RICM4 2017 2018 -SeriousGame Polystar

Project presentation

This project (2017-18 version of [1]) consists of :

• The implementation of the game described here [2]
• The deployment of the application on tactile tables.

Equipment

• 2 Tactile tables Tactualities

Team

Members : Tim LEPAGE, Dimitri SERGEANT - RICM4 @ Polytech Grenoble (UGA)

Supervisor : Didier Donsez Anne Laure Finkel Stéphanie Diligent

Deliverables

• GitLab
• SRS
• UML

Progress

Week 1 (15-21 jan)

Subjects were assigned.

Researches on the technologies that could be used.

Week 2 (22-28 jan)

Installed Meteor and followed tutorials to learn how to use the technology.

Started to open the tactile tables to see how it works.

Week 3 (29 jan - 4 feb)

We made the tables work.

Meeting with A-L Finckel :

• Explications about the game
• Definition of the essentials of the game

Meeting with D. Donsez :

• Explained current advancement.

Started application development

Week 4 (5-11 feb)

Brainstorming :

• How do we both see the game (interface, different game sequences)
• Distribution of the tasks

Started to fill the SRS.

Week 5 (12-18 feb)

Application development :

• Organisation of the different webpages of the application (home, gamepage, authentification page, modification page)
• Started to gather informations about collection : (used to save the Units and the Cards of the game)

Kept filling SRS and started filling UML.

Week 6 (19-24 feb) Hollidays

Filled SRS and UML.

Application development :

• Started the authentification system based on meteor accounts

Week 7 (26 feb - 04 mar)

Application development :

• Started CSS implementation + Screen rotation
• Timer implementation
• Number of teams and units selected linked dynamically with the game

Meeting with D. Donsez :

• Explained current advancement.
• Questions about technical difficulties (CSS with meteor, sendMail)

Week 8 (05-11 mar)

Application development :

• Creation of the cards and units collection
• Options implemented : add / modify / delete cards from the collection (linked with the units)
• CSS
• Started the game loop

Week 9 (12-18 mar)

Half way project presentation

• Creation of the ppw + meeting with teachers

RICM 16 years anniversary

• Poster creation

Application development :

• Implemented a basic system of points and win conditions

Week 10 (19-25 mar)

Application development :

• The game is now fully operational. We are adding animations and graphic corrections.
• Bug correction.

Week 11 (26 mar - 01 apr)

• Tested the game on the tables
• Try to find a way to deploy the application so it can work on many tables and not only in localhost