Thursday, March 5th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Thursday!
Remember that the focus this week is:
- Week 23 Agency (due Monday as normal)
- Week 23 Skills work (due Friday as normal)
Remember that you end up in English after lunch! And return for a Speed Design!
I will accept missing work right now! Or tomorrow. Let’s get those grades up.

10:05 Attendance

10:10 Skills Production

Game Design Track / Mr. Cronin

Week 23

Feature Lock meeting today:
- 10:30 Agent Flea
- 11:00 Sightless Studios
- 11:30 Greywood Studios
- Today we will detail and limit the extent of the game. Think of putting your thumb over the hose in the summer – constraints can lead to extensions you never even considered. In this step we hope to avoid “feature creep” where more and MORE and MOAR features are added and the project gets unfinishable. We are going to decide today what is our maximum feature set, and then you are going to make that feature set the best it can be.
Alpha Testing Preparation
- Next Thursday @ 10 you will start hosting Game Testers to play your game. You will need:
  - UI
  - Sound
  - Multi Levels
  - A playable core gameplay loop. Points, lives, battling, respawning on death or time that runs out, etc.
  - Demonstration of the main mechanic your team is working on – always going back to what your team said they were going to do:
    - Agent Flea – Defeating enemies that are spawning in waves.
    - Sightless Studios – Hack n’ slash combat. Collecting fragments.
    - Greywood Studios – Puzzles.

Deliverable

Feature lock meeting with Mr. Cronin today.
30 second rough edit of new features that you haven’t shown off, and are new this week.

Call your file gameStudioNameWeek23.mp4 and pull out anything OBS if you are looking for the A. Sound required as well if looking for the A as well – in game preferred, but we can hear it in the edit.

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 Skills Production

11:40 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a dystopian novel by George Orwell that explores totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and the manipulation of truth through the story of Winston Smith in the superstate of Oceania, ruled by the omnipresent Party and its figurehead, Big Brother.

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

11:55 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:25 English

1:10 Afternoon Break

1:25 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 15 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production

Week 23 Agency

lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg

Or Skills work…

2:15 Dailies

2:20 “19 Minutes”

Every day in GAWD will end with “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.