This week we started completeing tasks within second life for out final project. Alex bought a buidling earlier in the week, we have it in the location, but now it needs to be edited and a second story needs to be added to it for our laser tag game. That should have been completed by now, so technically we are a litle behind schedule as of now. Also this week, i went around looking for office furniture like desks and cubicles to place in the bulding. I found some good stuff for cheap, i just havent bought it yet. I think i will probably do that tomorrow or on tuesday. WE still have alot of work to get doen and we are appraching our deadline soon. Its crunch time, and eveyone in the goup needs to do his part.
Also this week, we tested out the laser tag equipment and i was surprised to find out that it was a little more complex than i first thought it would be. After some testing and trials alex finally got it to operate the way it should. We realized that we might need to get peopel to register a day or two early before the laser tag game, but that might be difficult, so we’ll see what happens with that. I’m hoping that on tuesday, the group shows up to class, so we can use class time to work on our project and maybe even the machinema, otherwise we care goona continue to keep falling off schedule. After thanksgiving we do not have much time to owkr on the project and we all have work to do for our other classes. I’m hoping we can pull this event off as we planned from the beggining.
Before this course started i wasnt even sure what a virtual world was, but now as the semester is comign to an end im seeing the importance they hold and the important interactions that take place within virtual worlds. Im excited to see the avatar interaction that will take place at our event. Im excited to see the types of people who show up and the kinds of interactiosn that take place.
November 19, 2007 at 2:15 am
You guys have made some good progress and it sounds as if you’ve discovered some potential snags (like the laser tag equipment not working properly) in time to deal with them. You’re right, though, that the semester is quickly drawing to a close and that you guys will need to keep on schedule if you want to be able to hold your event. Hopefully you will be able to meet early in the week to get some work done/catch up to your proposed timetable.
Good luck on getting things done next week! Thank you for your blog post.
November 19, 2007 at 3:17 am
Great Post Imran. I think you have identified some key challenges for your event. The laser tag system did take a while to work once Alex rezzed it. The crowd will not be forgiving at all if your team can’t get it work somotthly during the event. You maywant to assign two groups members the task of setting up the system for every body as they come in ont he day of the event. Also, do you need to buy office furniture? Can’t you build obstacles or use freebies? Seems like simple boxes with sections hollowed out might mkae for good cover.