Katie's Update October 23rd - October 30th (from Wordpress)

What did you plan to do?

• Finish the game...
• Gather playtesting data
• Familiarize with Assembla

What did you do?

• Continued work on the game
• Finished putting game info online
• Worked within Assembla

What problems did you encounter?

• We have still not released for wide-spread playtesting
• Code keeps changing/breaking unexpectedly...even with Assembla and SVN being utilized
• Time is in short supply
• Halloween Game Night is tonight, planning prevents me from being at the meeting

What do you plan to do next week?

• Bug tracking and resolving
• Get this game out for playtesting

How many hours did you work?
~5 total

Chrsitie Thornton Weekly Summary

Summary Questions (10/17 – 10/23)

1. What did you plan to do?
- iphone development

2. What did you do?

iPhone dev: Pages 45 - 61

- view controllers and how they respond to orientation changes.

- orientation controls

- attaching views to windows

- attaching text boxes and editing text

- CGRectangle and creating and placement of windows and views

- the advanced capabilities of the view controller as apposed to creating a
view and adding them
to a window

3. What problems did you encounter?
- some trouble understanding syntax. Using Objective C tutorial for clarification. Nested method calls caused some confusion, and the syntax for pointers threw me off, but Evie helped clarify that.

4. What are you doing next week?

- css tutorial

- implementing website designs using css

- iphone dev

5. How many hours did you work?
- 9 hours

Katie's Update October 16th - October 23rd (from Wordpress)

What did you plan to do?

• Alter the Missions page in order to eliminate non-functional elments
• Regulate egroupware to ensure it is being used by all team members
• Snag’em needs to be readied for playtesting by Friday!

What did you do?

• Updated Missions Page, changed functionality
• Moved information and previous uploads over to Assembla
• Began utilizing SVN
• Troubleshooting certain areas of the game
• Put game info online and formatted

What problems did you encounter?

• I am still exponentially slower at programming than other people working on the project...
• Even with SVN, there are issues with things being overwritten and old code returning to the project

What do you plan to do next week?

• Finish the game...
• Gather playtesting data
• Familiarize with Assembla

How many hours did you work?
~20 total

Raven Oct.17-23

1)What did you plan to do?-Work on tutorials and examples so I can learn about php.
2)What did you do?- I uploaded the FAQs to the the Admin/help php file. I went through the new assembla website, so that I could understand how to use all the functions and know how to retrieve info from the site.
3)What problems did you encounter?- I didn't encounter any problems this week.
4) What are you doing next week?-Next week I will be working on a write up of the Snag'em game. I will also continue to teach myself php.
5)How many hours did you work? 10

Christie Thornton Weekly Update (10/10 - 10 -16)

Summary Question (10/10 – 10/16)

1. What did you plan to do?
- I phone development, I wanted to become familiar with the interface builder
- created new skins for snaggem
- Work with josh on php


2. What did you do?
- create 2 new skins for snaggem
- working through Ch 3 in my iPhone dev book.
- Worked with josh on linux

3. What problems did you encounter?
- sometimes the book I am using to code for iPhone is vague about certain concepts

4. What are you doing next week?\
- more iPhone dev
- php

5. How many hours did you work?
-13 hours

Thomas Bi-monthly update #3

Oct. 2nd - 16th

SNAGEM Spelman was successful. Turnout was good, had 40+ players register.

1. What did you plan to do?
Get Apple Developer Account

Get Snagem v2.0 ready for UNCC

•Skin the website

•Fix the registration process

•Create the Snag process

•Create Missions

•Flesh out the database schema more

•Log in system

•Gameplay design

•Bring existing features from v1.0 to v2.0

•Documentation

2. What did you do?
Got Apple Developer Account

•Skined the website

•Fixed the registration process

•Still working on the Snag process

•Still working on creating Missions

•Fleshed out the database schema more

•Log in system is done

•Gameplay design is nearly complete

•Still bringing existing features from v1.0 to v2.0

•Completed more Documentation

3. What problems did you encounter?
I came down with the flu the first week and had food poisoning the second week. Not having SVN makes collaborative programming difficult. The eGroupWare Project Management System is difficult to work with sometimes.

4. What are you doing next week?
•iPhone Development

•Finishing Development on SNAGEM v2.0
•Play testing SNAGEM v2.0

5. How many hours did you work?
- 32 hrs

Katie's Update October 9th - October 16th

What did you plan to do?

• Finish establishing Snag’Em website functionality
• Release Snag’Em for play testing ASAP
• Get Mission generation fully functional **top priority**
• Get Tags page fully functional **top priority**

What did you do?

• Worked on Snag'Em Website functionality
• Mission page has minimum functionality
• Debugged registration
  

What problems did you encounter?

• Still no SVN...this has resulted in information/code being erased due to the number of people working on the project
• The Mission page is not working in the way I envisioned it working, although we have minimum functionality...it's not as appealing and intuitive a page as I would like.
• Every step is more time consuming than it should be....issues with SVN and the database being altered
  

What do you plan to do next week?

• Alter the Missions page in order to eliminate non-functional elments
• Regulate egroupware to ensure it is being used by all team members
• Snag'em needs to be readied for playtesting by Friday!
  

How many hours did you work?
~15 total

Samantha update 10/09/09 - 10/16/09

What did you plan to do?

Help with mission types

Outline paper

What did you do?

- Learned about phpMyAdmin (~1 hour)

- Helped put mission types / tags into the database (~3 hours)

- Met with Thomas (~5 hours)

- designed registration

- made design changes

- wrote out things to be fixed

- Read more tutorials on php / sql (~ 1 hour)

- Looked for papers (~ 2 hours)

What problems did you encounter?

I'm having a hard time finding useful papers. A very hard time.

What do you plan to do next week?

Until development is complete, help with that

When it is complete, do more papery stuff

How many hours did you work?

~12 hours

Katie's Update October 2nd - October 9th

What did you plan to do?

• More research
• Prototype the team building game
• Prototype the exercise game
• Develop a full feature-request list for both games
• Find out everything possible about the iPhone related to: Networking, GPS, Friend Finder, Foursquare, Maps, and Distance Calculations

What did you do?

• Lots and lots of research
• Finalized ideas for team building and exercise game
• Started on prototypes for the above games
• Added to the feature-request list for Snag’Em
• Looking into programming with Objective C
• Finally got my hands in the Snag’Em code base (for a very, very long time…)

What problems did you encounter?

• SVN isn’t working, so conflicts are arising in the code base
• I’m still slow with working in the Snag’Em code base, but Drew has been a huge help and I’m making lots of progress
• Pulled my first all-nighter of the project and worked for nearly 12 hours straight! This is a problem due to lack of sleep, but a huge success as far as progress is concerned.
• Issues are coming up about playability features such as remembering the code, mission generation, etc.
• There is still a lot to do before our CCI release in one week

What do you plan to do next week?

• Finish establishing Snag’Em website functionality
• Release Snag’Em for play testing ASAP
• Get Mission generation fully functional **top priority**
• Get Tags page fully functional **top priority**

How many hours did you work?
~25 total

Christie Thornton Weekly Report (10/3-10/9))

1. What did you plan to do?
- begin iphone dev
- artwork for snagem

2. What did you do?
- read and completed chapters 1 and 2 of iphone dev book
- edited my webspace
- logging resources and links used in learning how to program for iPhone
- completed 4 mini iPhone programs (using tutorials on icode blog).

3. What problems did you encounter?
- the examples in the book weren’t very useful, so I had to resort to the internet to find useful examples

4. What are you doing next week?
- iPhone Dev!!! More specifically I want to become familiar with using the interface builder. I started working on it this week, but I want to get to the point where I can work with interface builder without having to follow a tutorial.
- modify the new look for snaggem that conforms to specs listed on the website

5. How many hours did you work?
- 11 hrs

Raven Sept.28 - Oct.2

1)What did you plan to do?
-I planned to work on creating the objects needed for a “Don’t Cheat” animation. Also after creating the ojbects I will continue to do flash tutorials for the animation of the objects.-Also I will be creating a trouble shoot page for the game. I will be working with Thomas and Drew to collect the data. -Post my game idea to the website, and continue brainstorming on that idea.
2)What did you do?
- I created my objects and I am now starting the animations.- I went through the posts of problems with the site and created a page for Snag’em Game problems.- I uploaded my game idea to the groupware site.
3)What problems did you encounter?
-I didn’t run into any unexpected issues, just lack of familiarity with the software.-I wasn’t able to locate the information I needed at first for the trouble shoot page.-I didn’t have the host and user name login to upload material.
4) What are you doing next week?
-Next week I will be working on my website.-I will start looking into other game ideas, or ways I could expand my own idea.
5)How many hours did you work? 12

Josh Sept 30th - Oct 9th

Summary Questions

1. What did you plan to do?

- Create Game Idea
- Look at Security problems with codendi and server
- Get backups
- Create profile on codendi
- Help with getting secure data storage of our data on our server so hacker's can access it.
- Look into CSS customizing for the site
- Contact CCI Tech for a copy of Adobe Suite


2. What did you do?
- Made offsite backup of Virtual Machine
- Loaded REU data back on machine
- Helped Evie put SVN on host
- Removed directory listings for Game server Apache server
- Created user group "webusers" instead of a "root" all enviroment
- Locked all folders except /var/www so that in the event of a hack via ssh only root and arena
users could change
- Created an off site backup
- Allowed remote login through logmein.com so that we can get into xcode and server
-

3. What problems did you encounter?
- Not having RHD repositories
- Midterms
- SVN went down


4. What are you doing next week?
- Try to get a setup of a svn
- Learn more details of PHP
- Figure out why when server restarts reset apache
- Continue when time allows working on css
- Add users as needed
- Talk to Scott or Tam to get Repositories setup for Red Hat and make another backup
- Looking into getting trixbox back up online
- Add users so everyone can learn php and mysql


5. How many hours did you work?

- 12 hrs

Samantha update 3: 10/02/2009 - 10/09/2009

What did you plan to do?

Begin reading research papers

What did you do?

- collected 6 relevant research papers thus far (read introduction / methods / results for all to get brief overview) and am organizing them so they're easily accessible for when we're writing the paper. (~4 hours)

- read two of them very thoroughly and took helpful notes (~ 3 hours)

- wrote up document explaining what information we can find in each of the papers and the sources they cite. (~2 hours)

- studied HTML and learned about CSS so I can help with development of site (~ 3 hours)

- received email from IRB requesting some edits and worked on fixing that up (~ .5 hours)

What problems did you encounter?

There was some information I didn't include in the IRB involving the email exchanges with professors where they say they'll use Snag'em as extra credit or "service learning" credits. Need to figure out if that exists yet, or if I need to go ahead and begin it.

What do you plan to do next week?

- Begin outlining the paper we'll write

- Write up / begin writing up related work / motivation sections

- Help with development in some way

How many hours did you work?

~12.5 hours

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Thomas Bi-monthly update #2

September 16th - Oct 1st

1. What did you plan to do?
Get Snagem ready for Spelman
and give support for it

Specifics:
•Encrypt Passwords
•Get version ready for Geek Week at Spelman University by Sept. 25st!!!
•Little Logo 16x16 favicon
•No Border for iframe
•Generate leaderboard last so that players can see results of their actions immediately rather than the next time they refresh the page.
•Google Analytics add tracking code
•Design and Implement new Database schema
•Write new PHP Code to work with new database schema
•Create new Survey on SurveyMonkey.com
•Add new mission types to new version
•Enable Texting
•Fix the TextMark service so that users input 'snagem' as the keyword
•Test play
•Add flash animations
•log in after registering (just turn on the session variable)
•redirect pages after all pages that make changes to database
•Add more information in the Account page
•Add agreement clause to the registration page to allow use of anonymous data
•Fix the validation for registration
•Fix the interests sections
•Fix the registration process
•Fix it so that when there are less than 10 players registered the game cannot start
•Fix it so that when a player is about to snag the last possible person they have to wait until another player is registered
•Take away a point for trying to snag made up numbers
•Admin page
•You should get a point for getting snagged
•Change the style of the site to look more INVITING instead of deadly and sniperish
•Write the instructions clearer and have images
•When deleting players system should automatically find affected players and fix their missions
•After deleting players it shouldn't break the snagem process.
•Admin page should have "Logs"
•Make the site 100% valid XHTML according to the W3C Standards
•Fix the css for Internet Explorer
•There is a bug in the logging system that causes new data to overwrite some of the old data
•There should be a help page
•Automatically capitalize the first letter of everyone's names
•Remove all error printing
•Remove all redirects to old server
•Write the "correct" consent check box message as per Samantha
•Write up the instructions for the Spelman version
•Fix some of the colors on the page

2. What did you do?
All the things in the list above except a couple. We still need to finalize the new Snagem version database schema.

3. What problems did you encounter?
Game had a hiccup during play at Spelman had to troubleshoot the problem. It turned out a couple players got a requirement variable from a type 3 mission when their mission was actually type 2.


4. What are you doing next week?
•Starting iPhone Development
•Finishing UNCC version of Snagem!

5. How many hours did you work?
- 30 hrs

Christie Thornton Update

Summary Question (9/25 – 10/2)

1. What did you plan to do?
- Finalize Spelman logo
-Create a new look for the website that is less offensive
- work with experienced member in troubleshooting team for snagem
- submitting ticket to tech support for creative software (High Priority)
- start reading iphone dev book
- completely finish website
-incorporate logo into animation

2. What did you do?
- Finalize Spelman logo
- Create a new look for the website that is less offensive
- work with experienced member in troubleshooting team for snagem
- submitting ticket to tech support for creative software (High Priority)
- start reading iphone dev book


3. What problems did you encounter?
- had trouble pulling meeting notes off of site

4. What are you doing next week?
- iPhone Dev!!!

5. How many hours did you work?
- 10 hrs

Katie's Update September 25th - October 2nd

What did you plan to do?

- Learn MySQL
- Learn PhP
- Learn HTML
- Learn CSS
- Develop plans for iPhone Exercise game
- Develop plans for iPhone Team Building game
- Snag 'em support
- Get my web site up

What did you do?

- Got waivers/alterations of consent to Samantha for the IRB
- Developed pitch for team building game
- Developed pitch for exercise game
- Reading relevant papers on:
- how games motivate
- team building
- exercise games
- Worked on website
- this has been a way to practice PhP, HTML, and CSS
- Studying SQL so I can assist with database side issues

What problems did you encounter?

- I don't care for UNCC web space, I'm going to move my site onto UNCC makes games this weekend.
- I have the ear canals of a toddler and have ended up with yet another ear infection
- Exercise games for the iPhone present a variety of design challenges

What do you plan to do next week?

- More research
- Prototype the team building game
- Prototype the exercise game
- Develop a full feature-request list for both games
- Find out everything possible on iPhone:
- Networking
- GPS
- Friend Finder
- Foursquare
- Maps
- Distance calculation

How many hours did you work?
~15 total

Samantha Update 2: 09/26/09 - 10/02/09

What did you plan to do?

- Finish IRB

- Write up everything that needs to be included, such as:

- Informed consent

- control survey

- qualitative survey

- information collection survey

- pre-game questionnaire

- post-game questionnaire

- recruitment slide

What did you do?

- Finished IRB, made lots of changes and updates. (~1.5 hours)

- Wrote up everything that needs to be included, such as:

- Informed consent (~.5 hours)

- Recruitment slide (~.5 hours)

- control survey (~.5 hours)

- qualitative survey (~.5 hours)

- information collection survey (~ 1 hour)

- pre-game questionnaire (~1 hour)

- post-game questionnaire(~1 hour)

- Spoke to Dr. Lipford about social networking stuff (~1 hour)

- Began looking at CHI and C&T for relevant papers (~ 2 hours)

- Wrote up informed consent for Spelman College (~.5 hours)

What problems did you encounter?

None!

What do you plan to do next week?

I will be beginning to read research papers about social networking integration and look for other sources of groups that have turned physical data into virtual data. I plan to write up the requirements document for what will be necessary for the profile / social networking virtual part. I may choose to write up a usability survey regarding this and distribute it to CCI students.

How many hours did you work?

~10 hours