justin)

Tests for VVR3 (Seth, Justin, Jared)

VVR3 writeup (Seth)

SR3 compilation and installer packaging (Jared)

Needs:

For demo day, we will need a large space with a projector screen (a projector would be nice, but not we can provide our own).

Week 14 (4/6/2008 - 4/12/2008):

Accomplishments:

Blur works! But not exactly motion blur... using a custom procedural texture map to achieve a very cool convolution effect. (Jared)

new mouse cursor model (Justin)

front-end ui works (Seth)

game scoring works (Justin/Seth)

SR3 binary/source release packaged (Jared)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

clean up wiimote motion (and optimize) : Jared

content: songs and samples... 2 songs from each group member

gameplay testing: Seth, Justin

recording samples: Jared

Final report write up (Seth, Justin, Jared)

Final beta testing (seth, justin, jared)

package binary release in MSI installer (Jared)

Needs:

Front table/area in WEB 130 for demo day. Projector for demo (not required but would be nice).

Week 15 (4/13/2008 - 4/19/2008):

Accomplishments:

Wiimote motion is now smooth and accurate... also compensates for roll and being upside down (Jared)

Final release posted(Jared)

MSI package delayed due to issue with directory permissions in Windows Vista

UI tweaks (seth)

in game voice sounds (seth)

splash-screen graphics (justin)

Gameplay testing (justin)

Final report nearly complete (Justin, Seth)

Goals & Priorities (ordered by importance):

finish final report (seth, justin)

Prep for demo

content for demo day: songs and samples... 1 song from each group member

Fix issue with MSI installer (Jared)

Needs:

Front table/area in WEB 130 for demo day. Projector for demo (not required but would be nice).