Project Development Issues

Time management issues: I'm bad at it so I have to come up with a hard schedule. I will base it on a weekly to do list.

Skills needed: The skills I'm looking at that I need for this is web development, flash, php, and game story line development. I might also need to know how to use javascript. The good thing about those skills is that I have a base for all of them.

Resources needed: The resources I need are available to me free of charge for the most part. I will need resources on how to do some things with the various languages so I can use Linda a source for that and my mentor will know about the languages also.

Budget: I don't see this project as really costing money unless I need to pay to put my work online for people to see. Otherwise my budget will be about $500.

Team issues: I don't foresee any issues with any team that I have as of now.

Other issues: One of the issues I'm having is coming up with a way to have the game that is not incredibly imposing as the user navigates the site. But I don't want it to be easy either. The other issue is the content on the page but I can wait to cover that because my main purpose is to get the point across for a new way of browsing the web.

Secondary Mentor

For secondary mentor I was thinking of two people outside of the New Media faculty. Those people are Michele Roberts and Andy Harris. I have had classes with both of them and they are really familier with the programming languages that I will be using such as PHP and JavaScript. It will also be helpful to have secondary mentors out side of New Media to get a different point of view on my Capstone.

Mentor for Capstone

For my Capstone project I will be making a website that is a game in itself. In order to get to other pages you have to beat parts of the website to unlock other section of the site. The thing I have to figure out is how I will make that work. Flash could be one method to do this or maybe using PHP and JavaScript. The other issue is what I want the user to be able to unlock, I was thinking it could be either a portfolio or an actual game story. It could even be both.

Key Things I need in a mentor:

Flash, Web Programming, Gaming, and maybe PHP.

Potential Mentors:

Matt Powers, Joseph Defazio, Todd Shelton.

Matt Powers area of expertise is gaming and that will be an aspect of what I'm doing. His acspectation would be to have a game design document. I know this because I'm taking one of his classes in gaming. I don't think he will be very available due to his already booked schedule with students.

Joseph Defazio are of expertise is flash. The way I think my project will work is by using flash to make the website into a more interactive game. He will have room for me to be his mentor.
Todd Shelton are of expertise is also flash and web development. That is more of the combo I will need for this. He will likely be available as long as I can snag him first.

Capstone Category

The capstone I am doing will be an animation about bullying. This would put this in the category of video. As of right now I only have a basis of what it will be like. I was kind of thinking of having animation and live video.

Class Discussion

What I got out of the discussion was confusion about what we can and can't do but hopefully the meeting will clarify that. Something good I got from the discussion is why we do the Capstone project and that's to show case to the real world what we've got. The big thing that came out of the discussion was an idea for my capstone. It is to build a website that is a game itself. I was thinking that you would have to do some kind of thing on the page in order to access the other pages. I have not seen anyone do that before so I would be interested on how that would work.