Thursday 10th November - Nightmare Changes!

After meeting with Rob it has come to both of our attention that my project was running extremely slow, so i have take a selection of steps to improve this including:

   Running the entire patch from one main bpatcher, eliminating the use of uneccersary strain on the computers processers by simply allow max msp to "offset" what it is veiwing, meening that everything is shown in one long line and just browsed through left and write.

 Designed a new glow system - simply replaced the counter and metro with a line object, again creating less work for the computer. I also edited the glow so that the file which is glowing only goes down to 30 percent allowing to "pulse" rather than fade in and out.

These changes shouldn't be too difficult, although it does meen total re-design of max msp patch, i have added previews of the most current version as a pictures below
 This is the users view of the hompage ( left ) when clarkes shop is selected the patch simply moves to the right displaying clarkes shop!

 This is a verion of these screens in presentaton mode of patching

And below is an example of some of the programming needed for this

Finished Version of The Lost Fairy Charms Complete ! Wednesday 16th November

its been a tough 48 hours since we recieved constructive criticism from both the staff at the rotunda, but also rob and mark themselves but we are pleased to report that EVERY suggestion made on monday has been changed. 

This includes implementing the reset system ( show below although very messy it works! )

The finalised Map system ( Again below, much tidier programming )

 The final audio patch ( the top two screens are examples of the programming window, the bottom one is what the mesuem can get onto by pressing esc and - )

After 4 hours of de-bugging i have ensured that the installation runs smoothly, and after trying to crash the system by pressing loads of things at once it also still ran just as well, concluding that this project was a success!

Updates - Monday 14th November

After presenting the final version at the rotunda meusuem it became apparent that we would need to change a number of things, unfortunately largely involving the programming side of things.

These changes consisted off :

    - New Audio -
    - New commentary audio  (more instructive about what to do)
    - New sound effects ( Ambient noise in the game, clicking on objects the user would expect to make a  noise such as the mouse in the shop
    
     - New G.U.I designs -
     - Removed find the charms from the homepage, and added instructive text so that the user HAS to visit clarkes shop to continue the installation. 
     - Simplified help screens.
     - A reset button has been embeded into find the charms, allowing the user to restart the game whenever they wish.
     - More text has been added in a selection of places including Clarkes shop and Find The Charms

     - New System Designs - 
     - Final version of the audio mixer, complete with save functions to be installed for the meusuems use.
     - Writing an entire new map system to embed the reset options into
     - Removing some sections of the installation which were deemed un-neccersary, although added originally too increase interactivity. 
     - Re patch some objects to increase performance within the installation

Finished - Rob Prince

My work is finally complete! The last of the design work has been implemented. That was one tight deadline! Good luck everyone, lets hope for a successful week and a big thanks to my group mates James & Joe for being a great set of guys to work with!

Update - James Stephenson

I have worked on the project all evening yesterday and this morning. I have got all of the required items done from my prevous blog and I am sending all of these through to Joe to finalise that I dont have any more to do.

Update - James Stephenson

After the presentations this morning we got some really good feedback that we are taking into concideration for the final deadline on wednesday.

Personally on my side of things, the feedback was good and helpfull to me. These are the things that I am going to be changing / working on tonight and tomorrow;

Main Screen

• ·      Look at the audio files to make sure they are right

Clark’s shop

• ·      Get some sound effects (mouse, cat, cow, bottles, fish tank)
• ·      Edit new audio (entering and re entering shop)
• ·      Record table top vocal

Game

• ·      Entering location sound, (old game music)
• ·      correct sound, (old game music with spoken word)
• ·      wrong sound, (old game music with spoken word)

·   

Other

• ·      List of ques for sounds, screen by screen.

II will do an update when I have completed all of the above tonight and early tomorrow.

Update - James Stephenson

I have met up a few times with Joe in the research studio at uni to work on the project. We have the patch running well however there are things that need to be sorted before the deadline on monday. We worked on things such as;

• Making all of the buttons consistent and in the same place on each page
• Made it so all of the ubuttons and clicable icons were sent to the right patch to open.
• etc

I am confident we will get all of the work done in time.