Open House Demo

[Hamilton Turner]

Hey guys, 

It looks like we are doing a demo for the incoming students! Could we get together before this to work on the project some? The event is on the 18th, so next Saturday, from 12:30 to 2.

Thanks, 

Hamy

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jules White <jules...@gmail.com>

Date: April 6, 2009 10:17:24 AM CDT

To: burgess....@vanderbilt.edu

Cc: Ken Hartsook <ken.a.h...@vanderbilt.edu>, Jared Segal <jared...@vanderbilt.edu>, Andrew Pitman <dre...@gmail.com>, Ben Gotow <ben....@vanderbilt.edu>, Hamilton Turner <hamilton...@vanderbilt.edu>

Subject: Re: FW: One more Open House demo

Dear Burgess Mitchell,

I have several students that will be giving demos of their final projects for the open house. One group has an XBox game to demo and the other group has a networked strategy game. Could we get one table for the two groups. 

Ken, does your group need a TV for the demo? I believe that the other group can show the demo on a laptop.

Thanks,

Jules White

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM, AB Bonds <a...@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

The tours start around 12:30 on Saturday the 18th.  A matter of when people get done eating.  Runs until about 2 pm.  You should show up in the atrium of FGH.  Please get in touch with Burgess Mitchell (burgess....@vanderbilt.edu) for anything you might need, like a table or two.  Let him know if you or any grad students will need feeding beforehand(usually pizza).

A. B. Bonds

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jules White [mailto:jules...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:48 PM
> To: Douglas C. Schmidt
> Cc: AB Bonds; ju...@dre.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Re: FW: One more Open House demo
>
> Great! What day/time should I ask the students to setup the
> demo? Will it be in FGH? I also have another team that has
> done a fantastic PC game. They could easily setup on a laptop
> next to the XBox team.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jules
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Douglas C. Schmidt
> <sch...@dre.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks AB!  Jules, can you please follow up to make sure
> your students
> > know where to set things up?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > AB Bonds <a...@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Done deal, thanks!
> >>
> >> ab
> >>
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------
> >> From: Mitchell, Burgess [mailto:burgess....@vanderbilt.edu]
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:08 PM
> >> To: AB Bonds; Fernandez, Michelle
> >> Cc: Dan M. Fleetwood
> >> Subject: RE: One more Open House demo
> >>
> >> Michelle,
> >>
> >> Please send update to Dina.  Let's make correction to the EE/Comp
> >> E/CS portion of teh program.  AB we will be sure to update
> the program.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Burgess
> >>
> >> Burgess Mitchell
> >>
> >> Assistant Dean for Student Services
> >>
> >> School of Engineering
> >>
> >> Vanderbilt University
> >>
> >> tel  615-343-8061
> >>
> >> fax  615-343-0670
> >>
> >> burgess....@vanderbilt.edu
> >>
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------
> >> From: AB Bonds [mailto:a...@vuse.vanderbilt.edu]
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:18 AM
> >> To: Mitchell, Burgess
> >> Cc: Fleetwood, Daniel M.
> >> Subject: One more Open House demo
> >>
> >> We have identified an attractive Open House demo from Dr.
> Jules White
> >> of Computer Science.  Its title would be "X-Box Gaming
> Applications".  I suggest that we set it up somewhere in the
> atrium so that interested guests can mingle and play.
> >> Please confirm.
> >>
> >> A. B. Bonds
> >>
> >
>

[Ben Gotow]

Hmm - yeah. I think we should try to get the single player stuff working so we can demo the whole game - I think we're almost there, we just need to get farms done. Kyle - I dunno what your status is on that? I've setup the mapLayer so it can highlight rectangles in a tile so we can make "drop zones" for farms... but maybe we can get together and work on it?

I guess on the multiplayer front, we need to get the multiplayer lobby working. I think Hamy has the networking stuff pretty much done, but there's no operation flow for actually hosting / joining and starting a game. Once we get that done, I think it's just a matter of sending everything in the GameStateSingleton to other players and keeping it in sync. (read: it's all in one place yay!!!!)

- Ben

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[Hamilton Turner]

Yea, if anyone has some time to make the UI for the join game complete, that would be cool. After wednesday, I will build a model to plug into the Host Game table, but we still need some basic UI stuff, like a kick player button, and a password box. 

Hamy

[Kyle Prete]

Im really not cool with this being during Rites, lol. Sure, sounds good Ben. Farms are coming along. I can determine whether or not a farm is claimed, but not how many forts it feeds... Plus there's some definite coupling there that I'm not happy about - Maybe we can put in the data somewhere which features are fed by farms?

-Kyle

[Ben Gotow]

Haha yeah the rites thing kinda sucks. Do we actually have to be there? Maybe we could create a video and then just play it on repeat demoing the app. lol. We should definitely put that farm-feature property in somewhere. I think that would make sense - just in case somebody wanted cloisters to be impacted by farms or something. I'll get on that!

- Ben