Internship: Log/Activity on 28-03-2012

                     Today, I continued my task to design the website. There were a few parts that have been changed. The parts included Home, About Us, Services, Jobs, News and Gallery. We had changed the video in the home page, cut off and added on some of the contents in About Us, Services, News and Jobs as required by Christine. In the News page, we were requested to add on an event which will display the latest event with photos that we had in our company. It should be photo albums  showcase which visitors are allow to view all the photos. However, we not yet found any suitable extension. We have to continue the task  tomorrow.  

Internship: Log/Activity on 27-03-2012

      My task for today was continued designing the menu of the website. My coursemate and I were planned to do a drop down menu for the website. We had installed a few modules of drop down menu. Even though we had successfully installed the extensions, the drop down menu overlay with the content area and caused the menu couldnt be click. We had tried to change the code. However, we still failed to solve the problem. At last, we just used the Ninja Simple Icon Menu as the website menu.

The icons were displayed using Ninja Simple Icon Menu extension

Internship: Log/Activity on 26-03-2012

      Today, my coursemates and I continued redesigned the website. I had spent my time to arrange the videos in the gallery. I put all the videos in table and use an overlap to play the videos. I had faced some problems when arranging the videos. Some of the video's descriptions were too long. So, I had to make sure that all of them were fitted in the content area. I had found a show and hide content plugin to hide some of the description. It was a nice plugin but it was not functioning when there was a page break. I have not figure out what the problem is. I will try again tomorrow.

Hiding  part of the  description

Showing the hidden description

Internship: Log/Activity on 23-03-2012

                         Today, my coursemates and I had done the website design for the whole day. We had to change the website background image and parts of the pages which were not good enough such as the gallery part, I changed the galleryxml to the simpler form. Which meant I was not using the galleryxml anymore, just displayed all the videos in article and used hyperlink to link each page. The previous version and latest version  of website were shown in figures below.

Previous version

Latest version

  

Internship: Log/Activity on 22-03-2012

          I and my game team members were had a meeting this morning, discussed on how to  improve our game based on yesterday's comments and suggestions. After the meeting, my coursemates and I started to do the flow chart. Based on the flow chart that we had drawn, we had to come out with a storyline and design the game for each level. I had started to draw the main menu interface. After finished it, I will proceed with the interface for game level.

my story lines

Flow chart of the game

         

          Well, we received a bad news about the website design in the evening. Some parts of the designs have to be change. So, tomorrow task will  be change the website's design. :-(

Internship: Log/Activity on 21-03-2012

              Today, my coursemates and I had spent the whole morning to prepare the presentation slides. I prepared the slides for play rules, while my coursemates were prepared for the story and game background. Our game development team had our first presentation on the idea of game in the afternoon. The meeting were attended by our managing director- Madam Evelyn Lee, Christine, one of the animator in our company and other internship students. They had gave us a lot of comments and suggestions on our game. Their comments and suggestions really help us a lot  to improve our game. So far, our idea had been accepted. The next step to do is to come out with the flow chart for the ease of designing the levels and environments. Hopefully, everything will work smoothly. 

Example of game level

Internship: Log/Activity on 20-03-2012

                     Today, I had done not much on the website. Some of the contents still empty because need to wait other colleagues to design the contents. We just need to put them on the website after they finished them. 

                      I also had searched some information of developing mobile game. I had found a software called Game Editor but I still not familiar with its use. I think I should do more researches on game because this will be my first time developing a game. Our game development team had a meeting on game in the afternoon. We were discussed what should we put into the presentation slide bacause tomorrow we will need to present our idea to our boss, Mr  Low. 

http://game-editor.com

I had downloaded this software but haven't explore on it.