On Thursday, August 2, the FOSSBox set up an event called The Playtestathon to encourage people to try out prototypes and games that students had been working on at RIT. By hosting a Playtestathon we hoped to gain constructive feedback on our prototypes and game. We also hoped to make this event recurring so that students throughout the year could bring their work and have a great learning experience, all the while getting feedback from people who would play their game, making their games even m ...

Today we looked back on several documents. We made sure the sources were all working, all of the terms were cited, and that the documents written for anyone to read them. We also integrated the feedback that Red Hat had for us on our research, design, and game. We made sure the crafting sections were better setup since they were confusing, we added a lot on the topic of exploits, and we integrated several good ideas to improve our design. Finally, we dealt with several trip related points such ...

The trip this weekend was totally a blast. It was really cool to go and present in Boston at Red Hat headquarters. The presentation went very well there, in which the team came together in the last couple of minutes to telecast after having network difficulties. This and our preparation from the week before allowed us to nail the presentation to the Symposium back at RIT. We were also able to present to Red Hat directly and hear a little bit about what they do. This was pretty cool since I got t ...

Today we finished the presentation for the Symposium and prepared for the trip tomorrow. The first stage was revising the presentation based on SJ's review on the previous day. We also had to add several slides for David and his technology demo, which has also been completed. Finally, we practiced presenting again with this edited presentation. In addition to the Symposium presentation, we also had modify it for the larger presentation to Red Hat. I liked adding to this presentation since it co ...

Today we continued the process of flushing out our presentation. Since we completed analyzing the play testing data on Friday, this was the only thing left to focus on. Although this is the last accomplishment we will complete before the Symposium, there was still a lot of work to be accomplished. We went through the presentation and flushed out several more slides. Finally, we practiced presenting and editing the presentation to get it down to the required 10 minutes to give time to David for t ...

Today was finishing up a lot of odds and ends. We started off by completing the Symposium script and powerpoint. With this completed we will be in a pretty good position, since the Boston trip is next weekend. Next week all we will need to do is polish the presentation with practice and edits. We also finished preparations for the play test which will take place tonight. The play test has been polished, the papers have been printed out, and the materials have been gathered. Finally, we accompli ...

Today we did the final preparations for the play testing scheduled for tomorrow. This involved making sure we would have all of the materials ready and that all of the play test documents were created and ready. In addition to this, I went through the process of sending the documents of to be printed and confirming that we have enough of each type. To finish of the day we worked more on the Symposium presentation and script. Surprisingly, this presentation is just a week and a half away, which ...

Today has been mainly devoted to preparing for the play test. First, we finalized the playtest, which will be taking place on Thursday 6-8pm. In addition to this we completed the flier with the information for the event, posting them across campus and to this FOSS@RIT website in the events section. I also linked my informational blog post to the events page. Beyond preparing for the play test, we also went through several of our documents, organizing our information, moving old information into ...

The goal of this project has been to research and plan a game which promotes and rewards FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) development. However, this goal is no easy task since game design alone provides intense challenges to provide a fun and balanced experience. Adding on FOSS development stats makes game design much harder, adding imbalance and other issues. On top of all of this, we have been going in alone, researching this new topic that has not been looked into before. To accomplish s ...

Today we finished working on the materials and came up with how many materials would be awarded for committing code. We also helped David in his character sheet by coming up with stats and skills that would go on the sheet and what FOSS data would determine them on the character sheet. To accomplish this, we had to find information on the top programming languages and understand the FOSS data that could be used. Finally, we started the process of preparing for the play testing. We created sever ...