Class Deadline for Unit 20

You need to submit your completed Unit 20 folder by:

Monday 21st October 2013

This will need to be in sorted order, including dividers (the dividers state the order for each section)

You folder should contain:

• Client Briefs
• Legislation
• Jayne Solution
• Hari Solution
• Toma Solution
• PC setup for Jayne
• Evaluation

I will then give this a final mark and give you any referral work. You will not get your folder back but can submit the corrections to me.

tips:

It is important that you maximise your efforts on U20 as this is the least complex to organise of all the units you are working on this year.

Make sure you look through the portfolio guide and check the dividers to ensure that all elements have been at least covered. We do not want to leave holes.

Ensure your bibliography is complete and includes several non-web related references.

U17 Final deadline

The final hand in deadline for U17 is Friday 3rd May 2013

We will be hard at work on the Networking exam unit (unit 16) at this time.

It is important that over Easter you try to complete all your paperwork, so I can give you some directed and assessed feedback.

During Gavin's lessons (after your final hand ins for U9 and U14) you will need to be working on the exam preparation. I will have a series of tasks for you to work through during these sessions.

Merry Christmas: and get this lot done for when we come back

Over Christmas you need to complete the following work so we are ready to code properly in January.

• Make sure you fully understand all that you want to do on at least your Title screen. In detail as I can't guide you if you don't know what you want to achieve.

• Make sure you have all your background graphics organised (either as separate images PNG format or on a sprite sheet)

• Make sure you have all your sprites organised on a sprite sheet with a transparent background (save as a PNG file)

If we don't have these complete then you will put back your development on your front end and leave yourself short on coding time.

Unit 20 Final submission

You will shortly be getting your feedback on Unit 20, this feedback will cover a current working mark for your project out of 50. use the common issues guide on the Unit 20 section of the Intranet to relate this to your nilpit feedback.

You need to take on board the comments that have been made and make changes to your portfolio in order to improve your work. Make sure you track the changes you make by making comments on the nilpit entry. This will allow me to easily check what work you've attempted to improve, which will make my final assembly job easier and allow me time to give you some last minute feedback.

Your final submission date will be Monday 17th December 2012.

It is important that you maximise your efforts on U20 as this is the least complex to organise of all the units you are working on this year.

Make sure you look through the portfolio guide and check the dividers to ensure that all elements have been at least covered. We do not want to leave holes.

Ensure your bibliography is complete and includes several non-web related references.

I will give this work a final mark and if I feel there are things you can improve I will give you pointers as to what you can do (I will place these on the Nilpit system). You will not get the folders back but you will be able to work on this over Christmas and hand in direct replacements on the first day back Monday 7th January 2013 - I must receive the work before 11am - I will not accept it after this time

You will only be allowed to replace or produce the items I have listed on your Nilpit (this is not time for you to carry on working on the unit - you have had plenty of time to do the corrections you were given at the start of December), I will not have time to rebuild your folders so don't attempt this as I will refuse to accept the work. Do not attempt to hand anything after this date as I need to complete all exam board paperwork that night and send off the next morning.

U17 Specification Hand in

On Friday 30th November 2012 you need to hand in the specification section of the the game programming portfolio.

Make sure that you have produced your best documents within each section.

Place the work in the correct order based on the divider (if you have lost your dividers then re-print a set from the Intranet - make sure you turn back to back printing off first)

I will mark this section and give you feedback in the following way:

• specific marks where appropriate on the work
• an detailed personal entry on your Nilpit for unit 17 with a current assessed score
• a global issues document which I will place on the unit 17 section of the Intranet

Use these pieces of feedback to ensure you make the best available improvements to your work to ensure you get the best possible score for this section.

Twins are coming

The replacement arcade machines are nearly done.

They will be ready for open evening (fingers crossed)

Half term homework: Game theme and asset production

You need to decide on the theme for your game. Remember we are talking old school game genres, racer, platformer, shooter etc...

Once you have identified a genre take a look at examples of control schemes for retro games to give you an idea how this may work for you.

You need to also look at the presentation shown in new games, particularly the menu structures and title screens used. Elements of these you should be able to incorporate in your own front end such as graphical styles and use of audio.

Once you have decided on this then you need to start organsing your assets.

Collect/create the following

audio (mp3 or wav formats)
Background graphics (organise into single images png for transparency)
Sprites (organise into a large sprite tile sheet 2048x2048 as png)
Title graphics (anything you want to move or flash such as Press Start, insert credit, logos etc...)

We need this stuff ready for when we come back after half term.