week 13

progress is going smooth with the project ..

i have already done the introduction, the main page and also ive been adding in the contents for the diseases section !! haha.. my project is pretty much "diseased".. (just kidding)

anyways, this week we were told that we have to finish up 100% for week 15 since ms megan would be down on week 16 and our work would be handed over to her directly..

ms jeya also said that next friday we should test our work in the production lab ! i hope things would go smoothly !! we would only know once testing is carried out .. i have already designed the game section too, im just working on the action script now!!! there seems to be some error and i need to figure that out asap !!

argh.. these last few weeks are really really really really STRESSFUL !!!!!!

week 12

bad news and good news this week !!!!

although i was all geared up to show my work last week... i wasn't able to make it on the day due to some unavoidable circumstances. as i assumed, ms jeya needed some reasonable explanation and proof and i was able to do that ! :) atleast i wasnt faking it and skipping class for no reason ..

anyways, i contacted her on the day itself and informed her and she asked me to come see her this monday so i went to her office and showed her some work..

i had some problems with the actions scripts for the introduction movie and she helped me figure out it !!!

the problem was that the link to the next scene through a movie clip wasnt working .. and it was a simple problem that i hadnt included the frame number !!!!!!! so basically, it was just a simple "1" that was causing all the problems ..

sometimes , debugging can be a real problem .. especially when you have been starring at the same thing for so long and nothing seem to be wrong although its not working too! argh..

week 11

oh nooo...

we got a bit of a shock this week .. it was rather unexpected !

ms jeya suddenly informed us that she wants to see our system atleast 50% done and that she would be grading us on what we have done so far !!! i have completed only about 30% so far truth be told ..

anyways, i guess this would get me geared up !! i need to work on the intro and the main page atleast.. i have been searching for the contents. i got some information from a clinic too regarding dengue but i still have to find more sources regarding chikungunya !!

(just to refresh you.. my project is about AEDES AWARENESS and dengue and chikungunya are the two main diseases im focussing on !!! )

week 10

actually this week was a bit confusing ..

this is because when we informed ms jeya that our scope was reduced by mr.luke she was a bit surprised. however, i guess this was done because we are really running against time at the moment.. its a good thing as well as a bad thing i guess..

the good thing about it would be that we could finish up early and then think of additional elements and testing. the bad thing is that our final year project wouldnt be as grand i guess? oh well, its a final "semester" project afterall !!

anyways, moving onto what i did this week.. i checked our some action script books from the library and also i was working on the intro animation .. i am still collecting information about how to do the game.. i have a few ideas and im not too sure whether i would have the time to create a few short games or whether i should solely focus on one ..

lets see how it goes ! :)

week 09 - lukes visit !

mr.luke came down this week for the vu visit and we really learnt alot !!

he gave us so much ideas and so many sources to get sound effects and other stuff from ! he showed us alot of examples too which was a good thing because theres always something to learn from them!!

another good idea that he gave was to always get feedbacks from people and pretend its not your work so that you would end up getting a honest feedback!

uhm, oh yeah.. he also gave us daily tasks that were to be completed for the next day !! it was pretty motivating i would say because atleast we were all forced to do some level of work and we knew we had to do it !!

i got alot of work done this week and i got my confusions cleared out too .. he said i could demo on a pc and i dont need to demo on a touch screen as i was told before !! yay ..