Once the project was assigned the team discussed which games everyone wanted to make. After a little while the team members decided on Connect 4 and Over 7/ Under 7.
Connect 4
Before the game development was started, a classmate was interviewed by the team members. From this the team gathered information about what they like in a game. To begin making the connect 4 game, a flowchart was created. This served as the road map for creating the game code in MATLAB. To begin the coding the developers looked at references of the game board and used that to create the base of the game. From there the developer for this game added coding so two people could play the game.
After the first draft of the game was complete, it was tested and some errors were found. The game didn’t check for some of the diagonal wins or if there was a tie. Once the problems were found, they were fixed by the developers immediately. After that draft was done, the game was tested again. No more errors were found by the developers in the game in this test. From there the developers worked on compressing the game so it ran faster.
Once the final version of the game was complete, a second interview was conducted. A classmate was able to play this game and give the team feedback about it. The interviewee enjoyed the game and it was easy to play.
Over 7 / Under 7
The team used the information from the first game to help the developers of this game make this game. This game was decided as a second one because it is easy to play and doesn’t take long. To start, a draft code was created in MATLAB. After that some testings were made and an error was found by the developers. The coding made to end the game didn’t work. This error was fixed immediately by adding a break statement in the while loop. After the error being fixed, the final draft was created, and then the code worked perfectly.
After both of the games were complete, a video was made by the team members. First, the team members discussed what the video was going to have in it. Then some members in the team wrote a rough script in power point format. The video was comprised of a pitch for the games, a demonstration of both, and a description of the project. After a little practice, the video was filmed. Then, the video was edited and uploaded to this site.