#5 FYP Meeting

4 May 2012
Duration: 2h 40min
Members Present: Diana, Marzie, Wan Yee (Left halfway)
Supervisor Present: Lawrence Kwa

Objective of Meeting:
Decide the top 3 ideas for the 2nd Pitch Presentation and further developed it. Preparations for 2nd Pitch.

Content of Meeting:
Decided on Hercules: Escape from Hydra Island as one of the top3 games. However, we had some trouble deciding the other two. There were different preferences between members, therefore we tried to work on 4 chosen one and narrow it down to 2 to be in the top 3 games, which are,

Air Traffic Rush, Grab the Carrots, Snake Connect and Plane Match Up.

There was difficulty deciding which to choose as we considered how common the gameplay is of each game and we did a little further brainstorming to see what can make the games unique to other similar games besides the theme and graphics. However, it was pretty narrow for us.

(Lawrence joined in the meeting)

Lawrence point out a few things such as doing a little more research on SIA to broaden our minds to get ideas for new game concepts.

He also mentioned about making the "Snake Connect"  game in to an aircraft theme which Marzie then thought of an idea which was to control the plane to the destination by going through a series of events, such as turbulence and such which might affect the passengers. The player would have to try to balance the plane without it shaking so much, which will affect the happiness and satisfaction of the passengers in the plane, with some other power ups and boosts.

Another idea would be the Language Coordinator without the arrow keys but to allow the player to learn about some phrases of different languages through mix and match. Further sketches of both games will be illustrated and presented in the next meeting.


Meeting's Conclusion:
There was not much done today as the attendance of the team was weak. However, ideas formed will be presented and further developed in the upcoming meetings. Also, we will be preparing more on the interface and dynamics of the game for the upcoming 2nd pitch.

Reported by,
Marzie