Project Summaries are what we have acheived over the last month. I will write them monthly to complie all the intresting things which have happened during that month. This will be done for both teams

This month we have mostly been getting aquianted with the new team.

All of the members are in 6th form. Here are their roles within the team. (Some still need confirmation)

Chirag Harendra – Team Leader, artist and handiman

Jay-Christopher Durrante – Programmer

Stephen Reynolds – main graphics artist and concept development

William Nkhono – Programmer

In this page, I will keep you up-to-date with what is going on within our Imagine Cup team and their progress.

Our XNA team is different to our Imagine Cup team; however since the Imagine Cup is still “budding”, I have given them access to any engines which I have coded in order to make it easier for them to make the game.

After we were aqquainted, both teams sat down and helped them think of an Idea for the game based on the United Nation targets (or something like that.) Jay suggested water. It looked easy at the time however it was a lot harder than it seemed

Thinking of a game to do with water but still keeping the concept entertaining was an annoying tedious job that took 3 gatherings to sort out. The name came out fast and clean, even before we decided whats going to be in the game.

Breathtaking. I shall call it Heli-Aid

Sorry for the doctor evil reference but I felt like I had to say it. Anyway, here is a list of the ideas we had

Heli-Aid idea 1 – Your living in a world where technology is endless. You can create anything with anything. You make some hybrid helicopter which has different tools in order to deliver water.

Reason for Trashing: It sounded like the story was tripping over itself. We thought that if technology was “endless”, the people without food should have access to it anyway.

Merciless Janitor – This game idea was scrapped nearly instantly it was thought up, but it was funny nonetheless. This was a game to tackle illness rather than water as a theme. This next sentance is what made everyone reject the idea. You play as Janitor wo cleans toilets from nasty bacteria.

Reason for Trashing: see above

Random Virus Game – also tackling the theme of illness, Random Virus Game was by far the easiest to implement game of the lot. You begin by choosing a strain of virus. Every strain comes with its own stats. You can then make them more vicious and deadly. The objective to kill the world mwhahahahahahahahaha *cough* *cough* anyway…

Reason for Trashing: umm… I don’t remember exactly, but I think it was because it sounded like a boring game

Heli-Aid idea 2 – This is the latest idea for Heli-Aid. You play as a 3d helicopter in a 3d environment doing missions like turning off the tap. You also have a battery bar which drains. If it runs out whilst in the middle of a mission: GAME OVER. Co-op play would be mroe fun with this idea. This idea uses 3D so I am a little bit uneasy about it. I have no knowledge nor any experience with 3d game design or programming.

Reason for scrapping: We beleived that it would be to difficult to implement in such as small amount of time

Project “A” – This is the newest latest idea for our imagine cup project. I cannot give away details about the game yet as its being kept underwraps; but on the plus side i can confirm it sounds pretty addictive!!!!

The last meating before half term ¬¬ was disappointing. Only one person turned up and that was William. I gave him a little prize (Lending him my Rob miles XNA Book (which is awesome)) He left half way through becuase no one bothered to come. They were supposed to have a photo shoot as well. For the last half hour, we worked on Assimosis

Both of our teams currently have separate projects which they are working on

Heli-Aid – Made by our Imagine Cup team by using the theme of water. You play as a 3d remote control helicopter that flys

Assimosis – Made by Crimson Knights. This game needs to be designed as we are still mostly unsure of what you can do. I have mostly changed my attention to Heli-Aid and helping the Imagine Cup team out; however this project is still on the list of completion.