Week 4: Decisions, Decisions

2 – 8 February, 2015:

This week was about locking down what we are making this semester.  It started out with the team name change and a quick turnaround for Wei to produce our final branding material and team photo.

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By Wednesday, we had finalised the bare bones of our concept: a Lending Hearts galaxy with individual planets circling around the home “Lending Hearts star”.  Hilman, Ruchi and Hannah also attended the Playtest to Refine workshop to gather more feedback on our narrowed down idea with a new composition box.  We shared the concept with our client during our meeting on Friday.

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In tech, Sam and Hilman began prototyping  ideas for mini-games to see what can reasonably be done this semester.  Now that our concept has been narrowed down, artists Wei and Hannah will be starting to create concepts and assets, while Ruchi will be focusing on UI.

Sprint planning this Monday will be especially important since we will probably overhaul our backlog and create many new user stories based on our decisions this week.  We will also be preparing for Quarters.  Next Wednesday, we will have our Quarters walkaround, where we will share our goals, process, and progress with faculty and receive feedback.  This will transition us into the Production phase of our development schedule and we are eager to get to work.