Feb 26th 2014 Live

Finally, today is our Live for Livetags!

We had our meeting start from 10 until 12:30 

We make sure everything that run smoothly.

When guest has arrived, we presented our concept and demo how the game play.

We place our hologram beside it however the volumn seems to be too low.

The game run smoothly, but sensor on the glove not really strong. 

We might want to change during our sem break, to make sure it will be more secure and strong sensing.

The feedback from guest was really motivate us. 

Our Livetags is looks like a product which is good.

However, the relation with the hologram and the booth was not really looks like they are related.

We had our little guest after all.

In the holiday, we might want to discuss and improve on the overall project.

Feb 24th - 25th 2014

Before the live, we had meeting on Monday and Tuesday. The task for us is we must complete 100% of everything. For coding, I had change the content from Monalisa to The One Academy. I am able to solve the music looping sound by using Boolean true or false which Yi Wei and my classmates Yaw teaches me. I am able to reset the game so that the game keep continue playing. In this few days, I helping logistic leader to polish the booth. As I had completed my code earlier and able to help Estee to do the hologram. Before that, we also record our video again so that to display on hologram. Charissa was busying to design our poster and Abu was busying editing our hologram video.

Feb 19th 2014 Beta Test

Today is the beta test.

In the morning we prepared everything and get ready.

I had test out the code and to make sure everything run smoothly in the desktop

however, the current problem was, I am not sure how to solve the problem of looping sound and couldn't reset the game.

The mark which player should stand and take picture after they done their game.

A temporary mark for the glove with Player one and two.

The feedback from all the guest was, they having fun of our game play however they couldn't estimate when is the words coming out. The animation on the top seems more attracting than the bottom. For the booth, it need to be more polish and complete. 

Therefore, with all the feedbacks from the lecturer and guest. We decided to put a white background in the back of the text and to animate before next words will display. We will refined some of the sound effects. Then, we will polish up the booth to make it more nicer and complete as like a product. For menu, Charissa will put the buttons looks like a button and will change the background image into more attracting and more understanding hashtag elements.

Feb 17th - 18th 2014

Today, 3 of my teammates was went to recording studio to record the sound effects. To avoid wasting of time, my group leader Abu allowed me to do my work at home.

I had mixed all the code together such as the code Yi Wei has teaches us and provided us for randomize text to display with 2 seconds.  

And the useful of Keycodes by Jam. Then I had input all the graphic that Charissa has designed .

Therefore the overall interface has done.

The next day, we accessed to IIS for testing the codes with Arduino board.

Charissa and estee has succesful to link two glove together and able to detect the touch sensor to play the game. Leon our classmate has tried our game play however, the feedback from him is he hardly determine when is the words coming out. For sound, I has input all the background sound and sound effect by using the code with previous knowledge. However, the new problem has occur when user holding the key when in the Menu, the sounds keep looping. Therefore, before beta test we tried to remove it and keep this problem and ask Yi Wei for coming lesson.

Feb 12th 2014

I have tried to use external script in Adobe Flash which to link each of the class together. However, the problem that Keycode couldn't detect while linking classes to classes. I have consult with Jam with my codes but the problem still unsolved. Therefore, due to time limitation and couldn't have much time to consult Yi Wei. I decided to code everything internal, in the future might consider to code it external.

By end of the day, the feedback from Lecturer was to add in more sound effects and still consider the fill size. Try to connect to the Arduino Board before the beta test. For now, I will try my best to link everything together, such as the health bar, the text to display , the camera and the print screen. 

Feb 5th 2014 Alpha test

A new problem among us. That was we bought the WRONG Arduino board. We not supposed to use the Arduino Gemma due to it's only for display with LED lights, however we trying to seek out another solution as, Charissa asked her mother to get the Arduino Flora at Singapore and we can get it free because Charissa has done some freelance to her mother.The Adafruit Flora is about RM83 and it takes a short time to ship. Therefore, to earn back the money that we bought for Arduino Gemma, we tried to sell it to Lowyat and TOA or online social network.

During the alpha test, we had printed out our LiveTags banner, then we had stick it at the kiosk. Then we showed our prototype for Lecturer. The feed back for my coding was to refine and to reduce the file size. However, I will try to complete the code before the beta test.

Feb 4th 2014

Today we had a meeting in one of the classmate house at PJS 9. The aim of our day is try to complete the code as much as possible so that can be show on the alpha day. I have test out the Array in the whole day while Charissa was trying to connect the Gemma to the Arduino Software, Abu was researching about the print screen code and fixing the code. Estee was painting out photo op outside.

The meeting took us around 8 hours, however, Charissa has figure out how to connect the Arduino Gemma to the Arduino software,Estee finished paint the photo op and waiting it to dry up, Abu was successful to fix the print screen code while I still can't get the Array code therefore, I asked Yi Wei again for helping us to check the code. 

However, I had tried my best to code as many as I can. If I still can't handle it I will consult Yi Wei in during his lecture.

Feb 11th 2014

A day met up with my teammates at IIS to refine our kiosk and the Arduino board. While I continue to do my code. The overall progress is for the code is about 50%. The picture below show our progress of the day.However, Jam was sent a multi key code for me to explore. I manage to use the code that he has given and put it into my game play. The use of multi key code in Flash is for detecting user to hold in the starting page so that they can check in and play the game. 

The code that Jam was given.

The progress of the day. 

The new problem has occur during our testing was the PS eye camera can't support of mirror effect to to flip the screen into mirror so that Charissa and I was researching on the code for flash to flip the camera. 

Link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574627/how-to-flip-flash-media-video

The link that provided the code for flipping camera in flash in to mirror effect so that user might able to see them in the camera in the right position but not reflected.

The code is successful to flip the camera into Mirror effect.

Feb 1st - 3th 2014

Our game that provided shuffle text and user might need to differentiate the correct words and wrong words which relevant to the image. User tap on the correct words to gain their healthbar, while if user tap on the wrong words to lost their point in the healthbar. For shuffle text, I have to use two array to store the good words and the bad words. Then I will shuffle them and randomize them to display on the stage. 

In the research of my coding, I found a website consist a clear tutorial on the Array and how it function. 

Link : http://www.kirupa.com/flash/arrays_in_AS3.htm

and the other link.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11980657/as3-random-array-randomize-array-actionscript-3

Therefore, I have tried to shuffle on One Array. Then I also found the other tutorial to random shuffle on the good Array and the Bad Array which exactly the source that I want.

However, I have tried alot of testing about  the array, but the result always failed. Therefore I have think about the backup plan, is to put each of the text in one frame by one frame and gotoAndPlay each of the words to display. But it is very inconvenience and very hard to differentiate which the correct and wrong function and the symbol inside the flash might not easy to handle. Therefore, I asked the Yi Wei about the code which posted in below.

The link that Yi Wei has gave me.

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-how-to-randomly-shuffle-an-array-in-as3--active-8776

I will try my best to understand it. 

Jan 29th - Jan 30th 2014

Instead using the conductive fabric, I suggested using Conductive Pen or ink to paint on the glove so that the wire won't tie a knot, just like the image below. 

However, the price of the pen is expensive and we don't know whether is it available in Malaysia. But due to time limitation, we don't have the time to wait for shipping and the ink can't stay on the wool. To connect the Arduino Gemma,  I found a long cable in my house which is half of my body length. My teammates was very kind to help me to find codes and test out. Charissa helped me to connect the Arduino Gemma to Arduino Software, Abu helped me to code the camera whereas Estee sewing the glove for testing the sensor. 

Jan 28th 2014

Since we having CNY holiday on Thursday until next Tuesday (30 Jan - 4 Feb) and our alpha test falls on the next wednesday, 5 Feb, we done some testing in the IIS. Estee and Abu was measuring the thickness of our board and testing the camera placement. I was doing the technical part, the coding and Charissa was designing the graphics.

To start the coding part, I have a clear direction on what I should do. So that I had listed down the steps for myself to follow.

1. To code the health bar,  using keyCode as a click. In this case I had set two keyCode which are spacebar and arrow down. Once we tap on the spacebar the yellow field will increase until it reach the limits. The same goest with the green bar.

2. Need to find out how to store the content of the sliding words. Perhaps I will use Array and switch case to do it . Array, to store the content while switch case is to identify which word is true and which is false. The correct words the user tap on so the healthbar will increase while the wrong word that they tap on the healthbar will decline.

3. Put in the time limit. Once Time's up then I will addchild another scene for them to capture their picture.

4. Connect the flash to processing and arduino.

5. Store the input of category that user has hashtag, connects the camera and capture user image then save in a file.

The progress of the coding was around 15% , I had discussed with my content leader as how many user tap on to reach the category of bad, middle and best. So that we came out the overall is 50 taps. Within 10 taps is the bad category; within 11-31 is the middle category which 32-50 is the best category. Then I also try to input the graphic UI which Charissa has design. The challenge was this is the gradient health bar which I had no idea how to do it. So that I came out an idea, I will place a box on top of the gradient health bar so that every user tap, the box will decrease and it showing the health bar increasing.