The RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC) is pleased to announce that a student-led project entitled “Sky Time” has been selected for inclusion in the White House Champions of Change event on July 23rd in Washington, D.C. SkyTime is an educational game for the Sugar Desktop Environment running on the XO laptop of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The event celebrates the best projects to emerge from the nationwi ...

After adding in a way to choose recipes I decided to work on what the ticket was actually asking for and add a way for the user to create their own recipes. This is has been a little tricky to do. I spent a long time looking at how the store is drawn so I could use something similar in the way that user would create the recipe. This will require some work and should be finished with a few days so that I could close the ticket by Friday at the latest. After that I've been asked to fix the random ...

After not paying attention and eating food that went bad last night I wasn't feeling all that well today. I tried to remain as productive as possible even with the nausea. I was looking for the elusive problem that was cause the game to only sell basic lemonade even though I switched the recipe. It took me a while to notice that the way the properties referenced the class variables were not updating properly so that even thought the one property was changing the value the other property wasn't p ...

I today trying to close one of the tickets for Lemonade Stand. The ticket asked for a version of lemonade stand with strawberries and ice. Strawberries were already somewhat in the game but commented out, but I had to create ice from scratch, getting all new images from FOSS@RIT's resident artist. After that I customized the recipes and added some new events to help fully integrate the new ingredient into the game. However while testing it out I noticed that even though I changed the recipe the ...

For the past week I have been hacking on Lemonade Stand changing all of our hard coded text into dynamic text for loading in different dynamic sets of stands. While doing this, I have changed all the text to gettext to be able to translate the game into Spanish as well as other languages. Currently, we have a Spanish version of Lemonade Stand wo ...

AWESOME NEWS!!! Sky Time was accepted to be represented in the White House Champions of Change Event! http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions “White House Champions of Change events feature groups of Americans – individuals, businesses, and organizations – who are doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities.” I spent a very long time on the application, and I hoped a lot, but I did not expect it to actually happen. Even af ...

This week has been pretty crazy between lmaken being here for some hacking, a shorten week due to the 4th of July, and lots of traveling. I have made some paper mock-ups for Gourciferous and will begin creating some prototypes in Glade (fingers crossed nothing crashes). I may try to attach photos of the mock-ups soon, but I don't currently have a way to do that. The only real struggle with the GUI mock-ups is where to sort ...

Work from Real-Home Friday!!!!! Though Fridays are work from home fridays, I went back to my home of origin in nyc for the weekend and worked from there. I spent most of today figuring out how áccént márks and special ñ characters could be typed into the the spanish versio n of [lemonade stand.](https://github.co ...

I was at my friend’s birthday party this past weekend. I was watching the fire pit to the sounds of bouncing Ping-Pong balls and sloshing beverages when, wouldn't yah know it, I got sucked into a conversation about Free and Open Source Software. At this point I am decently comfortable with FOSS things. I know how stuff gets done, I understand the mentality and culture behind it, I have been working at FOSS@RIT a while now. I don’t necessarily participate in it all, but I like its academia, its ...

It is now the end of the sixth week of this summer research program. This was an interesting week since the Fourth of July was this Thursday. However, even if we didn’t work every day this week, the longer hours with the guest mentor made the week even more productive. I had a busy week working on different features in the game. I was planning on working on the badges this week but I didn’t discuss with the group as a whole to see were everyone was and what were the idea for badges we were all g ...