Today was no artwork, and a lot of preparation Washington DC. Running around, picking things up, and discussing printing… nothing too exciting to show. SJ has the very interesting idea that we should give Obama a few copies of our Hagaddah since he is the first president to celebrate Passover in the White House. Next week I plan to be super productive, including getting the printing process started for the stickers for the labs new bike, more badges and assets for lemonade stand. I’ll also be p ...

I've been working away at being able to make a custom recipe creation screen. It was a lot of work but I'm almost finished with the interface for it. There are just a few more tweaks needed to clean up the interface, like somethings aren't showing up and I'm not sure why. Then all I need to do is finish hooking together all of the back end stuff that I built yesterday as well as create a few checks so the player can't break the game and having the player be able to create their own custom recipe ...

Good stuff is happening! Thanks to the wonderful David Wilson, Sky Time is now translated into 4 different languages: English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. I made a new language screen for Sky Time, and I am revising some screens for Lemonade Stand. I had the very important duty of picking up our huge Buffalo Wild Wings order with Suzanne, which may have included a stop to 7-11 for a free icee. :D Travel plans were made for me to go to DC. Visiting the White House will be a pretty intense ...

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 ...