Month: April 2023

Session Number	5
Week Number	6
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	5
What was your overall goal for this week?	To fix all the bugs that have been plaguing us as well as upload all art and work on the rest of the sound effects that we might need

Work Tasks Game Design

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/24	I fixed an issue with the level-up system so that it actually adds to the amount of defense health or attack	1 hr	This was a best practice because it required problem-solving to figure out why this was a problem in the first place.
4/25	I started building the credits screen of our game, including a way to get there from the menu	1 hr	This was a best practice because I didn’t use any tutorials to do this, I tried to do it based off my previous experience
4/26	Finished making the buttons and individual scenes for the credits screen. The Credits are now completely ready for people to add to them	1 hr	Im not sure how this was a best practice, I was just continuing where I left on the day before so by that logic it could be the same best practice.
4/27	I added sound effects to all the buttons in the credits, however, I had a bug that only played the sound effects on the back button.	1 hr	This was a best practice because I had to problem solve to figure out the issue, however I still don’t know why this is an issue and I can’t figure it out.
4/28	Since Aiden finished and published the combat system, I started working on the level up system, where it can make your stats better after each fight.	1 hr	This is a best practice since there are not tutorials on this type of level up system that I could find, so I had to figure out what I was doing

Session Number 5
Week Number 6
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? To practice for the Bridge Music project,

Work Tasks School of Rocks

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/24	We decided to play Halo On Fire but Double speed to get good at it. Then we went through our Bridge Song, for the concert this Friday (hopefully you can go to that)	1 hr	This is a best practice because we made the song harder for us to play, so that we could get better at it.
4/25	For most of the period, someone had stolen our practice room, so we practiced Halo on Fire since it was around the amount of time it would take for the beginning smart goal stuff to be done, and then Connor and I showed each other some things we had been doing for Game Design as well as some solo projects.	1 hr	I don’t think that there really was a best practice on this day, we weren’t really sure what to work on and so we didn’t do a whole lot.
4/26	Since the room was stolen from us again, I worked on some solo songs, that I had been working on at home. And we practiced through Halo On Fire, since again that was the most amount of time that we had.	1 hr	This was more of a best practice because I worked through some mixing problems with the bass and drums for one of my songs.
4/27	Since again the room was stolen from us. I worked on some solo music, specifically one song that has both 4/4 time signatures and 5/4 times signatures going on at the same time.	1 hr	This was a best practice because while I was working on this song, Grifin told me more about Garageband/Logic Pro so I got better at GarageBand
4/28	We worked on Halo on Fire (it is are new warmup song now) then We worked on making the Pirates song (SMART GoAL) and actual cohesive song	1 hr	This was a best practice because we collaborated together

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Session Number 5
Week Number 5
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? To start working on the level-up system and the skill points

Work Tasks Game Design

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/17	after we shared the games we worked on updating Trello	1 hr
4/18	I tried to create a new shop group with the attribute points, but I accidentally created a massive issue with plastic SCM	1 hr
4/19	I spent the entire period figuring out how to fix the issue, and I solved it by changing the name of a file.	1 hr
4/20	I worked on completing the attribute points economy system and making the UI how I wanted it	1 hr
4/21	I worked on adding more sound effects including a rat scream, among others	1 hr

Session Number 5
Week Number 5
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? To really hammer out Halo on Fire (I know it’s taken a while) and also expand upon the song that we are doing for the production blog post.

Work Tasks School of Rock

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/17	We worked entirely on Halo On Fire hammering out the solo and the timing of the ending, as well as adding so harmonies.	1 hr
4/18	We worked on the Pirate song (the one for the blog post) Specifically spicing up chord progressions.	1 hr
4/19	we fixed the blog posts, however, it took a ludicrous amount of time for some reason to upload the video from my phone into google drive.  And I couldn’t leave it to do its thing because whenever it fell asleep it stopped uploading. So that was all we did.	1 hr
4/20	Connor wasn’t here today so we jammed for the whole period, and came up with some new ideas for songs	1 hr
4/21	Connor again wasn’t here so we went through some of the things that we jammed through, and refined them.	1 hr

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SUMMARY

Focus / Instrument

guitar

Intention (SMART Goal)

By May 5th we will have recorded a song with multiple guitar parts, and bass drums and mixed it. I will focus on making chord progressions more interesting in a metal/rock song.

PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY

Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)

Write solo songs even while in a band, even if they won’t fit with the band

Don’t let people influence what you do or don’t make in terms of style of music

a lot of music comes out of a bad place

Training Source(s)

Learn multiple ways to play each chord

endless amount of combinations for the same three chords

triads

sevenths

rearranging the nots in different patterns

Learn chord scales

change up the chords until it sounds good

SMART Goal Schedule

Rough phone recording of the idea for the song, April 14th

The entire song is figured out, and the structure of the song is completed on April 21st

The song will be recorded and sent for mixing on April 28th

I finished the Mixed version of the song. May 5th

PRODUCTION

SMART Goal Starting Point Evidence

First Recording

SMART Goal Ending Point Evidence

Last recording

POST-PRODUCTION – REFLECTION

21st Century Skills

Ways of Thinking (Creativity, Innovation, Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving)

We wrote a song which meant we had to use creativity and also problem-solving- because Connor PUT HIS GUITAR IN THE SHOP. So we had to evolve and adapt to this new situation.

Ways of Working (Communication & Collaboration)

Since we were functioning as a band. This required a lot of collaboration and Communication to make a song

Tools for Working (Info & Media Literacy)

We used GarageBand to record and we got better and more efficient at using Midi Drums. We also recorded in record time for recording and mixing.

Ways of Living in the World (Life & Career)

Communicating effectively is a must-have skill in the professional world.

Reactions to the Final Version

Don’t have any yet we getting there

Self-Evaluation of Final Version

I am very happy with the final version, especially with all the complications involved. The mix is very good and for only taking two days to record I think we did pretty good

Grammar and Spelling

Grammarly

Editor

Connor

Session Number 5
Week Number 4
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? My overall goal was to get all the scenes into the game, even if they aren’t finished so that we have a basic layout of the game.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/10	We Ran through Halo On Fire and I finally learned the ending of my solo. We also practiced through multiple times the song that Connor and I are playing for the Bridge.	1 hr
4/11	We improvised through a song that we had worked on a little bit and recorded that for the earliest version of our production cycle.	1 hr
4/12	We worked on a song for Jazz band specifically the solo section that Connor and I have. We also ran through Halo On Fire trying to perfect it.	1 hr
4/13	We ran exclusively through Halo On Fire, really focusing on timing and keeping in time with the metronome, also we decided to add some harmonies at the end of the song.	1 hr
4/14	We worked on Solos for Connor and I for the Bridge Music Project song and made sure the timing is right, and that it lasts for the right amount of time.	1 hr

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Session Number 5
Week Number 3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 5
What was your overall goal for this week? 5

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/10	I made the main menu, I didn’t finish it but I was close.	1 hr
4/11	I finished the main menu and uploaded the art we had for the shop and I didn’t get it to work since the buttons were in the wrong place	1 hr
4/12	I finished the shop completely you still don’t get items from it, but I have to wait for the stats. Also made sure the transition from the menu to shop	1 hr
4/13	I started working on all the sound effects that we are gonna need in the game. I also added the art for the shop items into the game. I finished the button sounds for the main menu.	1 hr
4/14	I finished adding the art for the shop and started researching how to make a level-up system that changes visuals based on what your stats are.	1 hr

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