Thursday, June 5th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

This Week 35 – CAWD Game Studio – Final Project Implementation, Testing – Publishing and
All work due Friday June 6th at End of Day (School day – 3:30)
- ~~Monday – Write / Finish Game Testing Questions~~
- ~~Tuesday – Alpha Testing with each other –~~
- ~~Wednesday – Beta Testing with other classes~~
- Thursday – final sprints and Beta Testing with other classes
- Friday – game showcase and end of Academic Year!

Week 36– end of year activities
- Monday – Web Certification Exam
- Tuesday – Movies (MI:7 Final Reckoning)
- Wednesday – Visitors, Clean Up / Pack up for SkillsUSA
- Thursday – Recognition Night, Last Day
- Our end of year CTE Recognition Night is Thursday, June 12th at 6:30pm. It’s a wonderful way to celebrate our time together, take some photos, win scholarships, and kick off the summer! Please make sure to get off work, and let family know ahead of time.
- Minute to Win It Games
Vermont Highway Safety Alliance (VHSA), VHSA Members/Partners/Sponsors, DMV Commissioner Collier, and Lt. Governor Rodgers will meet on June 6^th at 10AM to celebrate the seventh annual student PSA video contest winners.
Event Location: Vermont Supreme Courthouse, Conference Room 110, 111 State Street, Montpelier, VT(Please see directions with map and photos for access to the meeting room)
Planning to attend? Or not – either way…Contact: Darren McIntyre, Vermont Highway Safety Alliance – if you are not planning to attend (and attending is not required) contact Darren with your mailing address so he can you you your money! Darren.McIntyre@uvm.edu

10:10 Web Professionals Test Prep

Here’s the deal: Complete at least 30 questions and if you have an accuracy rating at 85% or better, you may take an early lunch beginning at 12:15pm today.

10:30 CAWD Game Studio

Final Sprints – We have visitors from PreTech and CST coming at 11am. The will test and provide feedback for your games.

Game Presentations for Friday – LTR (Left to Right)

On Friday morning at 10:45is each Game will make a short presentation about their game. Google Slides might be the easiest way for you to organize yourselves. However if you want to make a website, google site, wix site, PDF, video,….. you decide.

Your presentation will include:

Name of your Game
Description & Overview of the Game
The core game mechanic
The inspiration for your game
Challenges you faced when creating your game (try to explain)
Feedback you received during playtesting
What you are happy about or what you learned/improved on
What’s next (If you continued to develop your game, what would you do) to bring it to market

You are encouraged to use screenshots, code examples, pics.
Pro Tip: Less words makes for better presentations!

It’s casual – just share what you learned!

CAWD Studio Game Final Deliverables

Deliverables:

In the process of building your game, you will use a Trello board to track and share your progress. Each week there will be updates from you or your game team on the status of your deliverable. If you work alone, you will provide the update.

Every game will have a Trello board. It will count as 100 points. You’ll earn full points for being detailed and less points for less detail!

Every game will have a Game Design Document. It will count as 100 points. You’ll earn full points for a nicely well thought out document with no typos, errors and grammatically error free. I’ll provide you with a template. Have someone proofread your work.

Every game will be tested to provide user feedback. That feedback will be collected with a Google Form. It will count as 100 points. – You will summarize your feedback and identify actionable steps.

Every game will be scored for playability. It will count as 100 points. If we can play it and the game has some objective with Win / Lose conditions you may earn up to full point value.

Every game will be published on Unity Play or as .exe game. It will count as 50 points. Full credit for publishing, no credit for not publishing.

Every game will is required to have a Home Screen and a Credits screen in addition to the game play. It will count as 100 points. The nicer the UI and the inclusion ( game over, score, health, damage and other UI elements) is desirable. However, an effective UI is what you are after.

Game Salesperson. You are the ambassador for your game. As game ambassador, you can earn up to 50 points for being able to speak about and sell your game to others. This can be demonstrated when telling others about your game.

Total points: 600 points!

All Games must be complete for grading on Friday, June 6th

If you are not here on Friday, you will make your presentation on Monday after the Web Professionals Exam

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 Beta Testing – CAWD Game Studio

Today – Testing – Beta
CST and PreTech2 students will join us from 11-11:55am for game testing. You’ll need your questions and to be a good ambassador for your game.

Review your feedback and work to tackle the areas that need fixing.

Review Feedback – Work on Presentation when visitors leave…

12:25 Lunch

12:55 Independent Reading

1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

1:30 Creativity Challenge

Each day this week, after break we’ll take on a creative challenge. You do not have to share these out, just participate and enjoy the process.

Creativity isn’t a magical gift; it’s a skill that can be developed and nurtured. Do you enjoy the creative process? Personally I get me best ideas when I am unplugged and in the zone of some other experience. This happens when I go running (I don’t do music), in the shower and when driving my car. When and where are you most creative?

Today’s creative challenge is: Daydreaming – Seriously! We’ll start with a walk outside in the wildflower garden, then find a quiet space to … space out. About 15 minutes.

1:45 Final Project Work / MakeUp work or Throw in the Towel /

Consider this your last organized independent work time of the year. Have some incompletes, go at them. Be ready to deliver your game presentation tomorrow.