Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org
Today’s Notes & Attendance
Congratulations Vermont Highway Safety Alliance Students !
There is an award Ceremony at the State House in Montpelier. You may attend and you will be excused from class. You do not have to go. You will get your $$ by mail. Let me know today if you plan to miss class for the ceremony.
- Tobi Thurman (Breaking Up) as the top choice ($500)
- Elizabeth (Oh My Duck) as the 2nd choice ($250)
- Peyton (Put the Phone Down) as 3rd choice ($150)
- Alexander (Don’t Let the Music Take the Wheel) as 4th place ($100)
- 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.
10:10 Monday Mail
10:15 FIRE DRILL
10:25 Independent Game Production
Right now you are in good shape if you have:
- Shared a Trello board and are keeping it updated
- Shared your Game Design Document and it is free of errors and thorough
- Have a UI (Splash Screen / Credits screen) working properly
- Recorded your Core Mechanic (and met the recording deliverables) and submitted
- Have some sort of game play happening
- Started on your testing questions
This morning, we are going to put the final touches on the Alpha of your game. On Tuesday, you each will test each other’s games out and provide crucial feedback. In most game studios, Alpha testing is done by those who are involved with the project.
We are working towards game play and testing for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
The testing & implementation phase is an essential part of the game development cycle. Testing or Quality Assurance includes careful planning, documentation of bugs and errors and follow up on the fixes that need to be made.
Before you start testing, it is a good idea to develop a test plan. The test plan details exactly what kind of performance tasks/tests need to be made. Basically, what are you testing? This might be the ease of use of the GUI, the core game mechanic, the story, user inputs and or the user experience.
On Friday I asked you to create a Google Form with your testing questions. Plan for 4-6 questions to test about your game. Dropbox for your Google Form is in Google Classroom. Complete this today to stay on track.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 CAWD Game Studio Work Time
Work time 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. This may be:
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. You’ll share your learning with us on Friday
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 on Friday. Your revision can earn up to 5 points which is a half grade change.
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: Doodling
If you need a prompt, draw a circle and fill in and outside the lines
1:45 Final Project Work / MakeUp work or Throw in the Towel
Independent Project work time
2:38 Dailies
