Week 5: Prototypes and Quarters

9 – 15 February, 2015:

With a direction in mind at last, we spent a solid amount of time on Monday overhauling our previous project backlog and writing new user stories for the project as it is now.  For this week’s sprint, we focused on three user stories, regarding the constellations mini-game, the navigation menu and the Lending Hearts home star.  By the end of the sprint on Monday morning, we hope to have these items completed.

Our quarters walkaround occurred on Wednesday afternoon, and we received feedback and questions about our project.  There are still concerns about scope and scalability, as well as the large age range, which we will try to address over the course of the project.

By Friday, Hilman had put together a prototype for the constellation mini-game and Sam had put together a prototype for the navigation map of the galaxies, which we showed to our client.  Wei has completed art assets for the constellation mini-game and Hannah has created the backgrounds for the constellation mini-game and the galaxy navigation menu.

Drawing constellations mini-game prototype:

prototype_constellations

 

Galaxy navigation map prototype:

prototype_galaxymap

This Sunday, we will be joining Lending Hearts for their excursion to Phipps Conservatory.  Cheryl-Jean is also working on organising a tour for the Lending Hearts families to the ETC for 21st March.

Our next backlog items for the coming week include the planet customisation and login systems, once we have the mini-game, navigation menu and Lending Hearts home star.  We hope to test what we have every week and iterate on the design and components.