Presentation of Prototype (2 weeks prior to final installation)

Journey's End by mike porter

Well, I have just received the word that all our final updates are completed and incorporated into the patch and the Dropbox where all our work is shared will fall silent from here.

I hope you've enjoyed reading about the development of our quarter project as we have found it a "journey" ourselves developing it.

I'd like to thank my colleagues John and Bruno for all the hard work and for the support when things didn't go so well, to Rob MacKay and to Mark Hildred of CMT, University of Hull and Apollo Creative respectively, for all their support and feedback throughout the course of the project period and of course to the staff of Scarborough Museums trust for providing us with the opportunity to work on this project as well as all the support, knowledge and feedback they have given us.

Hopefully we shall all see how the final patch turns out at the Reception tomorrow and that the general public will enjoy it when it goes live on Thursday.

mike :)

Latest Video and Screens Update - John Maguire

So after viewing our installation i realised that the images needed to be re sized as Bruno pointed out in an earlier post. This is because the text scroll at the top was cutting the top off, but since resizing it looks much better although when not in the patch it does include a white bar at the top!

A spelling mistake was also pointed out by Joe Anderson in the congratulations video which was relatively easy to complete. I had to re download the image from http://www.certificateholders.com/images/FullSize/BlankCertificate4.jpg and erase the text and replace it with a custom font that was similar so that the phrasing was correct. This has been given to Bruno and will be in the final edition of our max patch!

So to finish up I just need to replace the audio in the informative video files and it will finally be done!

Realisation by Bruno Siu

After presenting our installation, we realised what are the required changes to the patch. All audio will be normalised to make them louder, the cartoon background on game screen will be resized and most importantly, all bugs will be ironed out.

Just to clear up the confusion, there are no randomisation of questions in the game. Though it was originally part of our design, I decided not to use it for safety reasons. This is due to its inconsistency and technical glitches which at times lead to crashing.

Bruno

Final Demo by mike porter

Well, today was the final demonstration of our project at the Rotunda Museum where we got to show off all of the work that you've seen in previous posts.

Overall I feel the presentation went well and I know all 3 of us are keen to hear the feedback of our work.

The only things needed to be tweaked now, which were pointed out are:

• Normalise all the audio to a reasonable level, as some of the new copies were too quiet to be heard.
• Fix a small graphical error on the "Congrtulations!" video
• Iron out the final bugs that seem to occur in game and between the transition between game and info.

Hope to see you all there over the next 2 weeks as our installation goes live on Thursday.

take care

mike :)

Audio Revamp by mike Porter

Hey there,

Just to keep you updated, a lot of the audio had a revamp after Buno helpfully pointed out that after hearing a small issue with some of the audio on his KRKs the audio has been reanalysed, and revamped to it is noiseless and some parts have been rerecorded for better quality. A couple of lines have also been changed based on the feedback we received.

With more final bits to be polished for Wednesday, I hope that both the staff from Scarborough Museums Trust as well as Mark and Rob will enjoy the new updates in our presentation tomorrow.

Also a big thank you to Bruno and John for putting up with me from Thursday when my Steinberg key went missing resulting in the majority of the weekend (up until tonight) not working, and a huge thank you to Amy Harrop for the lend of her MacBook today as a result of the missing key.

mike :)

Game screen problem by Bruno Siu

Taking on board Rob's comment, we have been looking for images suitable to conjure the sense of markets. But unfortunately we can manage to find one, so we try to use drawing as an alternative.

The cartoon styled backgrounds are created by John with the best of his abilities.

Lake background:

 Mountain background:

Tent background

Photo background:

Right now we have a dilemma of either using the photo background for all the questions or using the multiple cartoon styled background.

We are still trying to look for new background photos.

But I personally would prefer to use the multiple cartoon backgrounds if we can't find any new photos.

Bruno