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OMG! It’s been a while!

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So… we’ve been working hard to get the demo finished and we’re about to release it, yay!

Here’s what’s been going on:

Writing update (Matías):

  • Added Pete & Paul to the GDD, rewrote a few minor bits.
  • Gave final touches to dialogs for the demo.

Art update (Juan):

  • Changed font for dialogs
  • Enhanced main character animations
  • Finished assets for scene 1 and 2
  • Changed some icons on HUD

Sound & Music update (Milhouse):

  • Built all the sounds for scenes 1 and 2

Programming update (Francisco & Pablo):

  • Fixed sound in chrome, with a pull request to MOAI.
  • Made sound work cross-platform.
  • Made the user start standing instead of walking on scene 01.
  • Made dialogs clearer adding color for each character.
  • Fixed dialog flow on Nancy tree.
  • Fixed conditions when opening door (coffee and bathroom puzzles need to be completed).
  • Finished bathroom puzzle.
  • Playtested with vegetaldeana and gathered some info.
  • Added animations with non constant frame durations.
  • Added interaction for objects that playtesting said had to be clickable.
  • Implemented main character animations.
  • Changed HUD dependency from room to game.
  • Fixed bug with mouse position initialization.
  • Matched all assets to target resolution.
  • Made characters to be loaded only when needed.
  • Added better feedback to coffee maker puzzle.
  • Enhanced Nancy standing animation.
  • Added missing sounds on scene 1 and 2.
  • Added simple main and thank you screen.
  • Wrote a ruby script to make releases, identifies unused assets and removes them, resizes the images to target resolution and optimizes all pngs.

Production update (Francisco & Milhouse):

  • We’ve been doing changes in our scope, basically we will release the game in 3 chapters. The idea will be to release the first chapter in early november, the second in mid november and the third around the end of november / december, both chapters will be updates of the same application.
  • We decided to launch a demo this month, and that’s what we’ll do soon!

Social media update (Michael):

  • Sent LinkedIn email to New England ADA
  • Attended networking event and handed out one business card
  • Set up meeting with Michael, the CEO of Ayogo for Tuesday at 4:30pm EST.
  • Communicated with FanNewsCast
  • Meeting with Fadi about the game
  • Meeting with Ayogo with Francisco
  • Sent email to DiabetoDevice to arrange another interview
  • FB Post: Interview with DiabetoDevice (this is our most viral/highest reach post to date)
  • Interview Alex Silverstein/International Diabetes Foundation
  • Chat with Cherise/Diabetes Social Media Advocacy
  • Chat with Ryan/Lean Startup Machine
  • Chat with Michael/Ayogo
  • Spoke with Ryan of Lean Startup Machine
  • Increased FB ad budget

Say Hi to Daily standups!

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Hi! We decided to start posting our Daily meetings to the blog so you can be aware of the progress of the game!!
Hope you enjoy this initiative

Writing update (Matías):

Yesterday:

  • Rough Draft for Pete and Paul’s Dialogue
  • Re-wrote some of the characters’ personalities a bit.

Today:

  • Adding my Drafts to the GDD and rounding off scene 03.

Art update (Juan):

Yesterday:

  • Updated several assets that needed tweaking.
  • Created some of the missing ones for scene 1 and scene 2.
  • Designed the hud and the dialogue windows/animations.

Today:

  • I will be working on the walking cycles for josh and if I have the time start working on the scene 3 background.

Sound & Music update (Milhouse):

Yesterday:

  • Worked on the sounds I have sent to you

Today:

  • Will be working at night on the remaining sounds.

Programming update (Francisco & Pablo):

Yesterday:

  • Finished smoothing transitions between scenes 01 and 02.
  • Finished object highlight when tapping the duck.
  • Implemented interactions with fridge but got blocked because of insulin tubes assets missing.
  • Started to implement dialogs hud.
  • Working on animations abstract class.

Today:

  • Will finish the dialog hud.

Production update (Francisco & Milhouse):

Yesterday:

  • Sorted taskboard.
  • Finished planning until sept 5th and checked with the whole team.

Media update (Michael):

Yesterday:

  • Connected Milhouse to Glenn, he might help us recording the lyrics for the theme song.
  • Communicated with FanNewsCast to help with Facebook.
  • Scheduled conversation with Colin Northway of northwaygames.com to discuss marketing indie games.
  • Scheduled conversation with Ryan MacCarrigan of leanstartupmachine.com to discuss raising money for The Insulines.
  • Worked of Facebook and Twitter.

Today:

  • Contact ADA in Boston
  • Attend networking event and hand out some business cards.
  • Work with Facebook and Twitter

Nice way to end this week!

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Today we’ve gathered at quov.is headquarters and developed the story, scenarios and character backgrounds a little bit more.

We’ll try to get a vertical slice of the game soon as a demo, at least with placeholder art, basically to test mechanics and iterate on every single piece of functionality we want to implement. We also want to play with the multiplatform options that Moai provides.

Here is a floor plan for the apartment where the magic starts.

We hope you like it!!!

Cheers!

CyberChimps