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 –
- Be Realistic – gray boxing and gameplay & hit the deliverables
- 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
10:10 CAWD Game Studio
Game Presentations for Friday – LTR
On Friday morning 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 are encouraged to summarize your feedback and identify actionable steps when you share your presentation.
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 Alpha Testing – CAWD Game Studio
Internal Game Testing – we are testing games right after break this morning – whatever you have – to get some really good info on what is going on with each of our game.
I’ll give you 10 minutes to prepare your game and your questions (if you have not finalized your questions then this is a good opportunity to try some questions out with your testers.
Tuesday (today) Testing Rotations – Alpha
We’ll do several rounds of testing for feedback today. Inside rows will test outside rows and vice versa. Remember to be an ambassador for your game and get feedback with your questions.
Wednesday – Testing – Beta
First year CAWD students will join us from 11-11:45am 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.
Game Studio Work or Throw in the Towel (I’m done until game testing feedback)
If you have completed the alpha of your game and do not plan to continue developing, revising and generally working on your CAWD final game project until after game testing, you will need to continue working on a project independently. Before moving on, I’d suggest working on your Game Presentation materials for Friday. Then, you might consider..
A CAWD Knowledge Exchange – where you take your favorite topic, build a lesson and plan to teach us how to do it. You become the teacher and we build, learn, practice with you. We can schedule a day to present next week.
CAWD Project Revision – you take a project from the year that you’d like to improve, add on, revise or just overall go “further”. You’ll share your “mod” with us next week. No grade will change on your revision.
SkillsUSA Practice (if this applies to you)
12:00 Web Professional Test Prep
Here’s the deal: Complete at least 30 questions and if you have an accuracy rating at 85% or better, you may go to lunch! If not, keep going….
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: Write a Poem
If you need a prompt, consider using “summer vacation”
1:45 Final Project Work / MakeUp work or Throw in the Towel
Independent Project work time
2:38 Dailies
