Another busy week for all of us, and we spent some times setting up the game play for LexiConquest. We also decided to cu one of our characters, Cthulhu, which was my responsibility to model and rig. I spent some time researching about rigging a complex character like Cthulhu, that we can always add to the project once we finish our main characters. I’ve been working on the other character, Robin Hood, since Friday, and I have the basic geometry of the character done, and soon I will start to add details to him. I think the modeling of Robin Hood will be done by the end of the following week.

Website update:

I spent the entire last week doing research about Drupal, and I am amazed by the power, flexibility, and customization of this CMS. I found many good online sources in addition to the documentations available on Drupal.org for themeing Drupal 6.X. Making a theme for Drupal is quite different than for other famous content management systems such as Joomla and Wordpress. There are some basic things that a developer should to know, such as modules and blocks, before making a theme from scratch or modifing a theme. So I spent sometimes learning the concept, and anatomy of drupal, and the modules that are necessary to know for themeing Drupal. Now I feel very confident to start on coding the site, but the next step after this would be designing three templates for the website. I try to tackle this after finishing my character.

More to come…

This week we have all started modeling our respected characters. We did decide to cut Cthulu out of the mix for now based on the complexity of rigging him. We are retaining all the research we have on him so we can add him in if we have time. We have planned out the actual play that will take place in the guided game experience and edited some of the cards and what they do during that time. We plan on having the user play a ten turn tutorial, resulting ultimately in their victory.  We have also started thinking about sound design and what kind of music and effects we might want. Lauren and Mike are both taking Audio Production this term and have access to the Music Industry room and some extra sound equipment, so we want to hopefully get sounds done near the end of this term. We also did a breakdown of work, which we have concerns about that we will mention Tuesday. The breakdown is as follows: Ben 20% (started both his character models), Mike 20% (Started work on King Arthur and the Library), Lauren (Started preliminary sculpting of Tiny Tim), Jason 15% (Finished up research for programming, started the Tripod), Hessam 15% (finished up Drupal research, started Robin Hood), Tracy 10% (Being brought up to speed and integrated into the team).