Final Week

As this semester starts to come to a close and the final week before our capstone presentations are underway every team begins a crunch time rush. Working the labs we see that most of the teams are present throughout the morning into the next. We as well are working on our pitch which all teams are critiquing with one another in an effort to help everyone out.

As we work on our final pitch we also need to make sure every piece of the game is in, even if its extremely basic. This is one of the criteria when moving forward we need to put in every feature that will be corresponding with our final product if we are to move forward. I believe that our game has a decent chance to move forward because it is something that has never been done to our knowledge and to our classes. This is also a large risk, what if that is a reason they are worried about letting us move forward. With this in mind it seems that it could go either way. We have had the same types of reviews in both faculty reviews as well as peer reviews during testing. The negative to our game it seems that it has a love hate relationship which doesn't allow for us any sort of middle or wiggle room with the sway. We need to perfect the pitch. However the day before the pitch we were told that it could be no longer than 12 minutes. Previous to this we have been told 15 minutes is were you need to be. This forced us to cut out a lot of material. This hurts the overall presentation for our group drastically. It also is a bit upsetting that we have been receiving updated information the day of or before something is to happen. Dates and times seem to change right before and some people have work because we are students and it tends to cause conflicts. If we were in the work force a last second meeting change to a half hour earlier where we were just showing up wouldn't affect us drastically. However working and being in school and all free time going to work the half hour earlier being told 3 hours before does hurt many individuals. Not only our group, but many feel there is a lack of communication this year and many things are not understood or told to right before it matters. This has a large impact on how we as a group feel and its not as positive as I would have liked.