CIS 300: Introduction to Computer Game Design

Two Week Report:
Technical Prototype

Due: Saturday, March 15th at 11:59pm

Your third two week report covers what you did for your technical prototype. The report should be two things: a summary of the work that you did in order to get your technical prototype working, and a prediction of the amount of work you will need to do to reach alpha complete.

First, you need to make a summary of what work went into the technical prototype. You should be very detailed. You should submit a report that documents the activities of your team members. For each team member, you should include the following:

  • Exactly what activities the team member was involved in during the development of the prototype.
  • How many hours over the past two weeks that team member spent on each of those activities
  • An assessment of whether these activities were a valuable use of that team member's time. If they were not, what could that team member have been doing instead?

In addition, you should make comparisons to your projects from your previous two week report. What took more time than you expected? What took less time than you expected? Have you learned any lessons that will alter how you assign responsibilities in the future?

Once you have finished the report for the technical prototype, you should layout your plans for the next stage, your alpha release. The alpha release should have all of your controls finalized and it needs to be playable. Your "level" can be very small, but it must clearly look like a game. For each team member, you should again describe their responsibilities (in detail) as well as how much time the should be spent on each responsibility. Remember, this should add up to 10 hours a week. Obviously, you do not need to assess whether the responsibilities you assign are correct yet -- you will not know this until the next two week report. However, you should consider the lessons you learned from the technical prototype in assigning responsibilities for the alpha release.

Submit the file report by Saturday, March 15th at 11:59pm through CMS. It may either be a text file (txt), a Microsoft Word file (doc), or a PDF file (pdf).