Stemwerx Echo Team Weekly Blog

Goals of the week: Work on project tasks Establish communications with other XR team Summary of the week:      Last week was more or less the same as the week before that, with each group member working on their assigned tasks. Each group member has made progress in each of their tasks over the week. James Evan worked on the minigames' logic but has not been able to implement them into the Unity project. Scott Swiatek is designing the main menu UI for the game. Devin Ryan has added textures to the buildings in the Unity project. The last thing the group did was establish communications with the XR team that handle the models. Goals for next week: Continue working on project tasks

Goals of the week: Complete Class Assignment Work on tasks Summary of the week:      Last week was a progress check for the group. Ms. Beth and the school wanted to see how the project was coming along, so the group made a presentation for them. The presentation showed what the group completed and had in-game screenshots. The screenshots and a link to the presentation will be listed below. After the group presented their work to Ms. Beth, they shared what tasks each group was working on. Goals for next week: Continue working on tasks Links: Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18wvzVFfKCUH4hu2VSB6gg0GoV7OvtPL-miJq3bM102E/edit?usp=sharing    

  Goals of the week: Present updated Requirements Matrix Work on Tasks Summary of the week:      Last week was more of the same. The group continued to work on the tasks they were assigned. The group has completed only two tasks, the floor/ground task, and the walls task. The group plans to continue working on the tasks and other class assignments throughout the following week. Goals for next week: Work on Tasks Complete Class Assignment

  Goals of the week: Set up Unity Teams Start working on primitives demo Summary of the week:      Last week was a good week for the group. First, the group divvied up objectives amongst members of the group, assigning five objectives per member. Each member then had to create tasks for their respective groups. We discussed how the Requirements Matrix was going during the group's meeting with the sponsor (Ms. Beth). Unfortunately, the updated Requirements Matrix was not ready to be presented to Ms. Beth at the time. However, a presentation of it will happen during the next meeting.      The group also had a discussion with Ms. Beth about their experiences with AR. One group member, Devin Ryan, had the most experience with AR, specifically in a program called Vuforia. The group also discussed setting Unity Teams and how it would affect the groups' work in the coming weeks. Towards the end of the meeting, Ms. Beth and the group made plans for thi...

  Goals of the week: Develop a basic Unity game level with primitives for testing Update the Requirements Matrix Summary of the week:      During the prior week, the group made plans to add tasks to each of the objectives in the Requirements Matrix. Next, the group made plans to set up Unity Teams, a service similar to Github, that would make remote development easier for the team. These plans were shared with the sponsor, Ms. Beth, during the weekly sponsor meeting. Goals of next week: Set up Unity Teams

Goals of the week: Update the Requirements Matrix Determine which version of Unity we'll be using Summary of the week:      Last week was more of the same. The group discussed the changes to the requirements matrix during a meeting last week. During this meeting, the group also discussed which version of Unity should be used for the project. Ultimately the group settled on Unity 2019.4.8f1 with Build Support for Android and iOS. Unfortunately, the group couldn't hold a meeting with the sponsor Ms. Beth because the requirements matrix wasn't ready to be presented yet. Goals of next week: Develop a basic Unity game level with primitives for testing

Goals for this week: Update the Requirements Matrix Summary of the week:      This week's meeting was used as a way to regroup after the break. During the meeting, the group and sponsor (Ms. Beth) discussed how our respective winter breaks went. Then we went over our completed detailed design document. After that, we discussed our requirements matrix and how it could be updated and improved in terms of formatting. Goals for next week: Update the Requirements Matrix Related Links: Design Documents: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aipC3Divs8IGVJX71sXj1hP0ORDUAHb1oBdIyvQ16sM/edit?usp=sharing