Week 7

The printing of the 3d models has been completed and the board game pieces have been picked up. Overall, all of the pieces are in great condition. However, one piece, the fish was apparently misprinted, because it is quite deformed. It is pictured below.

We are going to attempt to fix it through conventional methods such as sanding and superglue. Pictured below are the rest all of the 3d printed models.

The design of the game board has been completed and is ready to be sent in to be printed. All components of the board game should be ready to demonstrate by class next week, for the in class demonstration. The app that is being created to go along with the board is almost ready to be used alongside the game. As a group, we are attempting to come up with more ways to incorporate engineering concepts into our project. We decided that the best method for doing this would be to change the way that the game is won. The method that we are going with now is to make the rules for winning be to circles around the board a certain number of times. Each animal will have a certain "speed value." In order to move around the board, you will multiply your roll by all of your animals speed values added together. That way, the more animals that you have, the more likely that you are to win. Furthermore, in order to pick up a pet, the player will have to answer a math or science related question about that animal. These concepts of math and science gear the game much more towards learning the basic concepts of engineering.