Week 6

Today the members of the group discussed what has been accomplished so far on the project, and what still needs to be finished. David stated that the pet pieces were finished and would be printed soon on the 3D printer. The final layout for the game board was finished on AutoCad and was sent it to Raphael. He will be using his skills with Photoshop to enhance the game board and make it more appealing to kids. Kristopher had already written up some of the ideas for Chance cards but needed more and asked David and Morgan if they could help. The plan was to make twenty Chance cards with different expressions, those twenty cards would then each be doubled, which would create forty cards. We plan on having fifty Chance cards altogether, so the other ten would be unique with special situations for the players. By the end of class today, virtually all of the Chance cards had been written except for a few. The instructor confronted us and told us that we could still continue with our toy design, but we needed to incorporate an engineering aspect to it. As a group, we brainstormed what we could do that would satisfy the requirements for the project. It was agreed that we would create an application for cellular devices. This app would be used to randomly generate one of the Chance cards each time a player tapped a button. The rules will be changed so that whenever a player lands on a chance space, that player will tap the button on the application and a random Chance card will be generated. The player will then read whatever the card says, and complete the action. Kristopher is a computer science major who readily agreed to create the app, and the rest of the group volunteered to help him out in any way that we could.