Research Log of Web Science Students

We were able to add the following functionality to our first game: user profile and assessment. The user’s results will be stored and shown after every game. The assessment is composed of the following details: Read the rest of this entry »

For the nth time, we’ve changed the look of our first game. We’ve decided to do so because the last interface was a bit too serious for a math game for kids.
And so… Presenting mmvjr game 1′s new ‘do:
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Joan and I decided to change the look of our first game (again). After a consultation with our resident artist Angge, we settled with rounded-edge squares and rectangles (drawn in Paint) and the yellow-green color scheme. Below’s the result of our er, artistic efforts. And I have to say, it’s so much better than the first and the second designs. Looks much cleaner and less cluttered, too. Read the rest of this entry »

We presented our almost complete first game yesterday. Much to our consternation there were still a million things that we had overlook and one of them was the main point of our thesis: reusability.
And having overlooked that we might just have to rewrite the first game. Ugh.

Here’s the list of things that we have to change/add to our game. *Noted after the Monday demo (to WSG lab members) and the Thursday demo (to Doc Caro)*

We’d also be a adding a welcome screen and instructions page. Read the rest of this entry »